CAUSTIC HUMOR OF GALILEO used in demolish ng argument made by brother sc se ent st in a recently published biography ot of galileo some stories are told ot of the caustic humor of that bold Invest investigate igat or lotano lotario a wr ter on science having said that the babylonians used to cook eggs by whirling them in a sling galileo replied the cause of such an effect is very remo remote te from that to which it Is attributed and to find the true cause I 1 shall reason thus it if an art effect does not follow with us which followed with others at another time it Is because in our ex perl peri ments something is wanting which was the cause of the former success and if only one thing Is wanting to us that one thing Is the true cause now we have eggs and slings and strong men to whirl them and yet they will not become cooked nay 11 aney were hot at first they more quick ly become cold and since nothing la Is wanting to us but to be babylonian it follows that being babylonians Is the true cause why the eggs became cooked and not to the friction of the air which Is what I 1 wish to prove