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Galileo Galilei - Galileo affair, Copernicanheliocentrism,Galilean moons, Geocentric model, Ganymede (moon), ThomasHarriot, Trajectory, Galilean invariance, Galileosparadox,Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Two NewSciences, Galilean transformation, Phases of Venus,Galileo(spacecraft), Galileo (satellite navigation) ... Read more

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Profiles in Colonial History provides short biographical sketches of six important figures in our American history. they span the 200-year colonial period, from the attempted English settlement at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, through the American Revolution.

Some of these people you have heard of, such as Patrick Henry; others may be new to you. All made important contributions to the building of our nation.

180 pages with 30 illustrations. ... Read more

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Twenty years before the founding of Jamestown in Virginia, Sir Walter Ralegh sent more than 100 men, women and children to an uncertain fate in his New World colony that he called "Virginia." Due to unforseen and tragic circumstances, those settlers were left for three years abandoned at Roanoke Island in modern-day North Carolina.

This book tells the full story of English attempts at establishing a New World settlement and puts the attempts by Sir Walter Ralegh in a longer-term context. It also recounts what befell the "Lost Colonists" and offers the most likely theory of what was their ultimate fate. ... Read more