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| Title | The Controversy on the comets of 1618 |
| Author | Galileo Galilei |
| Translated by | Stillman Drake, Charles Donald O'Malley |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 6, 2007 |
| Length | 380 pages |
| Subjects | Comets |
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