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In 1632 Galileo published the Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi delMondo in which he stated his adherence to the Copernican system; Urban VIII, a friend of Galileo, saw himself satirized as one of the speakers in the fictitious dialogue, a benevolent but unenlightened supporter of the Aristotelian system. Galileo’s subsequent arraignment before the Inquisition has become one of the most symbolic events in the history of the freedom of thought: experimental science was threatened with extinction by pure theory. The diffusion of Galilean physics was undertaken in the face of the most stubborn adherence to Aristotelian principles.
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See H. Ludwig, Marin Mersenne und seine Musiklehre, Halle, 1935 and R.H.S., loc. cit., pp.39–51.
R. E. Chapman, Harmonie universelle and the books on instruments, The Hague, 1957, and passages in Correspondance, passim, especially Vols. II, IV and V.
A. Baillet, Vie de Descarters, Paris 1691, vol. II, pp 300–301. Baillet mentions Descartes’s distress on hearing of Niceron’s death.
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Whitmore, P.J.S. (1967). Marin Mersenne. In: The Order of Minims in Seventeenth-Century France. International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idees, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3491-3_9
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