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The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei

Note 5 — THE ASTRONOMICAL MESSENGER

Edward Stafford Carlos translation

The words used by Galileo for “telescope” are perspicillum, specillum instrumentum, organum, and occhiale (Ital.). Kepler uses also oculare tubus, arundo dioptrica. The word “telescopium” is used by Gassendi, 1647.

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