Book:Galileo Galilei/Il Saggiatore/Historical Note

Historical Note on
Despite having been forbidden to advocate the heliocentric view of the Solar System, perceived that the new Pope,  was more liberal-minded than his predecessor.

Consequently, he dedicated to, with the famous statement:


 * The Great Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.