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Title: Galileo, his life and work
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fahie, J. J. (John Joseph), 1846-1934
Subjects: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 Astronomy Astronomers
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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in the book whichcould form the basis of an accusation against itsauthor; they found something on the engravedtitle-page ! The words Dialogo di Galileo Galilei,Linceo, al Ser. Ferd. II Gran. Duca di Toscanaare printed on the field of a pavilion, with thefive palle or balls, the armorial bearings of theMedici, and surmounted by the Grand Ducal crown.Below, on the shore of a sea stand three personsdisputing—Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus, thetwo latter having their names printed on the edge ^ Letter, Torricelli to Galileo, nth September 1632. * The Rosa Ursina was published in 1630, and was a fierceattack on Galileo personally. No direct answer was made, but inseveral passages in the Dialogues the book received some hardknocks, as Scheiner intimates in the above extract. This Jesuit, if notthe leader of the new crusade against Galileo, was certainly one ofthe foremost and most relentless of his enemies. For further proof ofthe complicity of the Jesuits, see pp. 284 and 342 infra.
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