Re:Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009)
by schoen on Saturday July 27, 2019 @12:51AM
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That looks like the Latin ablative case, governed by the preposition "a" in the previous line. In Latin you can see many different forms of a name depending on its context in a sentence (the two most common in books' title pages being the genitive and ablative, roughly meaning 'of' and 'by').
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius
I wonder if this is at all related to the question asked in this article.