Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 · New York : F. F. Sherman · leaf 177
ne were to maintain that theyhad invented the systems of Newton and Laplace, andif, in order to prove the absurdity of the claim, I hadto show how pre-scientific these ancients were, the faultwould not be mine but his who made such a ridiculousdeclaration. To compare small with great, that is… … remained throughout the entire Renaissance, producedduring that period no other artist so backward. I willnot speak of a later contemporary like Lorenzo di Ales-sandro of San Severino, but surely, if we were limitedto that region, his own townsman Girolamo di Gio-vanni, or Antonio or Francesco di…
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