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 Kepler Rothman Galileo Gilbert (diurnal motion) Foscarini Didacus Stunica (sic) Ismael Bullialdus Jacob Lansberg Peter Herigonus Gassendi,—"but submits his intellect captive to the Church decrees." Descartes "inclines to this belief." A. L. Politianus Bruno

Alfraganus Macrobius Cleomedes Petrus Aliacensis George Buchanan Maurolycus Clavius Barocius Michael Neander Telesius Martinengus Justus-Lipsius Scheiner Tycho Tasso Scipio Claramontius Michael Incofer Fromundus Jacob Ascarisius Julius Cæsar La Galla Tanner Bartholomæus Amicus Antonio Rocce Marinus Mersennius Polacco Kircher Spinella Pineda Lorinis Mastrius Bellutris Poncius Delphinus Elephantutius

Riccioli nevertheless viewed the Copernican system with much sympathy. After a full statement of it, he comments; "We have not yet exhausted the full profundities of the Copernican hypothesis, for the deeper one digs into it, the more ingenious and valuable subtilties [sic] may one unearth." Then he adds that "the greatness of Copernicus has never been sufficiently appreciated nor will it be,—that man who accomplished what no astronomer before him had scarcely been able even to suggest without an insane machinery of spheres, for by a 82