STANDING among the 10,000 rare books in the stacks of the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Bruce Bradley, the director of the history of science special collections, pulls out a copy of "The Starry Messenger," the revelatory book in which Galileo detailed his astronomical observations made with his own "spyglass" -- the instrument that would later be known as the telescope.

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Rare Books Don't Always Live in Glass Cases (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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