Sara bonechi galileo biography

In Florence, Galileo's search for a house from which he could continue to make telescopic observations reveals how totally absorbed he now was in his astronomical studies.

Sara bonechi galileo biography

In 1610 he sang the praises of a house with 'an elevated terrace that reveals the whole sky all around.' And in fact a letter was addressed to him a little later 'in Porta Rossa, at the Tower of the del Meglio', but there is no other evidence of his having resided in this quarter.

Instead, he was frequently to be found living in the hills around Florence, more suitable to his work and his fragile health, always afflicted by the damp, heavy, mentally oppressive air of Florence. Viviani was to note with hindsight: 'It seemed to him that the city was in a certain way the prison of speculative minds, and that the freedom of the countryside was the book of nature, always open to the man who, with the eyes of the mind, loved to read and study it.' Galileo was the guest of Antonio de' Medici in his villa at Marignolle, a