Galileo : his life and work / by J. J. Fahie.

  • John Joseph Fahie
Date:
1903
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    1589] his favour.^ Towards the end of May 1589, Galileo and a young Florentine patrician of his acquaintance, Ricasoli Baroni, had decided to seek together their fortunes in the East, when the Mathematical Professorship at Pisa again fell vacant. Once more he made application for the post, and in due time, and through the joint influence of the Marquis Guidobaldo and his brother. Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, he was awarded the prize. This was in July 1589, when he was barely twenty-five and a half years old. To be sure, the salary was insignificant, only 60 scudi per annum, or about of our money. Moreover, the appointment was only for three years, but renewable. But, any port in a storm ; and in Galileo’s needy circumstances, even this wretched salary was not to be rejected ; besides, the office would enable him to make something in addition by private tuition. ^ See Favaro’s “Galileo e Suor Maria Celeste,” Florence, 1891, p. 25.