Hop along, Frog and Toad. Olympia Family Theater has turned its attention to a new hero: 17th-century scientist Galileo Galilei. “Starry Messenger,” opening Friday (Jan. 27), telescopes the ...

Galileo Galilei, “martyr of science” in the ... Then, in 1610, he burst onto the international stage with “The Starry Messenger,” announcing his discovery, via telescope, of the craters ...

Then, in 1610, on the occasion of his publication of The Starry Messenger, which detailed his telescopic findings, Galileo dedicated to Cosimo II something far greater than a book: the very moons ...

Galileo Galilei was an Italian mathematician born ... many of his observations in the classic work Sidereus Nuncius (“Starry Messenger”), published in 1610, the first scientific work based ...

Galileo Galilei was the first scientist to recognise the ... By 12 March 1610, 550 printed copies of his work Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) had been dispatched into the world. This treatise ...

In this turbulent era, Galileo Galilei would become Europe's most ... NARRATOR: Sidereus Nuncius, The Starry Messenger was an enthusiastic announcement of telescopic astronomy.

In fact, a manuscript copy of “Starry Messenger” in Florence’s National Library ... In the brief correspondence of Galileo Galilei and Margherita Sarrocchi, both the cooperative nature of the new ...

The library knows Galileo sent the fine paper copy from Venice to a monk who helped him name the publication - which translates from Latin to “starry messenger.” Dean found handwritten notes ...

Within a year, however, Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) had copied the design ... He reported these discoveries in his “Starry Messenger.” That epochal book, which Galileo rushed into print, appeared on ...