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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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all Tuscan. The building, which is said to have cost ^f 40,000,consists of (i) a vestibule which is lighted on the leftby a fine stained-glass window, and from whichopens, on the right, (2) a small rectangular hall,which leads to (3) a semi-circular tribune. Theinteriors are entirely lined with white marble, andprofusely decorated with frescoes, medallions, busts,and drawings carved in low-relief and illustrative ofthe discoveries and inventions of Galileo and hisimmediate followers. In the centre of the tribune stands the statue ofGalileo by Professor Costoli; and in compartmentsof the domed ceiling- above the statue are threefrescoes, depicting three momentous periods of hislife—the rising, the zenith, and the setting of hisgenius. In the first, we see the youthful Galileowatching intently the swinging lamp in the Cathedralof Pisa. In the second, he is presenting his telescopeto the Doge of Venice. In the third, old and blind,he is seated at a table, with his left hand on a globe,
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Tribuna di Galileo, Florenee. \_To face /. 414- i642) TRIBUNE OF GALILEO 415 and discoursing to Torricelli and Viviani; the parishpriest of Arcecri, and Galileos father confessor, areseen listening at the open door. In the (semi-circular) wall of the tribune are sixniches; the first, second, fifth, and sixth, containbusts of Castelli and Cavalieri, Torricelli andViviani, the two first and the two last disciples ofGalileo. In the third niche one sees, through aglass frame, two of Galileos later telescopes, andthe object-glass of the telescope with which he madeall his astronomical discoveries ; we have reproduceda photograph of these precious relics to face p. 96.In the fourth niche, also glass-covered, are seen (i)a geometrical and military compass, (2) a loadstonewith Galileos armature, and (3) the index finger ofhis left hand. In lu7iettes, above the walls of the vestibule andrectangular hall, are four large frescoes. One,which faces the visitor on entering the temple,shows Leonardo

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