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A hand holds up a miniature book next to a sugar cube. Text on the spine reads "Galileo". Original caption: "One of the smallest books in the world dwarfed by a hand and a lump of sugar. The tiny volume has been presented to the treasure room of the library of the Massachusetts In[illegible] Professor Emeritus Arthur E. Kennelly. It contains more than 200 printed pages and a total of 4,000 words. The book weighs 1.6 grams, and each page measures eleven-sixteenths by three-eighths of an inch. The text, entitled "Alla serenissima Madama la granduchessa, Madre Galileo Galilei", was written in Padova in 1615, and the book itself was printed in Italy in 1896. # # # # # July 17, 1935. From J. J. Rowlands". Original credit line: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.