The Private Life of Calileo

Автор: Sister Maria Celeste
Издательство: Nichols and Noyes
Страниц: 312
Год: 1870
Размер: 8,05 МБ

THE authorities which have been principally relied on in compiling the following work are : " Le Opere complete di Galileo Galilei," edited (1842-56) by Professor Eugo Alberi, from the Galileian manuscripts and correspondence preserved in the Palatine Library at Florence ; " La Primogenita di Galileo Galilei (1864)," by Professor Carlo Arduini, containing one hundred and twenty-one letters (also preserved in the Palatine Library) addressed to Galileo by his eldest daughter, the Franciscan nun Maria Celeste, eightyseven of which were first edited by Professor Arduini ; and u Galilee, son Proces, sa Condamnation," published by M. Henri de 1'Epinois in the " Revue des Questions Historiques (1867)." This last-named work supplies, what had hitherto been wanting, a mass of details concerning Galileo's trial, all of the highest interest, extracted by M. de 1'Epinois from the original trial papers now in the archives of the Vatican. It has been the endeavor of the compiler to place before the reader a plain, ungarbled statement of facts ; and as a means to this end, to allow Galileo, his friends, and his judges to speak for themselves as far as possible.