Note 1050 — Chapter XII
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I can hardly agree with Mr. Whewell in supposing that Jordano Bruno probably had a considerable share in introducing the new opinions (of Copernicus) into England. Hist. of Inductive Sciences, i. 385. Very few in England seem to have embraced these opinions; and those who did so, like Wright and Gilbert, were men who had somewhat better reasons than the ipse dixit of a wandering Italian.