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"Sidereus Nuncius" by Galileo Galilei

Tretis de Lumen

Written in 1610, Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger) was Galileo first earthshaking book. In addition to offering rich and detailed evidence for Copernican heliocentrism, this treatise documented Galileo's discovery of the four moons circling Jupiter, his first fruits from his newly invented telescope. Sidereus Nuncius contains an introductory passage about the telescope, a section on Galileo's lunar observations, a description of how the planets and the fixed stars appeared through his telescope, a daily log of sightings of Jupiter and its satellites. It also contains Galileo's refutations of the arguments against Copernicus's work in De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium.

Height 2.9 in

Mass 216 g

Fired High

Glaze None

Started 8/1/99

Finished 2/26/00

Style Carbon60

Series Tretis de Lumen

Detailed images during Fabricaion Stage