Pericles Diamandi was investigated by the same commission in 1893. See Alfred Binet, _Psychologie des Grands Calculateurs et Joueurs d'Echecs_, Paris, 1894. [133] John Flamsteed's (1646-1719) "old white house" was the first Greenwich observatory. He was the Astronomer Royal and first head of this observatory. [134] It seems a pity that De Morgan should not have lived to lash those of our time who are demanding only the immediately practical in mathematics. His satire would have been worth the reading against those who seek to stifle the science they pretend to foster. [135] Ismael Bouillaud, or Boulliau, was born in 1605 and died at Paris in 1694. He was well known as an astronomer, mathematician, and jurist. He lived with De Thou at Paris, and accompanied him to Holland. He traveled extensively, and was versed in the astronomical work of the Persians and Arabs. It was in his _Astronomia philolaica, opus novum_ (Paris, 1645) that he attacked Kepler's laws. His tables were shown to be erroneous by the fact that the solar eclipse did not take place as predicted by him in 1645. [136] As it did, until 1892, when Airy had reached the ripe age of ninety-one. [137] _Didaci a Stunica ... In Job commentaria_ appeared at Toledo in 1584. [138] "The false Pythagorean doctrine, absolutely opposed to the Holy Scriptures, concerning the mobility of the earth and the immobility of the sun." [139] Paolo Antonio Foscarini (1580-1616), who taught theology and philosophy at Naples and Messina, was one of the first to champion the theories of Copernicus. This was in his _Lettera sopra l'opinione de' Pittagorici e del Copernico, della mobilita della Terra e stabilita del Sole, e il nuovo pittagorico sistema del mondo_, 4to, Naples, 1615. The condemnation of the Congregation was published in the following spring, and in the year of Foscarini's death at the early age of thirty-six. [140] "To be wholly prohibited and condemned," because "it seeks to show that the aforesaid doctrine is consonant with truth and is not opposed to the Holy Scriptures." [141] "As repugnant to the Holy Scriptures and to its true and Catholic interpretation (which in a Christian man cannot be tolerated in the least), he does not hesitate to treat (of his subject) '_by hypothesis_', but he even adds '_as most true_'!" [142] "To the places in which he discusses not by hypothesis but by making assertions concerning the position and motion of the earth."