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Questo libro documenta il nuovo allestimento permanente del patrimonio mobile dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, che ha riportato alla luce materiali da tempo "invisibili" o poco fruibili, ha riassemblato raccolte di dipinti ottocenteschi precedentemente smembrate, ripercorrendo in parte il progetto espositivo di Adolfo Angeli, Presidente dell'Accademia negli anni Trenta del Novecento. Con testi di: Anna Vittoria Laghi, Lucilla Meloni, Claudio Casini, Linda Pisani, Marco Ciampolini, Giovanna Bombarda, Ines Berti e Giuseppe Canilla.
Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of the moon, and the satellites of Jupiter, observations that forced changes to perceptions of the perfection of the heavens and the centrality of the Earth - the appearance of the little book is regarded as one of the greatest moments in the history of science. It was also a point of change in the life of Galileo himself, propelling him from professor to prophet. But this is not the biography of a mathematician. Certainly he sp...