A handwritten document thought to have been penned by Galileo Galilei is actually a forgery, the University of Michigan has announced.
The single piece of paper was a jewel of the collection of the University of Michigan Library, according to aBut an internal investigation by a professor of history has found that it's a fake: Watermarks in the paper date back to no earlier than the 18th century, over a hundred years after the death of the famed astronomer.
"It was pretty gut-wrenching when we first learned our Galileo was not actually a Galileo," Donna L. Hayward, the interim dean of Michigan's libraries, toldThe university has had the manuscript since 1938, when it was donated by the trustees of Tracy McGregor, a Detroit businessman who had acquired the document at the auction of another collector in 1934.
The 1934 auction catalog claimed that Cardinal Pietro Maffi , the Archbishop of Pisa, had authenticated the manuscript by comparing it with otherThe top of the manuscript is a draft of a letter that Galileo wrote before a presentation about a new telescope to the Doge of Venice in 1609. The famed astronomer really did write a version of this letter – a final draft is in the State Archive in Venezia, Italy.
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Document supposedly written by Galileo is a fakeThe University of Michigan announced that its supposed Galileo manuscript is a 20th-century forgery.
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