Sidereus Nuncius, or
Sidereal Messenger, an astronomical treatise published by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610. The National Policeâs historical patrimony department has been investigating the workâs disappearance since 2018. According to specialists who spoke to EL PAÃS, the Latin treatise is worth around â¬800,000. In the work, Galileo describes the astronomical discoveries he made after building and perfecting a telescope in 1609, including that the moon is mountainous, that Jupiter has four moons and that the Milky Way is made up of separate stars.
It took the National Library four years and four months to report the theft â even though the technical department had known that the original had been replaced by a copy since May 2014, when book restorers discovered it by accident during a program to preserve old books from acid-deterioration called IFADU. But despite this discovery, in these four intervening years, the forged copy of
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