GALILEF. 
eentradictory, and hazarded without fufficient information 
pr enquiry ; and the author manifefts no deep refearch into 
antiquity, wien he boldly aflerts, p. 101, that the’ Jattuta, 
or eating time, was of practife y the ancients ; and 
p-133, that the monochord was oeaed by the ra- 
bians. 
It was the opinion of Galilei, so in his time there were 
not more than four reat _performe the organ, who 
were likewife comet in all Pay, which more abounded 
with muficians than any other part of the world; and thefe 
wereA nnibale Padovano,Claudio da Coreggio, GiufeppiGua- 
mi, and Luzzafco Lirzaaleni. He mentions nape pi arcoand 
viclone, but not the violin: and complains of the mufical 
Fehr ae of his time, who, on anes aoe and divifions, 
ifguifed every melody, that i 
ble, but refembled the reprefentations a the 
in oil, Cimabue and Gio which 1 
be written under them Por ae convenience ° of the {pectator, 
who, without fuch jar cg would be unable to ditinguith 
t from a hare, a fparrow froma lin- 
He fays, that the Italians, who were in poffeffion o! of the 
e had it from Ireland ; an 
had its origin from the harp: being n 
rizontal harp, as bees one who examines its figure with that 
idea muft fee. Thecetera, or guittar, he fays, was furnifh- 
ed to Ltaly by the oad who were formerly famous for 
making fuch inftrum 
Gahlei is a to fae been affifted in this controverfy by 
Girolamo a Florentine eae mathematician, phi- 
lofopher, sd hele cian. 
_ Batti a oni, in his « 2do. fopra gl’ Inftrumenti 
di Tafti,”’ or keyed inftr ae ce that in the begin ee of 
his mufical ftudies, his partiality for the mufic of the 
cients was greatly increafed by le perufal of the Dialogue 
of Galilei, in which Mei, had the greater part, ‘(dove il 
Mei ebbe la meggior parte), and {till more by a treatife 
written by this learned perfonage (Mei) De re dis Mufice, 
a MS. prefented to the Vatican library by nlig. Guaren- 
oa 
go, Op. Om. tom. i. p - Doni has fe ted this affer- 
tion by no. proof; but.in the Vatican library, among the 
queen of Sweden’s MSS. there is a volume of inedited 
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tar} 
Bk 
as, 
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fimilar to thofe of Galilei, but frequently ais seer in which 
they are expreffed in hie Dialogue ; particularly in a letter 
from Mei, dated Rome, 1572, in an{wer to two that he had 
received from Galilei, a. which he feems to have been con- 
fulted concerning the ufual difficulties which thofe have to 
this entire letter, and confi- 
cae writings of Mei, which i in- 
ns ; 
fays, Vincenzo Golilei was at this time in fome credit among 
muficians, and, flattered with his reputation, he purfued 
his findies with fuch diligence, Sip ‘after the publication of 
his.“ Dialogue eon Ancient and pp eed attempted 
new things, and with the Miftance of fig. > count of 
Verma, he was the firft who compofed melodie res 
‘yoice; having modulated that pathetic {cen 
U aol, written by Dante, aii he fung himfelf a 
‘pularity of t 
t only opinions — 
{weetly to the accompaniment fo a viol. This éffay cers 
tainly pleafed very much in general; however, there were 
fome individuals who lar aie at the atte 
in ng which, he fet, in the Tam y 
tions of Jeremiah, which were performed to a devout affem- 
an eminent ma sherman. phi- 
clofe 
» GALILES, 
tsippher, ca aftronomer, filcurifhed towards the 
the 16th and b 
n of Vincenzio Galilei (fee his article), and 
born at Pia, i in iy in the year 1564. 
his youth was engaged by the wee 
Ss 
mufic, and drawing ; but in the progrefs of his years thefe 
were exchanged for other-and fublimer fciences, in which 
he was deftined excel. Intended b fi 
his 
medical profeffion, he was educated in ae univerfity 0 
but conceiving a diflike to the fludy of me dicine, 2 as well as 
to the Ariftotelian philofophy w hich was then taught in the 
{chools, the a bias of his mind — him to cul- 
Having een ae inftrucie 
Euclid, medes, 
Soa The S epmecon which he acquired in this pea 
ent of fetence was fo diftinguifhed, that, before he was 
oi a occatio 
1592; an invitation w m e 
ublic of Venice to occupy the mathematical oat in the 
ea of Padua. In this fituation he continued. for 
18 years, contr ributing very much to the reputation and po- 
e feminary with which he was conneéted. 
Tufcany, toner, by degrees felt an increafing ardour for 
improvement ; and the patriotifm of Galileo rendered him 
a 
S 
to 
Florence, givin him the title of principal mathematician 
and philofopher to his highnefs, and onnune his falary of 
profeffor at Pifa, without the obligation of refidence. In ie 
as well as in other fituations, Galileo united with the fludy of 
mathematics that of phyfics, and aranet| the doGrines 
mechanics and optics. Indeed, before his fettlement at 
Padua he had written his «* Mechanics,” ftating the ad- 
vantages to be derived that rs and its inftru- 
d frot 
eae cae alfo his « Balance,”’ 
alloy in mixed metals. 
towards the hea 
that Baa ey es es his view. 
the moon he daw tl eee and dee 
uae. or milky w red to bea crowded afe 
een of fixed els javifible ie “a naked eye. Ven - 
