Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . resigned itself. Innatural philosophy, as well as in other studies, various intrepid and originalthinkers aros-e, determined to make their way to the knowledge of truth by theirown efforts, and to look into the realities of nature with their own eyes. Thesemen well deserve to be accounted the pioneers of Bacon. But it was not tillhe a
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . resigned itself. Innatural philosophy, as well as in other studies, various intrepid and originalthinkers aros-e, determined to make their way to the knowledge of truth by theirown efforts, and to look into the realities of nature with their own eyes. Thesemen well deserve to be accounted the pioneers of Bacon. But it was not tillhe arose, that the war against the old despotic formalities of the schools wascommenced on anything like a grand scale, or carried on with adequate vigorand system. It was he who actually effected the conquest—who dispersed thedarkness and brought in the light. This he did by the publication of his No-vum Organum Scientiarum, or New Instrument of the Sciences, in theopening sentence of which, the fundamental tenet of his philosophy is announced,in the following words : Man, the servant and interpreter of Nature, under-stands and reduces to practice just so much as he has actually experienced ofNatures laws; more he can neither know nor achieve. 152 GALILEO. THE 19th of February by some accounts, but according to the best authoii-ties the 15th, is the anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest philosophersof modern times, the celebrated GALILEO GALILEI. He was born at Pisa, in1564. His family, which, till the middle of the fourteenth century, had bornethe name of Bonaiuti, was ancient and noble, but not wealthy; and his father,Vincenzo Galilei, appears to have been a person of very superior talents andaccomplishments. He is the author of several treatises upon music, whichshow him to have been master of both the practice and theory of that art. GALILEO was the eldest of a family of six children, three sons and threedaughters. His boyhood, like that of Newton, and of
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