The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei
The Sidereal Messenger is Galileo's report, published in Venice in 1610, of what he saw through the telescope he had built and turned to the sky. In a few dozen pages he describes the mountainous, cratered surface of the moon, a multitude of stars invisible to the naked eye, the Milky Way resolved into stars, and four moons circling Jupiter, which he named after the Medici family and dedicated to Cosimo II. Edward Stafford Carlos's translation adds an introduction and an extract from the preface of Kepler's Dioptrice of 1611, where Kepler responds to the discovery. The short book changed astronomy and Galileo's life. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the opening pages free.
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