THE KANSAS WEATHER SERVICE. 



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most a "territio verbalis." Consult on this the Letters of Galileo, Limborch's 

 " Historia Inquisitionis," and the Vatican MSS. Nor were the latter tampered 

 with or withdrawn. "Galileo was not a martyr of science," says Henry Martin. 

 Finally, nor was Galileo "forced to ask pardon of God by a retrograde clergy, 

 for having revealed the eternal and ravishing harmonies by which he rules the 

 universe." To the pontiffs and dignitaries of Rome we are mainly indebted for 

 the Copernican system. Galileo was not the first to broach it. Cardinal Nicho- 

 las de Cusa promulgated it before Copernicus. The system was taught in the 

 Jesuit University in Rome. Another Jesuit explained it at Sapienza, the Pope's 

 own University. As long as it was treated as a scientific and not a religious 

 question, the church put no hindrance in the way. Galileo was no exception.. 

 Gardens and palaces were flung open for his use, and prelates and cardinals were 

 his admiring attendants. Whence, then, the change in 1616? — Globe Democrat. 



METEOROLOGY, 



REPORT FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT CENTRAL STATION, 

 WASHBURN COLLEGE, TOPEKA, KANSAS. 



BY PROF. J. T. LOVEWELL, DIRECTOR. 

 RAIN-FALL, AT WASHBURN COLLEGE, BY MONTHS, FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS. 



MONTHS. 



January . . 

 February . 

 March . . 

 April . . . 

 May . . . 

 June . . . 

 July . . . 

 August . . 

 September 

 October. . 

 November 

 December. 



Total . 



1879 



1.20 



0-34 

 0.15 

 3.872 



3-55 

 5.901 



3-923 

 0.519 

 1.852 



2.457 

 7.218 

 2.154 



33-136 



No record. 

 0.68 

 1.76 

 1.404 

 3-588 

 5-835 

 3-09 

 9.11 

 2.42 

 3.08 

 1.76 

 0-35 ■ 



32.777 



0.60 

 2.600 



34 

 085 

 81 

 84 



85 

 72 



74 



65 

 70 



0.40 



26.335 



Highest barometer during month 29.48, on the 23rd. Lowest barometer 

 during month 28.71, on the 29th. 



