Galileo, title page from Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), Venice, 1610
1610
- Title
- Galileo, title page from Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), Venice, 1610
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Rare Book Photographs
- Identifier
- RB-GG1610a-1
- Dates
- 1610
- Extents
- 1 photographs (negative)
- Abstract
- In the Sidereus Nuncius, Galileo announced to the world the discoveries made with his new telescope or “perspicilli,” especially the “four planets” circling Jupiter--in fact, Jupiter’s moons--which he names the Medicean stars for his patron, Cosimo II de Medici.