TABLE.
ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,
TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF
LIVES OF
EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MENOF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL .
A. D.1564.
1581.
1600.
1592.
1593-
1598.
1604.
1606.
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(15th of February.) His Birth - • - - 1
His Ancestors - - - - - - l 2
His early Years - .3
A Scholar of Arts at the University of Pisa - - - 3
Studies Medicine under Andrew Caisalpinus - 3
His Work on the Hydrostatical Balance - - - 4
Guido Ubaldi engages him to investigate the Centre of Gravityof solid Bodies - - - . 4
Appointed Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Pisa 4Giordano Bruno burnt - - - - - 4
Galileo attacks by Argument and Experiment the AristotelianLaws of Gravity - - - - - 5
Opposition of the Aristotelians to his Discoveries - - 6
A Method of clearing out the Harbour of Leghorn proposedby Don Giovanni de* Medici - - - - 6
Galileo opposes this Opinion ; is persecuted in consequence - 6
He obtains the Professorship of Mathematics at the Universityof Padua .... - 6
Account of his Conversion to the Copernican System - - 7
He meets with an Accident - - - - 9
He completes his first Engagement at Padua . - 9
Is re-elected other six Years - .... 9
Accusation brought against him with respect to Marina Gamba 10A new Star excites the Attention of Galileo - - 10
Again re-elected to the Professorship of Padua - - 10
His increasing Popularity - - - - 10
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