26, for account of Father Clavius.

It is interesting to know that Clavius, in his last years, acknowledged that "the whole system of the heavens is broken down, and must be mended," Cantu, Histoire Universelle, vol.
xv, p.478.See Th.

Martin, Galilee, pp.

34, 208, and 266; also Heller, Geschichte der Physik, Stuttgart, 1882, vol.i, p.366.For the original documents, see L'Epinois, pp.34 and 36; or better, Gebler's careful edition of the trial (Die Acten des Galileischen Processes, Stuttgart, 1877), pp.

47 et seq.