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Letter from Galileo Galilei, Arcetri, to Nicholas Fabri de Peiresc, 1635 February 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
102223
Accession number
MA 1064.2
Creator
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Display Date
Arcetri, 1635 February 21
Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28.0 cm
Notes
Docketed.
High reserve.
Housed in a box with a letters of Tycho Brahe, Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in circle.
Provenance
Purchased from G. Wells in 1928.
Summary
Protesting the persecution he suffers at the hands of those who charge falsely that his teachings are hostile to the church, and lamenting the prohibition against reprinting any of this work.