THE SIDEREAL MESSENGER

original: "Sidereus Nuncius"

Unfolding great and very wonderful sights, and proposing them to the consideration of every man, but especially of philosophers and astronomers; which have been observed by

GALILEO GALILEI

Patrician of Florence, Public Mathematician at the University of Padua,

With the aid of a SPYGLASS

original: "Perspicilli." At this time, the word "telescope" had not yet been coined; Galileo refers to his instrument as a "perspicillum" or "occhiale."

lately devised by him, in the surface of the Moon, in innumerable Fixed Stars, in the Milky Way, in Nebulous Stars, but especially in

FOUR PLANETS

Flying around the star of JUPITER at unequal intervals and periods with wonderful swiftness; which, unknown to anyone until this day, the author recently discovered for the first time, and determined to name the

MEDICEAN STARS

Galileo named the moons of Jupiter after his patrons, the Medici family, specifically the four brothers: Cosimo, Francesco, Carlo, and Lorenzo.