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Show CAU8TIC HUMOR OF GALILEO. Uted In Demolishing Argument Made by Brother Scientist. In a recently published biography ot Galileo somo stories arc told ot tho caustic humor of that bold Investigator. Investigat-or. Lotarlo Sarsl, a writer on science, having said tint tho Babylonians used to cook eggs by whirling them In a sling, Galileo ropllod: "Tho cause of such an effect Is very remote from that to which It Is attributed and to find tho truo cause I shall reason thus: "If an effect does not follow with us which followed with others at another time It Is because In our ox-pnrlments ox-pnrlments something Is wanting which was tho causo of the former success; and if only ono thing Is wanting to ua that ono thing is the truo cause. Now wo havo cegs and Bllngs and strong men to wiirl them, and yot they will not become cooked; nay, It tnoy were hot at first they moro quickly quick-ly become cold; and since nothing Is wnntlng to us but to be Dabylonian It follows that being Uabylonlaus Is the true causo why tlio eggs becamo cooked and not to the friction of tho air, which Is what I wish to prove." |