pupils, a great artist, Lodovico Cigoli, always main- LITTLE 

 tained that it was to the inspiration and counsel of JOURNEYS 

 Galileo that he owed his success. 



There are really only two things to see at Pisa; one is 

 the Leaning Tower, from which Galileo with line and 

 plummet made some of his most interesting experi- 

 ments ; and the other is the Cathedral where the vis- 

 itor beholds the great bronze lamp that is suspended 

 from the vaulted ceiling. When he was twenty-one, 

 sitting in the silence of this beautiful church (which 

 the passing years have only made more beautiful), he 

 noticed that there was a slight swinging motion to this 

 lamp: it was never still. Galileo set to work timing 

 and measuring these oscillations, and found that they 

 were always done in exact measure and in perfect 

 rhythm. This led, some years later, to the perfecting 

 of an astronomical clock for measuring the movements 

 of the stars. And from this we got the pendulum clock, 

 where before we had depended on sun-dials. 

 The endeavor of Galileo's parents had been to keep him 

 ignorant of mathematics and practical life, that he 

 might blossom forth as a saint who would sing and 

 play and make pictures like those of Leonardo, and 

 carve statues like Michael Angelo, only better. 

 But parents plan, and fate disposes. In 1583, the 

 famous mathematician Ostilio Ricci chanced to be in 

 Pisa, on his way from Rome to Milan, and gave a lec- 

 ture at the Court, on Geometry. Galileo was not in- 

 terested in the theme, but he was in the speaker, and 

 so he attended the lecture. 



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