Galilei, Galileo, Finocchiaro, Maurice A. books

The Essential Galileo (2010)

This desire has given us the images of famous men, sculptured in marble, or fashioned in bronze, as a memorial of them to future ages; to the same feeling we owe the erection of statues, both ordinary and equestrian; hence, as the poet2 says, has originated expenditure, mounting to the stars, upo...