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Identifier: galileohislifewo00fahi (find matches)
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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at I please (it being my turn this week), Iwill that after dinner the Senate assemble, andthat your election be put to the ballot, whichwas done (with few dissentient votes,) So Iam bound here for life, and can only hopeto enjoy a sight of my own country during therecesses. 1 The decree is dated 25th August 1609, and the preambleruns as follows :— Domino Galileo Galilei having been mathe-matical lecturer in Padua for seventeen years, to the gain of theUniversity and to the satisfaction of all ; and having during hisprofessorship made known to the world divers discoveries andinventions to his own renown and the common weal; but inparticular having lately invented an instrument by which (knowingthe secrets of perspective) things visible, but most distant, arebrought within easy vision, and which may be made to serve inmany occasions ; now, it is proper that this Council do gratefullyand munificently recognise the labours of those who are employedfor the public benefit. Therefore, etc.
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Campanile and Church of San Marco, \enice. ( To face p. 78. i6io) ITS INVENTION BY GALILEO 79 In II ~ Saggiatore, published in 1623,Galileo enters more fully into the reasoningswhich led him to the invention, and defends hisright to consider the telescope as a child of hisbrain. He says :— What part belongs to me in the inventionof the telescope, and why may I reasonably callit my son ? As I have long ago shown in my Sidereus Nuncius, news arrived at Venice,where I happened to be at the moment, thata Dutchman had presented to Count Mauriceof Nassau a glass by means of which one couldsee distant things as clearly as if they werenear. With this simple fact I returned toPadua, and, reflecting on the problem, I foundthe solution on the first night after my arrival,and the next day I made an instrument andreported the fact to my friends at Venice, withwhom I had been discussing the rumour. Inthe next six days I made a more perfect instru-ment, with which I returned to Venice, andshowed i

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