Note 474 — APPENDIX D. A Translation of a Letter by Thomas Feyens On the Question: Is It True That the Heavens Are Moved and the Earth Is at Rest? (February, 1619)
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Feyens probably refers here to Francesco Patrizzi, who was an enemy of the peripatetics and a great supporter of platonism. He died in 1597 at Rome, where Clement VIII had conferred on him the chair of philosophy.