University of Michigan library announces Galileo manuscript was a fake - The Washington Post

For nearly a century, University of Michigan librarians thought their Galileo manuscript was “one of the great treasures” of their collection.

Comment on this story Using his newly built telescope, Galileo Galilei gazed up at the sky in January 1610, spotted several bright objects around Jupiter and spent weeks plotting how they changed po… [+4247 chars]

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