Galileo Publishes The Assayer
1623
Ostensibly about comets, Galileo's witty Italian treatise contained one of the most-quoted passages in the history of science: the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. Pope Urban VIII, his friend, read it with delight, which made the coming trial all the more painful. The Assayer remains a masterpiece of scientific polemic and elegant Italian prose.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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