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Historia Coelestis
by John Flamsteed: Rare Book of the Week
March 24, 2025
This week's Rare Book of the Week is copy of the first Astronomer Royal
Astronomicum Caesareum
, One of the Most Stunning Books of the 1500s, Heads to Auction
September 30, 2020
Dallas, TX – “The most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to sixteenth-century science was without doubt the
Galileo’s “Starry Messenger” Facsimile Published
September 13, 2013
In 1609, when Galileo Galilei fashioned a telescope and looked to the heavens, he was the first to see that the surface of our moon is filled with craters, mountains and other imperfections.
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