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The Messenger

Piece honoring the Mercury MESSENGER mission created for my 7,000th tweet. The text is taken from the title page of a translated version of Galileo’s “Sidereal Messenger.” Background image was taken by MESSENGER on October 18, 2014. Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences: Redacted Poem
Sidereal Messenger: Redacted Poem #2
Sidereal Messenger: Redacted Poem #1
From "The Sidereal Messenger," the English translation of Galileo Galilei's "Sidereus Nuncius," published in 1610. The stars redacting part of the original text are from Galileo's own star drawings; I have sliced the original drawings and reassembled the pieces at random so the patterns are no longer discernible.