I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!]) the sight of my right eye that eye whose labors (dare I say it) have had such glorious results is for ever lost. That of the left, which was and is imperfect, is rendered null by continual weeping.
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About Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was a 16th-century Italian physicist and astronomer. Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence. Read more on Wikipedia →

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