Excerpt from Le Opere di Galileo Galilei, Vol. 12 Per la pubblicazione di questa detta scrittura cessarono final mente lo opposizioni contre l'opera di Galileo, la quale se fu fatta bersaglio di ignoranti detrattori, trovo pure chi bravaiiieiue ne assunse la difesa nella persona di Giovanni Bardi gentiluomo fio. Rentmo, il quale diede in Roma alle stampe un Opuscolo dedicate al principe Federico Cesi, col titolo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.