1622

Explore 3 quotes from the year 1622

The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God.

Tommaso Campanella

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Topic

Science and religion

Author

Tommaso Campanella

Source

The Defense of Galileo

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

1622 1620s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Campanella, Tommaso. Apologia pro Galileo [In Defense of Galileo]. Frankfurt am Main: Gottfried Tampach, 1622, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Campanella, Thomas. Defense of Galileo, translated by Richard J. Blackwell. University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, ch. 4.

To desire to have many books, and never to use them, is like a childe that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping.

Henry Peacham

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Topic

Tsundoku Books

Author

Henry Peacham

Source

The Compleat Gentleman

Language

English

Time

1622 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. London: Francis Constable, 1622.

Shall I wasting in despair
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?

George Wither

Fair Virtue

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Topic

Women's attractiveness

Author

George Wither

Source

Fair Virtue

Language

English

Time

1622 1620s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gent, George Wither. Fair Virtue, The Mistress of Phil'arete. London: John Grismand, 1622, sonnet 4, st. 1.