Note 50 — Chapter XX · (continued 2)
R. G. (Robin George) Collingwood translation
Papini probably owes this passage to a small anthology of Galileo by Favaro (Florence, Barbèra, 1910), p, 303, which refers to the national edition of his Opere, iv. 631; here the passage occurs in the Considerazioni sopra il discorso di Colombo (1615).