A 17th-century Galileo manuscript proving the Earth isn't the center of the universe has been deemed a 20th-century forgery:
A 17th-Century Galileo Manuscript Proving the Earth Isn’t the Center of the Universe Has Been Deemed a 20th-Century ForgeryA manuscript once attributed to Galileo Galilei, now believed tp be a 20th-century forgery. Courtesy of the University of Michigan Library.one of the great treasures. That is, until recently, when an expert on the 17th-century astronomer discovered that the document is a 20th-century fake.
Galileo’s revelation would, in due time, have profound implications on our understanding of the universe. And the document, according to the university, was thought to be among the first pieces of “observational data that showed objects orbiting a body other than the earth.” The researcher, who is working on a book about Galileo, found there was no record of the manuscript in Italian archives. In fact, there was no record of the document at all before 1934, when it was acquired at auction by a Detroit businessman.
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