Un esercizio di storia della scienza: misurare i periodi dei satelliti galileiani di Giove con il Sidereus Nuncius

After Galileo’s publication of the Sidereus Nuncius in 1610, Giovanni Battista Agucchi obtained in 1611 an estimate of the orbital periods of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter using the figures published in the book. The article shows how to repeat these measurements in a teaching context for high school students.