 | I. Bernard Cohen - History - 1985 - 280 pages
...discoveries. Milton, whose views on the epicycle were quoted in Chapter 3, stated that when he was in Italy he "found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition." In his Paradise Lost, he refers more than once to the "glass of Galileo," or the "optic glass" of the... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - Religion - 1986 - 538 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... | |
 | Maurice A. Finocchiaro - Science - 1989 - 398 pages
...when in the Areopagitica he commented on his visit to Galileo in Florence by 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 thought." I happen... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...impossible. 135 [Who, in 1638, visited the blind Galileo in Arcetri] There [in Catholic Italy] 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. Areopagitica.... | |
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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. 
