Giorgio Coresio

He was obliged to resign his chair either because it was discovered that he secretly professed the Greek Orthodox faith, or because of his mental illness - he is said to have had daily visions of saints.

Coresio took part in this discussion, together with Vincenzo di Grazia, maintaining the traditional Aristotelian view that ice was denser than water, only floating because of its shape.

[6]: 171 Coresio's contribution to this dispute was his 1612 work Operetta intorno al Galleggiare de Corpi Solidi (Short Essay on the Floating of Solid Bodies).

It was a common belief in the past that Galileo had conducted an experiment by dropping objects of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to prove his point, but he never claimed to have done so and it is now considered doubtful that he did.

It cited Giorgio Coresio as one of the ' outstanding scholars and experts in Greek affairs' who were consulted when an earlier edition of the prayers (Euchologion) was produced.