How long does it take to read The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei?
The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei by Galileo Galilei takes about 2 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 2 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1610. 111 pages, about 30,525 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Digitized facsimile of the 1610 Venice edition of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius from the copy in the Warnock Library; the English translation by Albert Van Helden (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989) and a commentary by Van Helden.
Subjects: Astronomy, Satellites, Jupiter, History, Quelle, Astronomie
