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In a Florence library, a 1551 astronomy book held handwritten notes that went unnoticed for centuries; a historian recognised them as Galileo’s writing from around 1590A historian in Florence has discovered handwritten annotations believed to be Galileo Galilei’s in a 1551 copy of Ptolemy’s Almagest. The d...- Quote of the day by Nicolaus Copernicus: "Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars".Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who changed how people understand space. He introduced the heliocentric model, which says the S...
- Quote of the Day by Roman astronomer Ptolemy: ‘Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow at my pleasure…’Claudius Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer, found solace in the stars. He believed human life was brief but observing the cosmos offered a ...
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