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The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei

Note 3 — THE ASTRONOMICAL MESSENGER

Edward Stafford Carlos translation

The satellites of Jupiter are here called “the Cosmian Stars” in honour of Cosmo de’ Medici, but elsewhere Galileo calls them “the Medicean Stars.” Kepler sometimes calls them “the Medicean Stars,” but more often “satellites.”

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