Last week, the blog has been silent, because exposure of the preparation of Starry Messenger Galileo Galilei (This year marks the four hundred years of its publication) to the Palazzo Reale in Milan, where the book will remain on display until June 27 .
Here some pictures of the event:
http://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/06/15/foto/galileo_i_400_anni_del_sidereus_nuncius-4860918/1/
What better opportunity then to talk about Schiaparelli bibliographer?
The love of books went with our all his life. In the "Letter to biographical Onorato Roux" Schiaparelli even remember reading books of elementary schools, "an old book found in the house" entitled to use the geography of the Principles and another book of geography, anonymous, where "in the description I saw in Milan For the first time, named the Astronomical Observatory of Brera, with which I was later to wider knowledge ".
A worker of the furnace of his father, whose name was Miglietti, then lent to the News Little John astronomical adapted to common usage written by Antonio Cagnoli Verona. This book gave an astronomer at the future, "the first systematic and comprehensive idea of \u200b\u200bAstronomy.
Schiaparelli was very attached to his books: take note of what they buy, he often notes, the price and, before leaving for their stay in Berlin, you take care of all those who had given back in loan to his friends.
And, when he became director at the Brera Observatory Library buys for a precious incunabula, we will discuss this yet.
Credits: The Republic online library of the Astronomical Observatory of Brera
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