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Interestingly, Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius mentions "Galileo Galileo" on the cover. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
by LawnboyMax 7y ago
Interestingly, Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius mentions "Galileo Galileo" on the cover.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius
I wonder if this is at all related to the question asked in this article.
- schoen 7y agoThat looks like the Latin ablative case, governed by the preposition "a" in the previous line. In Latin you can see many different forms of a name depending on its context in a sentence (the two most common in books' title pages being the genitive and ablative, roughly meaning 'of' and 'by').