. The Open court. y broken the wings of the earth, and afterward the proph-ecy, read in the stars, that Gassendi should bejcome fatally ill inthe midsummer of 1650. When, however, the earth as well asGassendi pursued its way unharmed, he drew upon himself from afriend of Gassendi the Anatomy of a Ridiculous Mouse {Anatomiamuris ridiculi, Paris, 1651) to which he replied by hiS coarse epistleOf the Three Impostors (1654). The Jesuit Riccoli had tried again in his JVew Almagest (1653)to restore and set going Ptolemys complicated world-machinerywith all its spheres and epicycles. But he no longer
. The Open court. y broken the wings of the earth, and afterward the proph-ecy, read in the stars, that Gassendi should bejcome fatally ill inthe midsummer of 1650. When, however, the earth as well asGassendi pursued its way unharmed, he drew upon himself from afriend of Gassendi the Anatomy of a Ridiculous Mouse {Anatomiamuris ridiculi, Paris, 1651) to which he replied by hiS coarse epistleOf the Three Impostors (1654). The Jesuit Riccoli had tried again in his JVew Almagest (1653)to restore and set going Ptolemys complicated world-machinerywith all its spheres and epicycles. But he no longer dared to de-cide for it absolutely, and wrote to Gassendi: I know nothingessential to bring against the Copernican system, but I advise younot to express yourself for it openly and too decidedly. In secrethe seems to have been an adherent of Copernicus, to whom he de- 472 THE OPEN COURT. dicated one of the largest craters on his map of the moon. In hisbook, however, he brings forward only forty-nine arguments for. Tomb of Galileo in Firenze. From a photograph. and seventy-seven against Copernicus, among them naturally asthe weightiest the decision of the court of Inquisition. But it ishardly worth while to examine more closely the last conclusions of THE STRUGGLE REGARDING THE POSITION OF THE EARTH. 473 ancient but tenacious Aristotelianism, since through the discoveriesof Kepler and Newton the true system of the universe soon becamefor the intelligent world an absolute fact, far removed from all un-certainty and supposition. The advice of Nikolaus Moller of Kiel,in his work De indubio solis motu immotaque telluris quiete (1724) orof Pastor Gottfried Kohlreiff in his Babylonians View of Heaven(1744) to reject in the lump as suggestions of Satan the discoveriesof Copernicus, Kepler, Des Cartes, and Newton, found only a verylimited public. The Roman Curia in the year 1835, in a new edition of theIndex, struck out the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, andother earth-movers, a
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