Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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              <s>To the Moſt
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              Reverend Father
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              SEBASTIANO FANTONI,
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              General of the Order of
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              CARMELITES.</s>
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              <s>In obedience to the command of the No­
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              ble
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              Signore Vincenzo Carraffa,
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              a Neapo­
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              litan, and Knight of S.
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              John of Jeru­
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              ſalem,
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              (a perſon, to ſpeak the truth, of
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              ſo great Merit, that in him Nobility of
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              Birth, Affability of Manners, Univerſal
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              knowledge of Arts and things, Piety
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              and Vertue do all contend for prehemi­
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              nence) I reſolved with my ſelf to un­
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              dertake the Defence of the Writings of the New, or rather Re­
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              newed, and from the Duſt of Oblivion (in which it hath long
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              lain hid) lately Revived Opinion,
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              Of the Mobility of the Earth,
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              and Stability of the Sun,
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              in times paſt found out firſt by
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              Pytha­
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              goras,
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              and at laſt reduced into Practice by
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              Copernicus
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              ; who like­
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              wiſe hath deduced the Poſition of the Syſteme and Conſtitution
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              of the World and its parts from that Hypotheſis: on which
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              Subject I have formerly writ to You, Moſt Reverend Sir: But
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              in regard I am bound for
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              Rome
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              to preach there by your Com­
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              mand; and ſince this Speculation may ſeem more proper for a­
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              nother Treatiſe, to wit, a Volume of
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              Coſmography,
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              which I am
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              in hand with, and which I am daily buſie about, that it may
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              come forth in company with my
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              Compendium of the Liberal Arts,
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              which I have already finiſhed, rather than now to diſcuſs it by it
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              ſelf, I thought to forbear, imparting what I have done for the
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              preſent; Yet I was deſirous to give, in the mean time, a brief ac­
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              count of this my Determination, and to ſhew You, Moſt Reve­
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              rend Father, (to whom I owe all my indeavours, and my very
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              ſelf) the Foundations on which this Opinion may be grounded,
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              leaſt, whilſt otherwiſe it is favoured with much probability, it be
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              found in reality to be extreamly repugnant (as at firſt ſight it </s>
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