Footnotes
[1]. "Intellectual Development of Europe" (Draper), Vol. ii. pp. 252-4.
[2]. "Intellectual Development," Vol ii. p. 255.
[3]. "Newcomb's Popular Astronomy," Introduction, p. 6.
[4]. "Intellectual Development," Vol. ii. p. 258.
[5]. I have read with some attention the apology which Catholics make for the church's harsh treatment of Galileo; but I have not yet found a writer among Catholics who attempts a defense of the church in this Bruno affair. Perhaps it is a credit to modern Catholics that they make no such effort. The incident stands, however, as an evidence of Catholic intolerance and bigotry, and shows how the apostate church of Rome had departed from the spirit of the Gospel of Christ.
[6]. "Intellectual Development," Vol. ii. p. 264.
[7]. "It moves however."
[8]. Kepler was born near Stuttgard in Wurtemburg, 1571, died 1630.
[9]. "Gillet & Rolfe's Astronomy," p. 48.
[10]. "Newcomb's Astronomy," p. 422.
[11]. Born 1724, died 1804.
[12]. Born 1728, died 1777.
[13]. "Newcomb's Astronomy," p. 475.
[14]. "Newcomb's Astronomy," p. 476.
[15]. "Newcomb's Astronomy," p. 477.
[16]. Johann Heinrich Madler, born 1794, died 1874.
[17]. "Newcomb's Astronomy," p. 466.
[18]. "Newcomb's Astronomy," p. 466-7.
[19]. "Newcomb's Astronomy," p. 466.
[20]. And light travels at the rate of 198,000 miles per second.
[21]. "Draper's Intellectual Development of Europe," Vol. ii., p. 292-3.
[22]. Intellectual Development of Europe, Vol. II., p. 299.
[23]. Newcomb's Astronomy, p. 305.
[24]. Intellectual Development of Europe, vol. ii, page 334.