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a learned speculative philosopher, who was
condemned to be burnt at the stake.
Galileo died on Christmas Day, 1642–
the day of Newton’s birth. The further con-
sideration of the grand field of discovery
opened out by Galileo with his telescopes
must be now postponed, to avoid disconti-
nuity in the history of the intellectual de-
velopment of this period, which lay in the
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