[meteorite-list] Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan"

From: Tim Heitz <midwestmeteor_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 17:24:20 -0400
Message-ID: <98a7b1f0-caa5-c0b4-1c7c-99ec47726574_at_earthlink.net>

Very interesting, Thanks Paul

Tim

On 9/9/2018 3:57 PM, John Lutzon via Meteorite-list wrote:
> Thanks paul - good get...
> And thanks to Nick Wilding!!!
> Also, thanks to all ebay watchers
> who find the "f''n" scammers.
> Kudos to all..
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul via Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2018 3:44 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan"
>
>
> The story of the, at first, successful forgery of
> Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius Martayan and Lan" is quite
> interesting. Below, there are an interesting lecture
> about, which is initially overly academic, and an
> open access book to read about the forgery. It is
> interesting how the expectation of a "great discovery"
> might have led expert to overlook some "red flags"
> about its authenticity.
>
> Some articles are:
>
> A Very Rare Book
> The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo?s pivotal treatise.
> By Nicholas Schmidl, The New Yorker, December 13, 2018
> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/a-very-rare-book
>
> How a Book Thief Forged a Rare Edition of Galileo?s Scientific
> Work, and Almost Pulled it Off in Books | February 11th, 2014
> http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/how-a-book-thief-forged-a-rare-edition-of-galileos-scientific-work-and-almost-pulled-it-off.html
>
> Unmasking a Galileo Forgery
> Albert Van Helden, First Published July 25, 2014
> https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828614537950
> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021828614537950
>
> An online lecture mostly about this forgery,
>
> "Fake, Facsimile, Print: The Techniques and Technologies
> of Textual Reproduction, 1450 To The Future.
> CAS MillerComm 2015 Nick Wilding
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqT_73XdaSY
>
> The open-access book is:
>
> A Galileo Forgery: Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius
> Horst Bredekamp,Irene Br?ckle & Paul Needham. Vol. iii of
> Galileo?s O, edited by & Horst Bredekamp (Walter de Gruyter,
> Berlin, 2014). Pp. 102. ISBN 978-3-11-035464-5.
> https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/416084
> https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/416084?format=EBOK
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
>
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Received on Sun 09 Sep 2018 05:24:20 PM PDT