* Astronomy

Long-lost illustrations by Galileo of the moon's surface as he saw it through his telescope have come to light after four centuries.
The five watercolours are in Galileo's copy of Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger) in which he gives details of his revolutionary "celestial discoveries". The work was crucial in overturning the belief that the sun revolved around the Earth and provoked a showdown with the Vatican that ended in imprisonment for heresy.

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