When Galileo sent his treatise on the earth's motion to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he told him that it was meet that that which the higher authorities had determined should be believed and obeyed, and that he considered his treatise "as poetry or as a dream, and as such I desire your highness to receive it."
Galileok Toscanako duke nagusiari Lurraren mugikortasunari buruzko bere eskribua bidaltzean, nagusien erabakiak obeditzea eta sinestea komeni dela ziotson, eta eskribu hura "poesiatzat edo, agian, amestzat" zeukala "eta horrelakotzat har beza berorren gorentasunak".