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THE "DIALOGUES" ON THE TWO SYSTEMS.
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But events were now at hand which long deferred Galileo's ardent desire to see the results of his unwearied researches and labours speedily given to the world, and which involved complications afterwards taken advantage of by his enemies to effect the ruin of their great opponent.