QuoteQuest“Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Translation by Stillman Drake in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957)
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Galilei, Galileo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
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