sarsi

Updated: August 10, 2026

But, however this may have been, the treatise of Guiducci afforded a favourable point of attack to Galileo's enemies, and the dangerous task was entrusted to Horatio Grassi, a learned Jesuit, who, in a work entitled The Astronomical and Philosophical Balance, criticised the discourse on comets, under the feigned name of Lotario Sarsi. Discorso delle Comete.

Sir David Brewster - The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler