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  <dc:title>Letter from G[alileo] G[alilei] to Padre Benedetto Castelli, dated at Florence</dc:title>
  <dc:description>A letter, attributed to Galileo, in which the author attempts to reconcile the Copernican System with scripture, with reference to a passage in Joshua. Includes extensive annotations and emendments throughout. On the second page of the letter, 'false' has been crossed out, and the phrase 'hanno aspetto diverso dal vero' [differing from the truth] has been added to a passage regarding the content of scripture.

This holograph and its significance is discussed in the Notes and Records of the Royal Society: Camerota, Michele; Giudice, Franco; Ricciardo, Salvatore. 'The reappearance of Galileo's original Letter to Benedetto Castelli', Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, volume 73, issue 1 (2019), pp. 11-28.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>21 December 1613</dc:date>
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