.. or hinder them
William of Baskerville’s astrolabe in The Name Of
The Rose
One Ring to rule them all
Lyra's alethiometer in His Dark Materials
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We know how Galileo went blind and was imprisoned for publishing his heretical science. What is little known is the meeting he had with John Milton which resulted in a similar fate for the bright young poet. Espousing revolutionary change arguably as a result of meeting Galileo, he fell from a high place to the hell of Death Row and blindness before he could publish his masterpiece Paradise Lost.
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