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gentlemen of the Senate

gentlemen of the arsenal of Venice as

professor of mathematics at your

University of Padua and chief engineer

in your great arsenal your obedient

servant has always counted his privilege

to offer you such discoveries and

inventions as might prove lucrative to

the manufacturers and verge of our

vanishing Republic

thus I tend to you this my optical tube

or telescope in your great arsenal and

constructed on the most scientific and

Christian principles the product of 17

years patience research

waste of time screener you'll be able to

pay the butcher old friend yes they make

money out of it gentlemen

our republic can congratulate itself not

only because this new acquisition will

be another feather in the cap or finish

only because our own mr. Galilei has so

generously handed over this fresh

product of his teeming brain entirely to

you so that you can manufacture as many

of these highly saleable articles as you

please gentlemen has it also occurred to

you that with the help of this

remarkable new instrument the enemy feet

will be visible to us a full two hours

before we are visible to them gentlemen

mr. Galilean treats you to accept the

instrument from the hands miss charming

daughter Virginia

you do realize it's more than a

money-making gadget I turned it on the

moon last night astronomy has been held

back for three generations

it's extraordinary they could see the

fortifications of santa rosita one thing

it doesn't improve yes I see you how to

covered in red do you know what the

Milky Way is made of now I do

congratulations mr. Galilei your extra

500 Scootie a year are secured

oh of course the 500 scudi republic

always has to find a pretext to the

world it's great man what incentive

would great men have otherwise mr.

Galilee

what's Mars did I do it alright

seemed alright to me I think they're

pleased with Bob I think I'm beginning

to understand something about science

the edge of the Crescent is jagged all

along the dark part the other shiny

Crescent bright particles of light keep

appearing one after the other and

growing larger and finally merge with

the bright Crescent how do you explain

those spots of light my friend it can't

be true it is true the high mountain

segredo on the moon

yes gigantic mountains the spots of

light are Peaks catching the Rising Sun

the slopes of the mountains are still

dark if you look again you can see the

sunlight moving down from the peaks into

the valleys this gives the lie to only

astronomy that's been taught for the

last two thousand years yes

what you're seeing now has been seen by

no other man beside myself

but the moon can't be an earth with

mountains and valleys like our own any

more than the earth can be a planet the

moon and the earth is a planet simply

another heavenly body one among

thousands as the moon appears to us so

we appear to the moon from the moon the

earth looks sometimes like a crescent

sometimes like the half globe sometimes

a full globe and sometimes it's not

visible at all

Galileo this is frightening I have

discovered something else something even

more astonishing there it is your

miraculous optical tube do you know this

product of 17 years of patient research

will be on sale tomorrow for two Scootie

apiece the telescope down at the Harbor

at this very moment a ship from Holland

is unloading a full cargo of hammer what

have you to say when I think of the poor

gentlemen of Venice who thought they

were getting exclusive rights why when

they took their first look through the

glass it was only by the merest chance

they didn't see a peddler seven times

enlarged selling tubes exactly like it

on the street collar mr. Pirelli with

the help of this instrument mr. Galilei

has made discoveries that will

revolutionize our conception of the

universe mr. Galilei has provided the

town with a first-rate water pump the

irrigation works you design function

spin deadly how was i to expected this

not so fast for you II may be a bit of a

sensational gadget certain of the stars

appear to have regular movements if

there were a clock in the sky it could

be seen from anywhere

no listen to you listen to you before

let's reward my friendship you made me

the laughingstock of the town oh yes you

can now if you've got your money but let

me tell you this you have destroyed my

faith in a lot of things mr. Galilei

he's always cheered when he's angry

did you hear a world where you can't do

business makes him sick did you know

about these Dutch instruments I'd heard

about them but the one I made for the

Arsenal was twice as good as any

Dutchman's besides I needed the money

how can I work with a text collector on

the doorstep in my daughter will never

acquire a husband unless she has a dowry

besides I like books all kinds of books

and you know I don't think well unless I

eat will I get my best ideas over a good

meal and a bottle of wine only I could

have five years to do nothing but

research what about Copernicus is theory

that the Earth rotates around the Sun I

noticed something through the telescope

on Tuesday which might prove a step

towards even then there are four lesser

stars near Jupiter I haven't done them

on Monday but didn't take any particular

notes of their position on Tuesday I

looked again I could have sworn that

moved I've recorded their positions no

they've changed again tell me what you

see

I see three where's the fourth

here are the charts let's get down to

work before must have moved round behind

Jupiter well we can't see it

that means there's a small star

revolving around a big star Cuba can't

be fixed to anything if there's another

star revolving around it well now that

the stars are supposed to be fixed -

don't stand there like a stock fish as

if you are afraid it isn't true

I'm afraid it is true why what do you

think is going to happen to you when you

say that there's another Sun with other

Earth's revolving around it that this

earth is a planet and not the center of

the universe and that there's nothing

but stars no difference between Earth

and heaven no heaven at all what do you

mean God where is God any more than he

lowed you you're a human being where is

God in your system of the universe

beside us Oh nowhere 10 years ago a man

was burned at the stake for saying that

Giordano Bruno spoke too soon

do you really believe that proof makes

any difference all the difference in the

world I believe in man that means I

believe in reason how can you mistake

man's contemptible I know they don't

care horse they want to sell even a

horse a donkey when they want to buy it

if I were to drop a stone and tell

people it didn't fall do you think that

accepted no the seduction of proof is

too strong in the long run no one can

resist it good morning father

absolutely I'm going to Matins with mrs.

sati you Devika is coming too how was

the night father

yeah what for it isn't a toy what are

you submitting specs by the side of the

big star I must find a way of drawing

attention to them perhaps I'll call him

de Medici and stars to please the Duke

of Florence by the way we may move to

Florence I've written to his Highness

ass-kickin if you can use me as court

mathematician shall we the court Galilee