...but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licences thought. Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors...

...reverend attention upon the mien of Italy's most famous son. "There it was," wrote Milton, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a...Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than as the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." the great Columbus of the heavens had made his...

...from this side the Alps; but his fame had gone before him. There it was his fortune to visit Galileo, a prisoner to the Inquisition " for thinking in astronomy...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." There Milton would have continued, or passed from thence into Greece, had not the intelligence reached...

...from this side the Alps ; but his fame had gone before him. There it was his fortune to visit Galileo, a prisoner to the Inquisition " for thinking in astronomy...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." There Milton would have continued, or passed from thence into Greece, had not the intelligence reached...

...years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. (Vol. iii., page 313.) MUIRHEAD, JAMES PATRICK, MA The Life of JAMES WATT, with Selections from his...

...futuri. That was the house "where," says MILTON, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) "I found and visited the famous GALILEO, grown old, — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy, otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought."* Great heavens ! what...

...suggestive visit is that given by the great poet in these few words : " There (in Italy) it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." The impression, however, that was made on Milton's mind, judging from his repeated allusions to the...

...astronomer not as a scientist but as a symbol of the suffering created by bigotry : There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And later, in Paradise lost, he speaks of the moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist...

...nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. 843 There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought." My last quotation expresses Milton's patriotic pride in the intellectual vitality...

...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...