Handwritten Notes Galileo Galileis Discovered in Ancient Astronomy Book

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A researcher assigns notes in a 16th century astronomy book to Galileo. They show the Renaissance scholar as a pious follower of the geocentric world view

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A copy of the Almagesto, by Claudio Ptolemy, published in the Swiss city of Basel in 1551 – with numerous handwritten notes attributable to Galileo Galilei– was discovered by Ivan Malara, a researcher at the University of Milan, Italy, at the Central National Library of Florence. The finding is part of a study initiated more than three years ago, whose purpose was to determine which edition of the astronomical treaty composed in the second centu…