DIALOGO DI GALILEOO GALILEILINGEO

The front piece of Galileo’s ‘Dialogue’ (1632). Aristotle (left), shown as a feeble Old man; Ptolemy (centre), wearing a turban because he comes from Egypt; and Copernicus, wearing the clothes of a Polish priest, stand on the shore of the Floretie port of Livorno debating questions of physics and astronomy. But Copernicus looks nothing like the Image of Copernicus that appears in other source, where he is always portrayed as a young and clean-shaven . Indeed, the Latin translation by Bergnegger soon corrected this ‘error’, providing a more accurate representation of Copernicus. It seems Galileo has decided to present himself in the role of Copernicus. Over the heads of the three philosophers hangs the curtain which rises at the beginning of a theatrical performance -- a device that was used by Galileo’s engraver, Sterano della Bella, for the frontpieces of plays. Thus Galileo implies that the argument presented in the book are not to be regarded as true, for Copernicanism had been condemned by the Church.

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Around the same time Galileo made his first microscopes, the eccentric Dutch inventor, instrument maker, and engineer Cornelis Drebbel – then living in London – was also constructing and selling his own microscopes. Drebbel, another artist-natural philosopher had studied engraving with the famed engraver Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem; he later married Goltzius’s sister Sophia and moved to England. . . . . Constantijn Huygens, who spent much time with him while on his diplomatic mission with the Prince of Orange in London, recalled that “in appearance he is a Dutch farmer, but his learned talk is reminiscent of the sages of Samos and Sicily.” their relationship was warm; Constantijn remarked to his parents that he had “possessed Drebbel for a whole year, and he possessed me too, his possessor, and not a favourable one, unless I mistake me; this he proved to me during many lessons being more affectionate to me than to any of his friends. (His parents promptly warned Constantijn not to spend too much time with this “magician.” ) ~ Page 62

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