...discoveries. Milton, whose views on the epicycle were quoted in Chapter 3, stated that when he was in Italy he "found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition." In his Paradise Lost, he refers more than once to the "glass of Galileo," or the "optic glass" of the...

...Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner of the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers...

...hut still working with his students Viviani and Torricelli. Milton wrote of his visit: . . . There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican Licensers thought." Galileo died on January 8, 1642. He had turned the science of physics to its proper course, and estahlished...

...Italian wits; that nothing had bin there writt'n now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisner to the Inquisition, for thinking in Astronomy otherwise then the Franciscan and Dominican licencers...

...right when in the Areopagitica he commented on his visit to Galileo in Florence by saying: "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." I happen to be extremely interested in this second story and second controversy, and a critical interpretation...

...thought impossible. 135 [Who, in 1638, visited the blind Galileo in Arcetri] There [in Catholic Italy] it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican Licensers thought. Areopagitica. For the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing 1644 Herman Minkowski 1864-1909 136 The views...

...Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. (II, 537-38) Honorific as Milton claims...

...had another memorable encounter with an international celebrity. 'There it was', he reported later, 'that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.'" It may have been the great scientist's son, Vmcenzo Galilei, who made possible this interview, or it may...

...connection, Milton appealed to the most notorious case of censorship known to learned contemporaries: "I visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner...otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."28 In 1642 the astronomer had died, and if the censors could have had their way, his ideas...

...212, 214-215. 40. Milton was in Florence in the summer of 1638, and it was presumably then that he "found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought," as he related it in the Aeropagitica. On the question of Milton's visit to Italy, see Mario Di Cesare,...