TY - JOUR
AU - Van Helden, Albert
AB - JHA, xxxiv (2003) FROM OCCHIALE TO PRINTED PAGE: THE MAKING OF GALILEO'S SIDEREUS NUNCIUS OWEN GINGERICH, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and ALBERT VAN HELDEN, Utrecht University It is necessary that you make my excuses to their Highnesses since the book is not printed with the magnificence befitting the magnitude of the subject, for the lack of time did not permit it, and I did not want to prolong the publication lest I run the risk that perhaps someone else might have discovered the same and preceded me. And therefore I have published it in the form of an avviso, written for the most part while the previous parts were being printed, with the intent of reprinting it as soon as possible with many additions of other observations. I (Galileo to Cosimo's personal secretary, 19 March 1610) The publication of Galileo's Side reus nuncius or Sidereal messenger in March 1610 was perhaps the single most unexpected event in the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Not only were the astronomical observations reported there entirely unanticipated and arresting in their impact, but their rapid preparation and printing, all in just over six weeks, was a record for any significant 
TI - From OCCHIALE to Printed Page: The Making of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius
JO - Journal for the History of Astronomy
DO - 10.1177/002182860303400301
DA - 2003-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/from-occhiale-to-printed-page-the-making-of-galileo-s-sidereus-nuncius-QPMu4jwKPH
SP - 251
EP - 267
VL - 34
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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