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Quotation from Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day) by Galileo Galilei
“That the intention of the Holy Ghost, is to teach us how we shall go to Heaven, and not how Heaven goeth.”
Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, trans. Thomas Salusbury (1661)
Galileo quotes an unnamed churchman raised to the cardinalate, traditionally identified as Cesare Baronius.
Citation: "That the intention of the Holy Ghost, is to teach us how we shall go to Heaven, and not how Heaven goeth." — Galileo Galilei, Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, trans. Thomas Salusbury (1661). (id galileo-selected-writings-q4)
Portrait: Galileo.arp.300pix, Justus Sustermans, Public domain.
