![Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius Magna, Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula Pandens, Suspiciendaque Proponens Unicuique [The great starry messenger], 1610, f10 verso, two moons](http://www.sil.si.edu/PAID/fullsize/2003/2003-20217.jpg "Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius Magna, Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula Pandens, Suspiciendaque Proponens Unicuique [The great starry messenger], 1610, f10 verso, two moons")
Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius Magna, Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula Pandens, Suspiciendaque Proponens Unicuique [The great starry messenger], 1610, f10 verso, two moons
On July 20, 1969, two members of the Apollo 11 crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, took their first steps on the moon, while America and the world watched, enthralled.—Elizabeth Periale
Image from Heralds of Science
In 1955 Bern Dibner, the noted science book collector and founder of the Burndy Library, published Heralds of Science as Represented by Two Hundred Epochal Books and Pamphlets Selected from the Burndy Library.
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