THE STARRY

MESSENGER

original: "SIDEREUS NUNCIUS"

Revealing great and highly admirable

sights, and proposing them for contemplation

to everyone, but especially to

PHILOSOPHERS and ASTRONOMERS, which were

The surname is misspelled as 'Galileo' rather than 'Galilei' in this first printing.

FLORENTINE PATRICIAN

Public Mathematician of the University of Padua

original: "PERSPICILLI" – Galileo's early term for the telescope.

Recently discovered by him, observed on the FACE OF THE MOON, IN IN-

NUMERABLE FIXED STARS, THE MILKY WAY, AND NEBULOUS STARS,

And especially in

Which revolve around the star of JUPITER at unequal intervals and periods with

marvelous speed; which, known to no one until this

day, the Author recently dis-

covered first; and

Galileo named the moons of Jupiter after his patrons, the Medici family.

AT VENICE, By Tommaso Baglioni. 1610.

With Permission of the Superiors, and Privilege.

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