There is an introduction in English, and a dedicatory epistle to Owen Oglethorpe, president of Magdalen College, Oxford at that time and when Crowley had been a student and fellow there.

On March 12, 1610, Galileo wrote his dedicatory letter to the Duke of Tuscany, and the next day sent a copy to the Grand Duke, hoping to obtain the Grand Duke ’ s support as quickly as possible.

César-Auguste went directly to the Desmousseauxs ', wrote out the piece from memory, and presented it to Félicité with the dedicatory line.

On the occasion, in 1948, of Eliot's entry into the realm of sexagenarianism, Every wrote for a dedicatory compendium a piece on the poet's religious leanings and the broader significance thereof.

On the Suicide By My Side album's booklet, the band wrote a dedicatory to Jaska for, on to their own words: " saving our tour ".

The American objectivist poet, Louis Zukofsky, wrote a dedicatory poem to Serly, published in the avant-garde magazine, Blues, in February 1929.

Among his original compositions Musurus wrote a dedicatory epigram for Zacharias Kallierges ' edition of the Etymologicum Magnum, in which he praised the genius of the Cretans.

His efforts were also overshadowed by Galileo Galilei's improvement of the telescope in 1609, following its introduction in the Netherlands in 1608.

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

In 1923, Dewey wrote the introduction to Alexander's Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual.

She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

In 1992, he wrote the introduction melody for the European football championship, which was organised by Sweden that year.

Watterson wrote the introduction to the first volume of The Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

He wrote the introduction to the liner notes and is visiting colleges across the nation discussing the significance of the set.

Prolific American writer Joyce Carol Oates wrote an introduction for a collection of Lovecraft stories.

Only fragments of the latter's work survive ( and the authenticity of these is debatable ) yet they allow us glimpses into the kind of tradition within which Herodotus wrote his own Histories, as for example in the introduction to Hecataeus's work, Genealogies:

In the introduction of the 1892 edition of Engels ( 1844 ) he notes that most of the conditions he wrote about in 1844 had been greatly improved.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

The symbolic initiation of this new phase in Sartre ’ s work is packaged in the introduction he wrote for a new journal, Les Temps Modernes, in October 1945.

Kenji Tokitsu has suggested that the accepted birth date of 1584 for Musashi is wrong, as it is primarily based on a literal reading of the introduction to the Go Rin No Sho where Musashi states that the years of his life " add up to 60 " ( yielding the twelfth year of the Tensho era, or 1584, when working backwards from the well-documented date of composition ), when it should be taken in a more literary and imprecise sense, indicating not a specific age but merely that Musashi was in his sixties when he wrote it.

Anderson wrote Uncleftish Beholding, an introduction to atomic theory, using only Germanic-rooted words.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

He also wrote an introduction to an edition of Frederick Rolfe ( Baron Corvo ) ’ s translation into English of Nicolas ’ s French translation.

In 1990, Colin Escott wrote an introduction to Orbison's biography published in a CD box set: " Orbison was the master of compression.

Waits wrote the following introduction for the Tompkins Square compilation People Take Warning – Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913 – 1938:

She wrote the foreword to his collection Death: The High Cost of Living ; he in turn wrote the introduction to Comic Book Tattoo.

King wrote an introduction for a new edition of the book to mark the centenary of William Golding's birth in 2011.

Author Jack Higgins wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who had accompanied her on the mission in the Limousin, wrote the introduction.

Galileo wrote " Waves are produced by the vibrations of a sonorous body, which spread through the air, bringing to the tympanum of the ear a stimulus which the mind interprets as sound ", a remarkable statement that points to the beginnings of physiological and psychological acoustics.

When Galileo later complained of rumors to the effect that he had been forced to abjure and do penance, Bellarmine wrote out a certificate denying the rumors, stating that Galileo had merely been notified of the decree and informed that, as a consequence of it, the Copernican doctrine could not be " defended or held ".

On January 7, 1610, Galileo wrote a letter containing the first mention of Jupiter ’ s moons.

On February 13, 1610, Galileo wrote to the Grand Duke ’ s secretary:

In his 1610 treatise Sidereus Nuncius, Galileo Galilei wrote, " the galaxy is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

In a letter to Galileo in 1610, he wrote, " Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will brave even that void.

At the time, such speculation was of a rather rarefied sort, and was limited to astronomers like Christiaan Huygens who wrote a book, Cosmotheoros ( 1698 ) considering the possibility of life on other planets ; or to philosophers like Campanella, who wrote in defense of Galileo.

In 1623, Galileo Galilei wrote:

In 1632, shortly after the publication of Galileo's Dialogues of the New Science, Torricelli wrote to Galileo of reading it " with the delight [...] of one who, having already practiced all of geometry most diligently [...] and having studied Ptolemy and seen almost everything of Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Longomontanus, finally, forced by the many congruences, came to adhere to Copernicus, and was a Galileian in profession and sect ".

Late in 1613, Galileo's former student Benedetto Castelli, a Benedictine monk, wrote to Galileo about the events at a recent dinner with the Grand Duke Cosimo II de ' Medici, he then wrote a letter to Justin the German Artist.

In this letter was a very direct paragraph in which Galileo wrote " I hold that the Sun is located at the centre of the revolutions of the heavenly orbs and does not change place, and that the Earth rotates on itself and moves around it.

Galileo wrote his Letter to Grand Duchess Christina, expounding on the relationship between science and revelation, in 1615.

Sarpi wrote on projectile motion in the period 1578 – 84, in the tradition of Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia ; and then again in reporting on Guidobaldo del Monte's ideas in 1592, possibly by then having met Galileo Galilei.

Peiresc also wrote letters to Galileo, Pierre Gassendi and Tommaso Campanella, whom he defended when they were arrested by the Inquisition.

" In response to an enquiry about the same sermon from the botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley, Darwin stated that " Dr Pusey was mistaken in imagining that I wrote the Origin with any relation whatever to Theology ", and added that " many years ago when I was collecting facts for the Origin, my belief in what is called a personal God was as firm as that of Dr Pusey himself, & as to the eternity of matter I have never troubled myself about such insoluble questions .— Dr Pusey's attack will be as powerless to retard by a day the belief in evolution as were the virulent attacks made by divines fifty years ago against Geology, & the still older ones of the Catholic church against Galileo ".

In 1814 Venturi wrote Commentarj sopra la storia e le teorie dell ' ottica ( Commentaries about the history and theory of optics ), which included Hero of Alexandria's treatise on the dioptra and from 1818 to 1821 he compiled, edited and published many of Galileo's manuscripts and letters in Memorie e lettere inedite finora o disperse di Galileo Galilei, ordinate e illustrate con annotazioni.

He wrote on the lives and works of great thinkers, such as Lucretius, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Mikhail Lomonosov, Michael Faraday, and Pyotr Lebedev, among others.

Of Maria Celeste, Galileo once wrote, " is a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me.

* Alessandro Marsili – Highly thought of by Galileo who wrote a letter to Prince Leopold in 1640 praising him.

He wrote a book, " Galileo and his Judges " ( London, 1889 ), on the question of Galileo, and translated, under the title " Rome and her captors " ( London, 1875 ), the letters collected by Count Henri d ' Ideville upon the Roman question of 1867-70.