Galileo's Starry Messenger

I recently came across another snippet about John Donne & stars, & another alleged meeting with one of the stars of astronomy - in this case none other than Galileo himself. It comes from The Astronomer's Faith, a review by John F. Haught of Galileo Watcher of the Skies by David Wootton.

The poet John Donne, Wootton says, grasped the real implications of Copernicanism right away. In 1612, only two years after the publication of The Starry Messenger, and—as Wootton reasonably speculates—after having possibly met with Galileo in Venice several years earlier, Donne composed his famous poem “An Anatomy of the World.”

Link
Sidereus Nuncius: The Starry Messenger
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