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galileo galilei - dates to confirm
Ernie Wright wrote:
Galileo announced his observation of the phases of Venus in a letter to Giuliano de Medici dated 11 December 1610. He hid the announcement in the form of an anagram, Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur o y Which incidentally also (mostly) makes sense in Latin: "These unripe things are read in vain by me"--ostensibly an indication of the prematurity of the observations at that time. He wanted to stake a claim to primacy, but the scientist in him wouldn't let him make the claim before he was certain it was right. The 'o' and 'y' are in there just to make the anagram come out right. which when unscrambled is Cynthiae figuras aemulatur mater amorum The mother of love emulates the figures of Cynthia Venus has phases like the Moon This is all from Albert Van Helden's English translation of Sidereus Nuncius. -- Brian Tung The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/ Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/ The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/ My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.html |
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