Credit: Sailko/CC BY-SA 3.0 The top half of the library's manuscript is the alleged draft of Galileo's letter to the doge of Venice, dated circa August 9, 1609.

A Galileo manuscript was hailed as a ‘treasure.’ Turns out, it’s fake. University of Michigan librarians now believe the document is a counterfeit made by an infamous 20th-century forger ...

This manuscript was one of the University of Michigan Library’s most prized possessions when it was thought to be by Galileo. It was unmasked this summer as a 20th-century forgery, most likely ...

A manuscript once attributed to Galileo Galilei, now believed tp be a 20th-century forgery. Courtesy of the University of Michigan Library.

For nearly a century, the library at the University of Michigan had proudly displayed the so-called "Galileo manuscript" — a document believed to be written by the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei.

A manuscript attributed to Galileo Galilei found to be a forgery in August has led to the discovery that a different, controversial book was authored by the celebrated Italian astronomer.

University of Michigan Libraries announced in August that the prized gem of its astronomy collection, an original manuscript by Galileo Galilei, was actually a forgery following an investigation by ...

The manuscript showed the draft of a letter at the top, and sketches plotting the positions of the moons Galileo discovered around Jupiter — which the university had believed were “the first ...

A manuscript initially believed to have stemmed from Renaissance astronomer Galileo Galilei in the 17th century is now believed to be a forgery that dates back to the 1930s, according to the ...

At the time, the manuscript was accompanied by a now-missing letter from Cardinal Pietro Maffi, then-Archbishop of Pisa, which compared it to two Galileo documents he had in his collection.