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Book/Printed Material Works of Galileo Galilei, Part 3, Volume 5, Astronomy: Observations and Related Calculations about the Medicean Planets. Osservazioni e calcoli relativi ai Pianeti Medicei

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Title

  • Works of Galileo Galilei, Part 3, Volume 5, Astronomy: Observations and Related Calculations about the Medicean Planets.

Other Title

  • Osservazioni e calcoli relativi ai Pianeti Medicei

Summary

  • This manuscript contains observations and calculations made by the Italian scientist and mathematician Galileo Galilei (1564--1642) on the so-called Medicean Planets-the satellites rotating around the planet Jupiter that Galileo discovered using the powerful telescope he invented and built in late 1609. Galileo made these notes in the course of his intense astronomical studies of early 1610, when he was in the last months of his tenure of the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua. These observations were then synthesized in his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry messenger), published in Venice in March 1610. The codex also contains, at c. 18r, a signed letter to Galileo from his friend and student Benedetto Castelli (1578-1643), in which Castelli sends Galileo his own observations of the planets. On c. 54v is a drawing by Galileo of a landscape with sails on water.

Names

  • Castelli, Benedetto, 1578-1643 Contributor.
  • Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1610 to 1642]

Headings

  • -  Italy--Veneto--Padua
  • -  1610 to 1642
  • -  Codex
  • -  Galilean satellites
  • -  Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
  • -  Planets
  • -  Solar system

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource at: National Central Library of Florence.
  • -  Content in Italian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Galilean Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667673

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Castelli, Benedetto, Contributor, and Galileo Galilei. Works of Galileo Galilei, Part 3, Volume 5, Astronomy: Observations and Related Calculations about the Medicean Planets. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1642, 1610] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667673/.

APA citation style:

Castelli, B. & Galilei, G. (1610) Works of Galileo Galilei, Part 3, Volume 5, Astronomy: Observations and Related Calculations about the Medicean Planets. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1642] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667673/.

MLA citation style:

Castelli, Benedetto, Contributor, and Galileo Galilei. Works of Galileo Galilei, Part 3, Volume 5, Astronomy: Observations and Related Calculations about the Medicean Planets. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1642, 1610] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667673/>.