Mooncalf

[nineweaving]

There's a fabulous and monstrous tale in this week's New Yorker.  It seems that a proof copy of Sidereus Nuncius (1610), with Galileo's own ink-wash drawings of the moon, had come into a dealer's hands...Far too good to be true.  I mean good: it fooled Owen Gingerich, the great Copernican, through several very close examinations.  And as I read on

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[kalimac]

I didn't see it until it was pointed out, but I wasn't examining the images that closely. But once you're told where it is ... ouch!

[nineweaving]

My eyes aren't what they were. I should have rummaged out my magnifying glass. But ouch!

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