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Astronomy
THE SIDEREAL MESSENGER
Original Latin title: "Sidereus Nuncius." This was the first short astronomical treatise published based on observations made through a telescope.
OF
GALILEO GALILEI
AND A PART OF THE PREFACE TO KEPLER'S DIOPTRICS
Johannes Kepler's "Dioptrice" (1611) provided the theoretical explanation for how the telescope worked, supporting Galileo's practical observations.
CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL ACCOUNT OF GALILEO'S
ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES.
A Translation with Introduction and Notes
BY
EDWARD STAFFORD CARLOS, M.A.
HEAD MATHEMATICAL MASTER IN CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
Christ's Hospital is a historic English school; Carlos was the first to provide a complete English rendering of this foundational scientific text.
An embossed circular seal for Wellesley College.RIVINGTONS
WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON
Oxford and Cambridge
1880
80
The original text uses the Roman numerals MDCCCLXXX for the year 1880.
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