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was unceasingly active in his seclusion at Arcetri. In the year 1636 he completed his famous "Dialoghi delle Nuove Scienze." He also exerted himself, like a loving father who wishes to see his children provided for before he dies, about the preservation and republication of his works which were quite out of print. But all these efforts were frustrated by envy, ecclesiastical intolerance, and the unfavourable times. His cherished scheme of bringing out an edition of his collected works could neither be carried out by the French mathematician, Carcavy, who had warmly taken up the subject, nor by the Elzevirs through the mediation of Micanzio. He had also to give up his