The Wonders of the Heavens

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He finished a letter with this phrase : ' Hœc imma- tura a me jam frustra leguntur, d. y.' Avhich means, * These things unripened and as yet hidden to others, are at length read by me.' Under this cryptogram, it would be difficult to discover the idea of the phases of Venus. Our fathers were very ingenious, and in tlie present time certain discoveries would not have been so greatly contested, if astronomers had some- 166 Marvels of the Heavens.
limes used the same ruse. In this phrase there are
... thirty- four letters. By placing them in another order, we get these words, in which the whole discovery is elegantly inscribed : ' Cynthise figuras emulatur mater Amorum.' ' The mother of the Loves puts on the phases of the Moon.' Gahleo was very cunning. Two months later, Father Castelli asking if Venus had phases, he replied, * My state of health is very bad, and I find it better to be in my bed than in the dew.' It was only two days before the end of the year that he announced the above discovery.

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