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Famous, Shrewd, Florentine, Mathematician: Guess Who?
In 1611 an unknown novice recited a poem titled “Sonnet on the Death of the King Henry the Great, and on the Discovery of Some New Planets, or Stars Wandering Around Jupiter, Made this Year by Galileo Galilei, Famous Mathematician of the Grand Duke of Florence”.[1] The occasion was the three-day commemoration of the death…