Milton visiting Galileo - painting by Tito Lessi. Seeking Florentine inspiration, 30-year-old Milton visited 77-year-old Galileo. Galileo had been found guilty of heresy by the 1633 Inquisition, for writing that the Earth revolves around the Sun. When Milton met him, Galileo was blind and sequestered under house arrest. John Milton (9 1608 –1674) was an English poet and served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious and political instability, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost
Milton visiting Galileo - painting by Tito Lessi. Seeking Florentine inspiration, 30-year-old Milton visited 77-year-old Galileo. Galileo had been found guilty of heresy by the 1633 Inquisition, for writing that the Earth revolves around the Sun. When Milton met him, Galileo was blind and sequestered under house arrest. John Milton (9 1608 –1674) was an English poet and served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious and political instability, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is often considered to be one of the greatest works of English literature. Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (1564-1742) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy," the "father of modern physics," the "father of the scientific method," and the "father of modern science." Tito Lessi was an Italian painter who died in 1917.
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