Galileo
The Eye That Broke the Sky (The Codebreakers)
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Galileo
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Narrated by:
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Melanie Melton
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By:
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James Johnson
About this listen
He pointed the telescope at heaven and saw something the world wasn't ready for.
Galileo Galilei didn’t invent the telescope. He weaponized it. In a world where the Earth sat still, the heavens were perfect, and truth came from authority, Galileo saw craters on the Moon, moons orbiting Jupiter, spots on the Sun, and stars packed into what people thought was fog. Then he said so, out loud.
This book walks through the full arc of the man who refused to lie about what he saw, from his early years as a dropout in Pisa to his final years under house arrest. It covers the inventions, the observations, the trial, and the backlash that shook the very center of power.
This is the story of how one man broke the sky and changed everything that came after.
©2025 James Johnson (P)2026 James Johnson