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Kepler
Rothman
Galileo
Gilbert (diurnal motion)
Foscarini
Didacus Stunica (sic)
Ismael Bullialdus
Jacob Lansberg
Peter Herigonus
Gassendi,—"but submits his intellect captive to the Church decrees."
Descartes "inclines to this belief."
A. L. Politianus
Bruno
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Alfraganus
Macrobius
Cleomedes
Petrus Aliacensis
George Buchanan
Maurolycus
Clavius
Barocius
Michael Neander
Telesius
Martinengus
Justus-Lipsius
Scheiner
Tycho
Tasso
Scipio Claramontius
Michael Incofer
Fromundus
Jacob Ascarisius
Julius Cæsar La Galla
Tanner
Bartholomæus Amicus
Antonio Rocce
Marinus Mersennius
Polacco
Kircher
Spinella
Pineda
Lorinis
Mastrius
Bellutris
Poncius
Delphinus
Elephantutius
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Riccioli nevertheless viewed the Copernican system with much sympathy. After a full statement of it, he comments; "We have not yet exhausted the full profundities of the Copernican hypothesis, for the deeper one digs into it, the more ingenious and valuable subtilties may one unearth." Then he adds that "the greatness of Copernicus has never been sufficiently appreciated nor will it be,—that man who accomplished what no astronomer before him had scarcely been able even to suggest without an insane machinery of spheres, for by a
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