GALILEO 



Galileo made no additions to Philosophy or to the 

 theories of Science. His great work was in the 

 practical observation of nature, and in the persist- 

 ence with which he taught, until his arrest, the 

 truth and evidences of the Copernican theories which 

 his discoveries firmly established. The ability with 

 which his views were set forth and the purity and 

 elegance of his style which, as Hume states, has 

 made his writings classic contributed much to the 

 dissemination of his discoveries and to his own 

 celebrity.* 



* The above is mainly frora Jean Baptiste Biot. (Biographe Uni- 

 verselle, 2 Edit., T. XV.) 



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