Identifier: galileohislifewo00fahi (find matches)
Title: Galileo, his life and work
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fahie, J. J. (John Joseph), 1846-1934
Subjects: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 Astronomy Astronomers
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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l Chair in Padua, whichhad been vacant since January 1588, another factwhich shows the little value that was attached topure science even in learned Padua.^ Now he againapproached his friend, the Marquis del Monte, onthe subject. Del Monte was a distinguished pupil ofthe Padua University, had many friends there, andalso a relative who was high-placed in the militaryservice of the Venetian republic. With letters ofintroduction from this influential man, Galileo setout for Venice towards the end of the summer of1592, all his worldly goods (as he used afterwards totell his friends) being contained in a trunk whichdid not weigh 100 lbs. He passed through Pesaro,the home of his noble friend and patron, and haltedat Padua, where he was warmly received byGianvincenzio Pinelli, a learned man of Genoeseextraction long domiciled at Padua, and an intimatefriend of del Monte. Armed, further, with recom-mendations from Pinelli, Galileo arrived in Venice ^ See remarks on this subject, p. lo ante.34
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V I592-I6IO) PROFESSOR IN PADUA 35 about I St September, and was met with the alarmingintelligence that a formidable rival was already inthe field, namely, Giovanni Magini, whom we havebefore mentioned as the Professor of Mathematics inBologna, whose term there was about to expire, andwho was long known to have aspired to the Chair atPadua. However, with the aid of his friends, delMonte and Pinelli, and of their friends in Venice,Galileo had the good fortune to be selected. Beinginformed privately of this happy issue, he set out on20th September for Padua, e7i ro7ite for Florence, towind up his affairs there, and to obtain the permis-sion of his sovereign to withdraw from Tuscany. On 26th September he was gazetted, and asthe terms of the diploma (preserved amongst theGalilean MSS. in the National Library, Florence)will serve to show the estimation in which ourphilosopher was held, we reproduce it here. (After preamble.) Owing to the death ofSi^nor Moletti, who formerlv lectured on Mat

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