Pisa University: lecturer post

Document in Italian embodying the official decision of the ecclesiastical Authorities in Florence to continue payment of a salary to Galileo as Lecturer at Pisa University, though he was at the time non-resident there, and did not give any lectures. (Contemporary copy). Produced in Florence.

1629

1 volume 8 ll. folio. 30 x 22 cm. Unbound.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1929.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Collection of Count Paolo Galletti [ -1914], where it formed part of his Galileo Museum at his villa at Arcetri, called the 'Torre del Gallo'.