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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t religious reformersand enthusiasts, one of the Christian martyrs of the world. We turn from Savonarola, and a very different vision quickly risesbefore us. The vision of an aged man sweeping the heavens withthe first telescope, and entrenching with delight upon the bordersof unknown worlds. Yet the religious enthusiast and the creatorof experimental science had much in common. Both were farseeing, both were men of thought and action; both loved theirfellow men; the one was quite shipwrecked, the other nearly so, byimprudence and want of tact and moderation. Though Galileo is more connected with Pisa and Padua thanwith Florence, the two names are yet inseparable. He was onlyeighteen when he made his first important discovery in science.Whilst watching the oscillations of a lamp in the cathedral atPisa, he was arrested by the measured regularity of its vibrations,and this gave him the first idea of the pendulum in the measure-ment of time. His father had destined him for medicine; but
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Courtyard of Palazza Vecchio. 146 In Sunny Climes, nature was too strong for him and he turned to science. His lifewas a long series of inventions. He revealed and perfected thelaws of bodies in motion, and discovered that all falling bodiesdescended with equal velocity. He invented a microscope, an or-dinary and a refractory telescope. These brought him into newworlds. He upset many past and accepted theories. He declaredthat the moon had no light of her own, was an unequal body com-posed of hills and valleys. He declared that the Milky Way wascomposed of countless millions of suns and stars : he discovered thesatellites of Jupiter. He revealed the rotation of the sun, and thatthe earth moved round it. Many of his theories were received asheresies, and some of them he was publicly ordered to renounce.The rack is said to have been resorted to. He was at this periodfull of years and infirmity, and if he yielded to the Inquisitorialdemands, he must not be harshly judged. His denials, af

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