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Did Galileo Own the Library’s Copy of ‘The Starry Messenger’?

Posted by: Carla D. Hayden

Asking intriguing questions can be a great way to encourage research and creative thinking. The answer to this particular question was at first disappointing. Two experts, a historian and a rare book librarian, both said that although Galileo wrote “The Starry Messenger,” he did not himself own the copy of the book now in the …