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Quotation from Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day) by Galileo Galilei
“the Galaxy is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.”
Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), The Starry Messenger, on the Milky Way, trans. Edward Stafford Carlos (1880)
The telescope settles an ancient dispute about the nature of the Milky Way.
Citation: "the Galaxy is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters." — Galileo Galilei, Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), The Starry Messenger, on the Milky Way, trans. Edward Stafford Carlos (1880). (id galileo-selected-writings-q2)
Portrait: Galileo.arp.300pix, Justus Sustermans, Public domain.
