The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-31

attended with diinculty and delay. Ia Nav, 1880,
Calico, In person, took the manuscript to Rome
to secure The tmprimItur OF the ecclcsiasticll
authorities. The first officer to whom he present.
cd it, Father luccatdi committed II to the cx-
animation OF IN expert in mathematics, who
corrected 1t ia places and finally gave 1t his ap-
prov H. Upon this a license was issued to print
IT in Rome. Tut as June mad arrived, and with il
the hot we ither. which made n iurtner stay In
Rome dangerous to Galileo's health, he returned
to Florence, intending to 20 back to Rome i'm
the au'utnn aud cUupiste tue business. In
August. however he received warning to get the
book through tho press 1T Florence. and as
speedily as possible. The requisite permission
was obi ined from the General 1uquisitor at
Florence, and application was M de to Father
Rice rdi for hls consent to tha change. Rlccardi
answered that he must 20 over the manuscript
again, and requested that 1t should be sent
to him at Rome. But the plague
was then raging. and Calico found that
the package would not be allowed to
paes the frontier between Tuscany and the
Roman States. lie communicated this fact to
Rccardi, who thereupon reduced his demand
to ono for the preface and conclusion only.
These, being Of small bulk went through with
out obstruction and were delivered to Riccardi.
For some reason, not fully explained, THIS on lal
Calico, losing patience. took the risk OF going
on with tho remaining portion OF the book ana
had got the sh cts II printed when, IN the sum
mer Of 1851. he received back the preface and
conclusion, amended and approved. by tins
time the font ot type which his printer had been
using gave out aud another had 90 be employed
for the preface, co taining luccIrdrs emcnia-
lions. But IN OBS aclcs were I'm lily overcome.
and in February, iGJ! GIlil,o WAS able to send
to his friends copies Of the work. Ia Florence
T. h mn immediate and immense success. but
the plague prevented its r. ching Rome until
MAY, when two unbound and eight bound copies
found their way td.lher. Thea, werc passed
from hama to hand and eagerly real by tue
copcrnic,n party. an as eagerly made tho oc-
ca-i1r, Nv their opponents, OF final aud crush
ing Diow at Ca,lcO.
This time the atttck was conducted by the
Jesuts OF which order were many of the
le rned men. university professors AMI others.
who supp rted Aristotle anl tue PtDlemaic
-ys.,m. and hal been engaged In personal con-
,royersy with Calico. 10 cnli.t the Pope in
their e use. they % int out t. lim tlat among
the arguments which Gtilsp had pat into the
mouth ~ ~tmrlctl-, or the simpletou. wa. one
which the Poe him-elf lal employed ia con-
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