An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1850, New Haven, Yale University Press, p. 107. 18  Ibid., p. 116. 6  BIS central bankers’ speeches  of high science had always looked down on them with contempt.
Galileo had the courage and the intelligence to make use of these lenses for his astronomical research, artfully combining them to achieve a power of magnification that was truly exceptional for the time.