The Sleepwalkers (294 page)

Therefore,
desiring
to
remove
from
the
minds
of
your
Eminences,
and
of
all
faithful
Christians,
this
vehement
suspicion
justly
conceived
against
me,
with
sincere
heart
and
unfeigned
faith
I
abjure,
curse,
and
detest
the
aforesaid
errors
and
heresies
and
generally
every
other
error,
heresy,
and
sect
whatsoever
contrary
to
the
Holy
Church,
and
I
swear
that
in
future
I
will
never
again
say
or
assert,
verbally
or
in
writing,
anything
that
might
furnish
occasion
for
a
similar
suspicion
regarding
me;
but,
should
I
know
any
heretic
or
person
suspected
of
heresy,
I
will
denounce
him
to
this
Holy
Office
or
to
the
Inquisitor
or
Ordinary
of
the
place
where
I
may
be.
Further,
I
swear
and
promise
to
fulfil
and
observe
in
their
integrity
all
penances
that
have
been,
or
that
shall
be,
imposed
upon
me
by
this
Holy
Office.
And,
in
the
event
of
my
contravening
(which
God
forbid!)
any
of
these
my
promises
and
oaths,
I
submit
myself
to
all
the
pains
and
penalties
imposed
and
promulgated
in
the
sacred
canons
and
other
constitutions,
general
and
particular,
against
such
delinquents.
So
help
me
God
and
these
His
Holy
Gospels,
which
I
touch
with
my
hands."
(Ibid.,
p.
312.)

44

Ibid.,
p. 315.

45

During
his Padua days, Galileo had lived with a Venetian woman, Marina
Gamba, who bore him two daughters and a son. He parted from her when
he moved to the Court of the Medicis in Florence.

46

Opere
,
XVII,
p.
247.

Part
V Chapter III. THE NEWTONIAN SYNTHESIS

1

There
is,
however,
no
direct
evidence
that
Descartes
derived
his
vortices
from
Kepler.

2

William
Gilbert,
On
the
Loadstone
and
Magnetic
Bodies
,
transl.
Mottelay,
New
York,
1893,
quoted
by
Burtt,
op.
cit.,
p.
157
f.

2a

This
illustration
is
from
D.
Bohm
Causality
and
Chance
in
Modern
Physics
,
London,
1957,
p.
43
f.

3

Third
Letter
to
Bentley
,
Opere
,
IV.

4

The
formula
for
the
centrifugal
force
had
been
found
by
Huygens,
in
his
Horologium
Oscillatorium
(
1673),

EPILOGUE

1

See
Insight
and
Outlook
,
London
and
New
York,
1949.

2

Cf.
i.a.
Ernest
Jones,
"The
Nature
of
Genius",
British
Medical
Journal,
4
.
8.
1956.

3

H.
Butterfield, op. cit., p. 105.

4

To
Herwart
,
9-10.
4.
1599.

5

Ca.,
p. 105 f.

6

Tertius
Interveniens
.

7

Ca.,
p. 314.

8

Ibid.,
p. 320.

9

Quoted
by Pachter, op. cit., p. 225.

10

Il
Saggiatore,
Opere
,
VI,
p.
232.

11

First
Letter
to
Bentley
,
Opere
,
IV.

12

Third
Letter
to
Bentley
,
ibid.

13

Quoted
by Bunt, p. 289.

14

Op.
cit., pp. 233-8.

15

Quoted
by Butterfield, p. 90.

15a

The
Bohr
theory
to
which
this
refers,
was
the
last
which,
in
spite
of
its
paradoxa,
provided
a
kind
of
imaginable
model
of
the
atom.
It
has
now
been
abandoned
in
favour
of
a
purely
mathematical
treatment,
which
banishes
from
atomic
physics
the
very
idea
of
a
"model",
with
the
sternness
of
the
Second
Commandment
("Thou
shalt
not
make
unto
thee
any
graven
image").

16

An
Outline
of
Philosophy
,
pp.
163
and
165.

17

J.
W.
N.
Sullivan,
The
Limitations
of
Science
,
New
York,
1949,
p.
68.

18

Quoted
by Sullivan, p. 146.

19

The
Mysterious
Universe
,
Cambridge,
1937,
p.
122
f.

20

Ibid.,
p. 137.

21

Ibid.,
p. 100.

22

Op.
cit., p. 164.

23

Sullivan,
op. cit., p. 147.

24

Eddington,
The
Domain
of
Physical
Science
,
quoted
by
Sullivan,
p.
141.

25

An
Outline
of
Philosophy
,
p.
163.

26

L.
L.
Whyte,
Accent
on
Form
,
London,
1955,
p.
33.

27

Space
and
Spirit
,
London,
1946,
p.
103.

28

Burtt,
op. cit., p. 256 f.

29

The
Trail
of
the
Dinosaur
,
London
and
New
York,
1955,
p.
245
seq.
I
have
borrowed
several
other
passages
from
that
essay,
without
quotation
marks.