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Vol. VIII., No. 46 January, 1869.
Galileo-Galilei,
The Florentine Astronomer.
1564-1642.
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"Even so great a man as Bacon rejected the theory of Galileo with scorn. … Bacon had not all the means of arriving at a sound conclusion which are within our reach; and which secure people who would not have been worthy to mend his pens from falling into his mistakes."
—Macaulay.
An Unwritten Chapter.
Galileo's "connection with a political party, unfriendly to religion as well as to the papal government," is correctly referred to by the Edinburgh Review as one of the causes of his difficulties concerning a question upon which Copernicus met with none whatever.
Our space will not permit us to treat this interesting chapter of the Galileo story, or we might show that not only such a connection, but Galileo's associations with the partisans and friends of such men (and in some cases with the men themselves) as Sarpi, (Fra Paolo,) Antonio de Dominis, etc. etc., contributed powerfully to encourage in him an insulting aggressiveness that even the indulgent admonition of 1616 could not restrain.