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Stars in His Eyes

Today’s post is from guest author Margaret Clifton, science reference librarian.
Four hundred years ago, in March of 1610, a pamphlet-like little book was published in Venice. The title page, as translated from New Latin*, sums up its contents with unabashed enthusiasm:
“Revealing great, unusual, and
remarkable spectacles, opening these
to the consideration of every man,
and especially of philosophers
and [...]

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