The Life of Galileo Galilei, with Illustrations of the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy / Life of Kepler

by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune

FOOTNOTES:

[56] Adone di Marini, Venetiis, 1623, Cant. x.

[57] Speculat. Lib Venetiis, 1585, Epistolæ.

[58] This opinion, with respect to the milky way, had been held by some of the ancient astronomers. See Manilius. Lib. i. v. 753.

• "Anne magis densâ stellarum turba coronâ
• "Contexit flammas, et crasso lumine candet,
• "Et fulgore nitet collato clarior orbis."

[59] Huyghens announced his discovery in this form: a a a a a a a c c c c c d e e e e e g h i i i i i i i l l l l m m n n n n n n n n n o o o o p p q r r s t t t t t u u u u u, which he afterwards recomposed into the sentence. Annulo cingitur, tenui, plano, nusquam cohærente, ad eclipticam inclinato. De Saturni Lunâ. Hagæ, 1656.

[60] B. vii. v. 364. Other passages may be examined in B. i. 286; iii. 565-590, 722-733; iv. 589; v. 261, 414; vii. 577; viii. 1-178.

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