Scholar discovers handwritten notes by Galileo in old math text book

Trawling through academic archives can be an absolute drag: I've spent weeks up to my neck in old books, microfiche, loose paperwork, and scanned documents looking for a useful tidbit but coming up with bupkis. But every now and then, the digging through history pays off in absolute gold, as University of Milan scholar Ivan Malara recently discovered. — Read the rest

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