Word: zsolt
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...STAR-GAZER-Zsolt de Harsanyi -Putnam...
Hungarian Zsolt de Harsanyi begins his story in 1587, when Galileo Galilei was 23 and threadbare, harassed by a termagant mother, a frayed father, spiteful fellow students at the University of Pisa. The well-known Leaning Tower experiment is handled by Harsanyi with considerable irony. When Galileo, then a young professor at Pisa, proved before a great crowd that objects of different weights (even though of identical shape and size) had exactly the same rate of fall, almost everyone was disappointed. "Is this all?" said the boys. But Galileo became a famous nuisance...
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