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the sun.
                                            [Illustration]
                                            [3] The ruled logarithmic paper we now
                                         use was not then to be had by going into
                                         a stationer’s shop. Else he would have ac-
                                         complished this in five minutes.
                                            6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE–
                                         NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS,
                                         ETC.
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