Galileo, Sidereus nuncius (Venice, 1610), 5v, 16v. Quoted in the translation of DrakeS. from his Discoveries and opinions of Galileo (Garden City, N.Y., 1957), 28 and 49.
2.
The situation will, hopefully, be remedied by my forthcoming work, The Milky Way: The elusive road of science, which covers the whole history of speculations and research on the Milky Way from the early Greeks to our times. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 develop the subject matter of the present paper. Here only the indispensable references are given.
3.
Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, translated with Introduction and Notes by StahlW. H. (New York, 1952), 49.
4.
Dialogus de substantiis physicis … a Vuilhelmo Aneponymo (Strasbourg, 1567; reprinted Frankfurt, 1967), 93.
5.
I am indebted for this translation to MazzaouiM., professor of Persian literature at Princeton University. For the original Arabic, see PetraitisC., The Arabic version of Aristotle's Meteorology (Beyrouth, 1967), p. 23 of the Arabic text.
6.
For the crucial passage in question, see Bibl. Vat. Cod. Lat. Urb. 206, section “Metauror”, top eight lines on [fol. 5r].
7.
P. 87 in the 1934 (London) edition.
8.
The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon, a translation by Robert BurkeB. (Philadelphia, 1928), ii, 517–9.
9.
See the modern critical edition by LindbergD. C., John Pecham and the science of optics: Perspectiva communis (Madison, 1970), 237–9.
10.
The Convivio of Dante Alighieri (London, 1906), 127–8.
11.
Joannis Buridani Quaestiones super libris quattuor de caelo et mundo, edited by MoodyE. A. (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), 217.
12.
See ThorndikeL., Latin treatises on comets between 1238 and 1368 A.D. (Chicago, 1950).
13.
See HellmanC. D., The comet of 1577: Its place in the history of astronomy (New York, 1944).
