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Matteo, an Italian mechanician. In optics, his freatest achievement was the manufacture of the object-gla es, through which Ca ini discovered two satellites of Saturn. He invented the illuminated dial for clocks. _ Campanile, a tower for the reception ‘of bells, principally used for church purposes, but now sometimes for domestic edifices. The most remarkable of the campaniles is_ that at Pisa, commonly called the “ Leaning Tower.” It is cylindrical in form, and surrounded by eight stories of columns, placed over one another, each having its entablature. The height is about 150 feet to the platform, whence a plumb-line lowered falls on the leaning side nearly 13 feet outside the base of the building. The campanile of St. Mark, dominating all the surrounding buildings of St. Mark’s Square, Venice, was the most conspicuous landmark of the city for over 1,000 years. The tower was 325 feet high and 42 feet square at the base. On the morning of July 14, 1902; it fell with a great crash into the square. The church of St. Mark and the prince of the Doges were not hurt, but the campanile in falling carried away the Sansovino Loggetta and the library of the Royal Palace.