NMLP P-038019 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Sidereus Nuncius

Galileo Galilei · Tommaso Baglioni, Venice · 1610

The lunar images in the Venice sheets are etchings (copperplate), not woodcuts, and signature C, which carries the bulk of them, is made up of two half-sheets — evidence that the plates were printed separately from, and later than, the text

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038019 for "Sidereus Nuncius" by Galileo Galilei (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038019, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).