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...those with a passion for rare books, delving into an original work of Galileo has always offered unparalleled insight. There is no more immediate way to bring his inquisitive spirit to life than to view an original printing of Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger, 1610), in which he describes the contours of the moon as seen through his newly invented telescope, or to marvel at a first edition of Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), his challenge to the Ptolemaic view of an Earth-centered universe...
...Berlin's Humboldt University and author of a new book entitled Galilei der Künstler (Galileo the Artist), says we can. He and other experts in Germany and Italy have concluded that five watercolor sketches of a mustard-colored moon drawn in a printer's proof of Sidereus Nuncius are by Galileo's own hand. The first printing of the legendary treatise included copper engravings of the moon believed to be based on different (now lost) Galileo sketches. But the copy studied by Bredekamp, which was recently unveiled in the city of Padua, Italy, where Galileo made his initial...
...York-based rare-books dealer Richard Lan, who now owns it, Bredekamp and his associates examined the drawings over the course of two years, dating paper and ink and comparing brushstrokes with other known Galileo sketches. Bredekamp believes that Galileo, who was overseeing the printing of Sidereus Nuncius, drew the moons on the pages of a proof of the work where copper engravings would subsequently be added for the first edition. Lan, who won't divulge further details about the previous owner, says the original drawings make the specimen "an acquisition of a lifetime," since "so little related...
...follows: Joseph Lendon Snedeker '25 Mary Miss Zabelle Bayentz Gabriel B. K. Little 1T.S. Elizabeth Miss Dorothy Leadbetter Herod Philip Wardner '24 Shepherds Lawrence Apsey '24 R. A. Zinn '24, G. H. Humphreys '25 Kings R. de S. Childs '24 E. R. Childs '24, Frederick Fish '25 Nuncius Joseph Belser...
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