Di Roma, alli 3 d'Aprile 1619.
      Di V. S. molt'Ill.reDivotiss. Se.
      Giovanni Fabro Lynceo.
     
      Fuori: Al molt'Ill.re Sig.r et Padron mio Oss.moIl Sig.r Galileo Galilei Lynceo.
      Fiorenza.
     
     
     
      1384*.
     
      TOBIA MATTHEW a FRANCESCO BACONE in Londra.
      Bruxelles, 14 aprile 1619.
     
      Riproduciamo questa lettera, della quale non conosciamo alcuna fonte manoscritta, dal Tomo VI, pag. 217, dell'edizione di Londra, 1824, di The works of Francis Bacon.
     
      Most honourable Lord,
     
      It may please your Lordship, there was with me this day one Mr. Richard White, who hath spent some little time at Florence, and is now gone into England. He tells me that Galileo had answered your discourse concerning the flux and reflux of the sea, and was sending it unto me; but that Mr. White hindered him, because his answer was grounded upon a false supposition, namely that there was in the ocean a full sea but once in twenty-four hours. But now I will call upon Galileo again. This Mr. White is a discreet and understanding gentleman, though he seems a little soft, if not slow; and he hath in his hands all the works, as I take it, of Galileo, some printed, and some unprinted. He has his discourse of the flux and reflux of the sea, which was never printed; as also a discourse of the mixture of metals(949). Those which are printed in his hand are these: the Nuncius sidereus; the Macchie solari, and a third Delle cose che stanno su l'acqua, by occasion of a disputation, that was amongst learned men in Florence about that, which Archimedes wrote de insidentibus humido.