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ful child could not have a greater affection forhis parent than he had for his illustrious master.He considered it as the pride of his life that hehad been one of his last disciples ; and whenLewis the XlVth gave him a pension, and ap-pointed him one of the foreign associates of theAcademy of Sciences at Paris, he built a houseat Florence, and, after paying a tribute of gra-titude to the French monarch, erected a magni-ficent monument to his beloved master Galileo.

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