About “Sidereus nuncius magna longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens vnicuique praesertim vero philosophis”
Sidereus Nuncius is a short astronomical treatise written by Galileo Galilei in Neo-Latin and published on March 13, 1610. It was the first scientific work based on telescope observations. The text presents Galileo's findings, including the discovery of the Moon's uneven and mountainous surface, the existence of many stars invisible to the naked eye in the Milky Way and specific constellations, and the identification of the Medicean Stars, which appeared to orbit Jupiter. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1610
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- 1610 · ISBN 9780226279039