Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger (1610s): Real or forgery?
Channel: LaTeX Ninjaing & Digital Humanities / Sarah Lang
Date: 2023-09-16

Galileo Galilei was a fascinating inventor - so is the history of his book Sidereus Nuncius! Lately, there have been a number of scandals related to it where fake copies were sold for incredible amounts of money. Our speaker Dr. Megan Piorko's doctoral advisor, Prof. Nick Wilding, was involved in solving the mystery!