Letter to Kepler
Time: Aug, 1610
Place: Italy
Details: In a letter to Kepler of August 1610, Galileo complained that some of the philosophers who opposed his discoveries had refused even to look through a telescope: My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth.
‹ Earlier in historyGalileo used a telescope at close range to magnify the parts of insects1610 Later in history ›Galileo observed that Venus exhibited a full set of phases similar to that of the MoonSep, 1610
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