From Naples to Goa and Back: A Secretive Galilean Messenger and a Radical Hermeneutist (2009)
In 1623 an Italian traveller, Pietro della Valle, reached the Portuguese colony of Goa in western India, after nine years of travel in the Near East. That same year, Christopher Borrus, a Jesuit on his way back to Italy from doing missionary work in Cochin-China (southern Vietnam), also stopped in Goa. The two men --- della Valle, who was trained in Near Eastern languages, and Borrus, who was skilled in astronomy, cartography and mathematics --- worked together to translate into Persian a short Latin work of Borrus's on the Tychonic system. As it has come down to us, the translation takes the form of a Persian-Italian manuscript letter made into a booklet. Addressed to a Persian astronomer named Zayyn al-din al-Lari, it eventually became part of the collections of the Vatican Library. Such a collocation of evidence fused the vast geographical and cultural gaps among the three men and extended to the East what has become known as `the Galileo affair'.
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