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Galileo’s New Universe (9781933771595) was positively reviewed in the Waco Tribune-Herald (Waco, TX; circ. 40,861): http://www.wacotrib.com/featr/content/features/stories/2009/10/31/10312009wacstargazer.html

*The article was syndicated to: The Lamar Ledger (Lamar, CO; circ. 2,353)

Laurence Marschall, coauthor of Galileo’s New Universe (9781933771595), will be interviewed on WGET’s “The Seminary Explores,” aired in South Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland, on Nov.22.

Galileo’s New Universe (9781933771595) was mentioned in Capital City Weekly (Juneau; circ. 15,500) in conjunction with a Washington D.C. lecture Oct.14, 2009. http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/100709/new_502009648.shtml

Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595) was positively reviewed in Choice (circ. 3,050), the ALA’s magazine for college and university library collections. The magazine recommended the book and wrote, “The last part of each chapter is well worth the price of the book, for the authors summarize what we know about those topics today. Using an informal writing style and well-chosen analogies, Maran (former NASA scientist) and Marschall (physics, Gettysburg College; The Supernova Story, CH, Feb’89, 26-3263) have chosen the right facets of current knowledge that will appeal to readers.”

Galileo’s New Universe (9781933771595) was reviewed in The Key Reporter, the quarterly newsletter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The writer, Jay Psachoff, says “Maran and Marschall’s Galileo’s New Universe is an excellent way, as they put it, for readers to be ‘celebrating the telescope’s 400^th anniversary.’”

Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595) will be in the August issue of BBC’s Sky at Night magazine.

Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595) was highlighted in David Bradley’s Sciencebase: Sci-Tech News & Views (6,000 subscribers). http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/summer-science-books.html

Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595) was reviewed in the May 2009 Institute of Physics newsletter for the Lancaster, PA, and Cumbria, PA, branch.

Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595) was excerpted in the May/June 2009 issue of StarDate magazine (circ. 10,000), published by the University of Texas’ McDonald Observatory.

Dr. Laurence Marschall and Stephen P. Maran, co-authors of Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595) presented and signed books at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA, on April 28, 2009.

Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595) was mentioned in an April 2, 2009, Philadelphia Inquirer (circ. 300,674) article: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20090402_Galileo_s_telescope__here_in_Philadelphia.html.

Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595) was positively reviewed in the March 30, 2009, issue of Publisher’s Weekly.

“Stephen P. Maran and Laurence A. Marschall. BenBella (Perseus, dist.), $14.95 paper (224p) ISBN 9781933771595
On the occasion of the telescope’s 400th birthday, author and former NASA scientist Maran (Astronomy for Dummies) and physics professor Marschall (The Supernova Story) examine how Galileo’s invention led to ground-breaking discoveries and the confirmation of the heliocentric Copernican hypothesis. Alternating between Galileo’s perspective and that of 21st century astrophysics, Maran and Marschall dramatize the “profound novelty” of Galileo’s first steps and the enormous distance we’ve come since: astronomer s now collect more information in an “eyeblink” than Galileo could in three years of systematic observation. Though a Dutchman fashioned the first rudimentary telescope (“two disks of glass and a piece of lead pipe”), the improvements Galileo developed in 1609 turned the humble spyglass (a military and shipping aid) into a precision instrument for studying the heavens. Galileo’s first astonishing discovery was that the Moon, previously thought to be an ethereal body entirely unlike the earth, had a landscape. Just two years later he was observing sun spots and tracking Venus. A charming peek into astronomy’s “family album,” this lively history is ideal for armchair scientists and stargazers. (Mar.)”

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Laurence Marschall, coauthor of Galileo’s New Universe (BenBella; 9781933771595), was interviewed on the Blue Dot Report, a show produced by Northstate Public Radio, KCHO, 91.7 and KFPR, 88.9 FM, Northern California.