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Add. MS a/202/130
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Letter of Augustus De Morgan
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- 16 Sept. 1856 (Creation)
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7 Camden Street - ADM has dislocated his shoulder. Regarding WW's inquiry concerning Galileo he has consulted Libri could not 'find the least ground for supposing that any pope had done anything...I feel confident that all the rumour is a mere sham'. Shares a story told by Biot to Libri, who quoted the Chief Inquisitor in Rome that he would not allow a professor at Sapienza university to teach the motion of the earth.
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De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth, Memoir of Augustus De Morgan. London, 1882.