Galileo moons

Galileo’s best known images of the Moon are five engravings (one of which is a duplicate), that appear in his book Sidereus Nuncius, published in mid-March 1610.

Note: the reproductions shown here are photographic prints from the National Edition of Galileo’s works. At about the 7 o’clock position on E2, E3 and E4 is what looks like the letters “V.T.”. These are presumably the initials of someone who worked on the negatives. These letters do not appear in the printed copies of Sidereus Nuncius.

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