Fahie, J. J. (John Joseph), 1846-1934 · London, J. Murray · leaf 111
; and having during hisprofessorship made known to the world divers discoveries andinventions to his own renown and the common weal; but inparticular having lately invented an instrument by which (knowingthe secrets of perspective) things visible, but most distant, arebrought within easy vision,… … Campanile and Church of San Marco, \enice. [ To face p. 78. i6io] ITS INVENTION BY GALILEO 79 In II ~ Saggiatore, published in 1623,Galileo enters more fully into the reasoningswhich led him to the invention, and defends hisright to consider the telescope as a child of hisbrain. He says :— What…
