Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD BY BUZZ ALDRIN -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- TIME LINE -- MAP OF ITALY -- 1 Science and Astronomy Before Galileo -- Men and Women of Letters -- Lunar Observation, Part One -- Using Raw Data -- 2 Beginnings -- Cook a Renaissance Meal -- The Pendulum -- Make a Pulsilogia -- Specific Gravity -- 3 Position at Pisa -- Gravity Experiment -- Properties of the Ellipse -- Lodestone Experiment -- Lunar Observation, Part Two -- Liquid Density -- 4 The Telescope -- Aperture Experiment -- Cast a Shadow -- Floating Needle Experiment -- Painting Light and Shadow -- 5 The Storm Builds -- Perception of Illumination -- Roll of the Dice -- Make a Care Package for Galileo -- 6 The Two Systems -- Relative Motion Experiment -- Projectile Motion Experiment -- 7 Galileo's Last Days -- Accelerated Motion -- Beam Strength Game -- Vibrating Strings -- Charting the Cycloid Curve -- RESOURCES -- Popes of Galileo's Time -- The Grand Dukes of Tuscany During Galileo's Time -- Glossary of Key Terms -- Glossary of Key People -- Glossary of Key Places in Italy -- Galileo's Key Writings -- Web Sites -- Planetariums and Astronomy/Space Museums -- Selected Bibliography -- INDEX -- Other Books From Chicago Review Press.