Discovering a Forgery: Jupiter’s real moons and U-M’s fake Galileo manuscript

In 1610, Galileo Galilei made a revolutionary discovery: moons orbiting Jupiter. One of the first astronomical discoveries made using a telescope, this event was critical to reshaping human understanding of the cosmos.  Galileo drafted notes on his observations of the moons, for later publication in a work called the Sidereus Nuncius.  In 1938, in a...

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