“To touch something Galileo himself touched…its pretty good.”
Linda Hall is now the only library in the world with all three original versions.
The ordinary paper copy of the Venice edition has even been hand-corrected by Galileo himself.
Credit:Courtesy Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology
To touch something Galileo himself touched, yeah, its pretty good, Dean told KSHB.
I think [its] really thrilling and kind of gives.
.an indication of why people love old and rare books so much because its almost like a time machine.
Courtesy Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology.
It puts you in contact with a past generation.
