Since Elsevier was mentioned, does anyone happen to know whether the
Elsevier we know now as a scientific (including statistics) publisher is
lineally connected with the printer Elzevir (also in Netherlands) who
originally printed Galileo's work on the motion of the planets when it
was banned throughout the Catholic world?
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