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| Opere di Gal. Galilei, Nob. Fior. Accad. Linc. &c. | Firenze, 1718. 3 vols. 4to. |
| Opere di Gal. Galilei | Padova, 1744. 4 vols. 4to. |
| Opere di Gal. Galilei | Milano, 1811. 13 vols. 8vo. |
CORRECTIONS.
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| [5] | 1 | 2, | Add: His instructor was the celebrated botanist, Andreas Cæsalpinus, who was professor of medicine at Pisa from 1567 to 1592. Hist. Acad. Pisan.; Pisis, 1791. |
| [8] | 2 | 18, | Add: According to Kästner, his German name was Wursteisen. |
| [8] | 2 | 21, | for 1588 read 1586. |
| [15] | 1 | 57, | for 1632 read 1630. |
| [17] | 1 | 29, | Salusbury alludes to the instrument described and figured in "The Use of the Sector, Crosse Staffe, and other Instruments. London, 1624." It is exactly Galileo's Compass. |
| [17] | 1 | 52, | for Burg, a German, read Burgi, a Swiss. |
| [27] | 2 | 17, | The author here called Brutti was an Englishman: his real name, perhaps, was Bruce. See p. [99]. |
| [50] | 1 | 14, | Kepler's Epitome was not published till 1619: it was then inserted in the Index. |
| [73] | 1 | 60, | for under read turned from. |
| [80] | 2 | 44, | for any read an indefinitely small. |
FOOTNOTES:
[170] The words of his diploma are: Galilæi in mathematicis disciplinis discipulus, in ærumnis socius, Italicum ingenium ita perpolivit optimis artibus ut inter mathematicos sæculi nostri facile princeps per orbem litterarium numeretur.—Tiraboschi.
[171] On this occasion the taste of the time showed itself in the following anagram:—
Evangelista Torricellieus,
En virescit Galilæus alter.
[172] Compare Son. ii. v. 8 & 9; and Son. iii. v. 2 & 3, with Ger. Lib. c. iv. st. 76, and c. vii. st. 19.—The author gladly owns his obligation for these remarks to the kindness of Sig. Panizzi, Professor of Italian in the University of London.