258 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



jusculo) usuni rei ilcstruit. Si cnim inventum extend! 

 posset ad corpora inajora, aut corporuin majorum mi- 

 nutias ; adeo ut textura panni lintei conspici posset 

 taii(|uaiu rete ; atque hoc modo minutiae latentes et in- 

 acqualitates gemmarum, liquorum, uriiuiruni, sanguinis, 

 vulneruni, et multaruin aliaruni reruin cerni possent ; 

 magna) procuklubio ex eo invento commoditates capi 

 possent. 



Secundi generis sunt ilia altera pcrspicilla, qua 4 

 memorabili conatu adinvenit Galihcus u : (juoruni ope, 

 tanquam |&amp;gt;er scaphas aut uaviculas, aperiri et exerceri 

 j&amp;gt;ossiiit propiora cum coelestibus commercia. Iliuc euini 

 coustat, galaxiam esM- noduin sive coacervationem stel- 

 lartini j)arvaruni, plane immeratarum et distinctarum : 

 de qua re aj&amp;gt;ud antiquos taiitum suspicio fuit. I line 

 denionstrari videtur, quod sjiatia orbium (quos voeant) 

 planetarum non sint plane vacua aliis stellis; sed quod 

 cerium incipiat stellascere, aiitc(iuam ad ca lum ipsum 

 stellatum veiitum sit ; licet stellis minoribus, quam ut 

 sine perspicillis istis conspici possint. llinc choreas 

 illas stellarum parvarum circa planetam Jovis (undo 

 conjici possit, esse in motibus stellarum ])lura centra- 15 ) 



34 Remarkable as a mention of really the inventor of the Telescope : 

 (ialileo with approbation. Some but this does not seem to have been 

 have denied that (ialileo really in- the case. At any rate Galileo was 

 vented the Telescope. But it seems the first person who invented it 

 to have been his discovery. See from scientific principles. lie com- 

 Drinkwater s Life of (ialileo, pub- bined a plano-convex and a plano- 

 lished in the Library of Useful concave lens, the latter the nearer 

 Knowledge, chap. vi. The single to the eye, distant from each other 

 lens and its use were well known by the difference of their focal 

 long before Galileo, and there are lengths; their principle was that 

 passages in both Fracastoro s wri- of the Opera-glass. He also con- 

 tings and in those of Baptista Porta, structed Microscopes on the same 

 which seem to shew that they had principle. 



tried to combine two lenses toge- &&amp;gt; This reference to the Satellites 



ther. Roger Bacon s language has of Jupiter; and the possibility of 



led some to conceive (see Palgrave s many centres, shews that Bacon 



Merchant and I- riar) that he was was after all prepared to accept the 



