GAL 
; : ay 
ferved for his fon Vincenzio, who made the experiment in Ve 
ice 1 g.; and the: mvention was — rw _ carried to 
perfection by "Huygens. (See Cre d PenpuLum.) Ga- 
hleo im inve a a oe w rine wh hich the Venetians render 
nation 
matter, by whom the e gravitatio n of the atmofphere was efta- 
blifhed fully, and its varying me ure accurately and conve- 
the column of quic ilver, of equal 
_ The ela fti- 
fuch property,) a and 
fophy. Theie Ee ioles opened up a va 
wleful knowledge, and explained a great variety of pheno- 
i ma 
fore that time. fe as if the air, the fluid in which 
men lived from the beginning, had been then firft difcovered. 
i bufily i oe into its va- 
valuable difcoveries 
oh we cannot but mer 
- many; aeer Bo le in Englan 
The treatifes written by Galileo were fo numerous, that 
exceed our prefcribed limits if we recited all 
Florentino, &c.’? in two volumes, 4to. 
his «¢ Letters’ to feveral ime men, and a of a 
variety of problems, was publifhed at Bologna, n 4to. 
His laft difciple, Vincenzo Viviani, a very eminent ae: 
tician, methodized a piece of his mafter’s, and publifhed it 
re the cae of Quinto Libro de gli Elementi d’Eu- 
ide, &c.’ 1674, 4to.; and he alfo publifhed fome other 
are of Galileo’s, inclading extracts from his letters to a 
learned Frenchman, in which: the author gives an uaa a 
the works wa he intended to have publithe and an 
tract o etter to John Camillo,” a neomes ician of 
Naples, concerning ‘the angle of con Many other. of 
‘Galiléo’s writings were unfortunately loft to the world,. 
cue the foe eee of one of his ignorant nephews ; 
who, confidering that his uncle died a prifoner oF = a 
office, though permitted to refide in his own houfe, 
fufpeéted that. his an i aca contain dangerous oe 
and therefore committed them to the flam 
Befides the cbligetiont which atonony, mathematics, 
GAL 
firing caufing oo to Pes that is naar in unton, 
octave, or fifth, have been fo much the means extending 
the knowledge. i saesis a by fubfequent ean ‘that 
this great philofopher as well merits an honourable niche 
among arr to the {cience, as his father VincenzioG 
Hilei, amo 
Matematiche,”’ treats of ie vibrations of esi 
of kindred founds, propagation of fou d of mufical. 
dedication of thefe Sifeourfes to the 
this opinion has lately 
rade confuted by feveral Tealiah writer: . ehannped o nor 
rlo apa a fent t he late Di ide the: 
Blog ea tomo v Morer. 
Dictio Maclaurin’ 8 ages of Sir “Meac Newton’s 
Philofophical Difcoveries, b. i. c. 3. Brucker’s Hiftory of 
Philofophy, by Enfield, vol. ii. b. x. €. 3. . Gen. 
Bio 
Gaizo’s Tele efcope. See TELEs es 
GALILEO’S Temperament of the Mufical Scale. — According ie 
to Mr. Overen s MS. in the library of the Royal Inftite 
of: 
tion, vol. i. p. 135, this fcale had the fifth tempered 2ths 
major comma flat, and the fourth as much thar e ma- 
jor third was $ths of a comma flat, and the’ minor fixth the 
ity fharp : = minor third ths of a comma fharp, 
and the major fixth as much. the major fecond or: 
greater tone 4ths of a comma flat, and the — feventh 
hs of acomma flat. Sucha fyftem asthis feems very 
2 ie to ane to which aes it never was ee. 
mitted, like numerous modern tuning fchem 
GALINA Porn? in Geograp iy a cape on the north: 
coatt of Jamaica. N. lat. 18° ong. 76° 4i 
Pe NAZZO, atown of Italy, in 1 the department of 
he Mela; 12 miles N. of Brefcia. 
CA INGA, a town of ails in the départment of 
the Serio ; : 16 miles E. of Ber 
GALINGEN, a town - Pru, in the province of 
‘Natangen; 7 miles S. of Bartenitein 
GALINHAS, called by pis Portuguefe Magualbari, 
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ariver of Africa, which runs into the Atlantic. N. lat. 
W. long. 11° 15°. 
GALIOLA, a {mall ifland in the gulf < of — Ss. WwW. 
of Cherfo. N. ‘lat. 44° 54. FE 20 
GALIOTE @ Bombes, Fr. - See Boste-vefel 
GALIPZEA, in Botany,.a barbarous name formed by 
Aublet out of the Fren ch appellation of the Caribée Indians, 
Galipons, ~~ call the plant’ in queftion n Inga. Au et. 
Guian. 662. t. 269, Willd. Sp.. Plev.. 1. 41. Juff. 418.. 
ge Iluftr. t. BO. a ms. order, Diandria Monogy-- 
Nid. rd. uncertain 
ene “Ch, Cal. Peranth eide of one leaf, tubular, 
with four or five angles, and as many acute equal teeth. 
Cor of dane se lon e 
two or whieh are fhort and. abortive ¢ 3 two as long as the 
calyx ;: all inferted into the tube of the corolla ; anthers ob. . 
long, ‘obtule,. of two lobes.and.two cells, Pi if. Neat 
fuperior, . 
