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by LawnboyMax 2519 days ago
Interestingly, Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius mentions "Galileo Galileo" on the cover.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius

I wonder if this is at all related to the question asked in this article.

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That looks like the Latin ablative case, governed by the preposition "a" in the previous line. In Latin you can see many different forms of a name depending on its context in a sentence (the two most common in books' title pages being the genitive and ablative, roughly meaning 'of' and 'by').