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Alas! your dear friend and servant galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which i by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.
-Galileo Galilei
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Alas! Your Dear Friend And Servant Galileo

Galileo Galilei
Alas! your dear friend and servant galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which i by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.
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