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The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei

Note 22 — Extract from the Preface of Kepler’s Dioptrics. Augsburg, 1611.

Edward Stafford Carlos translation

Umbistineum. Apparently this is some German word with a Latin ending, such as um-bei-stehn; Kepler fancied that Galileo had discovered two satellites of Mars.

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