@helsouth The nice thing is history remembers them as the Galilean moons.
Galileo auctioned off naming rights for Jupiter's moons. Modern equiv to "Medicea Sidera" wld be "Coca Cola moons"https://twitter.com/hist_astro/status/642777466763874304 …
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@helsouth (You can easily find bits and pieces of Galileo's correspondence with the Medici. It's pretty hilarious.)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@helsouth He was definitely a smooth operator when it came to getting sponsors on the hook.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@helsouth (The source I'm thinking of is an article by Richard Westfall. Which I can't find ungated, alas :-( )Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danwwang No, I think you mean the Bloomberg Moons of Jupiter.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@helsouth It was me who needed it ungated :-) It's here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/232790?seq=13#page_scan_tab_contents …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@helsouth Interestingly, as@rmathematicus points out, my use of "auction" isn't right. 1/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@helsouth By the time of the moons, Galileo was firmly in the Grand Duke Cosimo's patronage. 2/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@michael_nielsen@hist_astro@BeineckeLibrary He didn't actually auction off the rights to the names he offered Cosimo a choice of names -
@rmathematicus@hist_astro@BeineckeLibrary I was speaking (mostly) figuratively.
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