 | Eileen Reeves - Art - 1997 - 340 pages
...212, 214-215. 40. Milton was in Florence in the summer of 1638, and it was presumably then that he "found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought," as he related... | |
 | Stillman Drake - Philosophy - 1999 - 524 pages
...defense of a free press. Milton recalled his visit to Florence a few years earlier, saying: "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers of thought." In the... | |
 | Cesare Barbieri, Francesca Rampazzi - Science - 2001 - 598 pages
...heroic intellectual freedom for Milton, who elsewhere reported on his visit to Florence: "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought" (Milton 737-8).... | |
 | Wade Rowland - Religion and science - 2003 - 340 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy, otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.4 On these... | |
 | Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 130 pages
...wits, that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner of the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers... | |
 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - Political Science - 752 pages
..."happy to be born in such a place of Philosophic freedom, as they suppos'd England was ..." There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 110 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - History - 2009 - 677 pages
...curiosity and truth themselves. We don't know what they talked about. Milton said later that 'there I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought'. For Milton,... | |
 | Maurice A. Finocchiaro - History - 2005 - 506 pages
...in early spring 1639. In fact, in the same passage of the Areopagitica, he stated that "there it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."65 Although... | |
 | George F. Simmons - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 386 pages
...his life. In 1638-39 the English poet John Milton visited him there and later wrote: "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers of thought." On the... | |
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There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. 
