Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              ſhall be an eaſie task; for I reply, that the moveable paſſeth by
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              the aforeſaid degrees, but the paſſage is made without ſtaying in </s>
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              any of them; ſo that the paſſage requiring but one ſole inſtant
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              of time, and every ſmall time containing infinite inſtants, we ſhall
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              not want enough of them to aſſign its own to each of the infinite
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              degrees of tardity; although the time were never ſo ſhort.</s>
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              The moveable
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              parting from reſv
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              paſſeth thorow all
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              degrees of velocity
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              without ſtaying in
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              any.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Hitherto I apprehend you; nevertheleſs it is very much
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              that that Ball ſhot from a Cannon (for ſuch I conceive the
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              dent moveable) which yet we ſee to fall with ſuch a precipice,
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              that in leſs than ten pulſes it will paſs two hundred yards of
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              titude; ſhould in its motion be found conjoyned with ſo ſmall a
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              degree of velocity, that, ſhould it have continued to have moved
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              at that rate without farther acceleration, it would not have paſt
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              the ſame in a day.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You may ſay, nor yet in a year, nor in ten, no nor in a
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              thouſand; as I will endeavour to ſhew you, and alſo happily
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              out your contradiction, to ſome ſufficiently ſimple queſtions that
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              I will propound to you. </s>
              <s>Therefore tell me if you make any
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              ſtion of granting that, that that ball in deſcending goeth
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              ſing its
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              impetus
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              and velocity.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I am moſt certain it doth.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And if I ſhould ſay that the
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              impetus
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              acquired in any
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              place of its motion, is ſo much, that it would ſuffice to re-carry
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              it to that place from which it came, would you grant it?</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I ſhould conſent to it without contradiction, provided
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              waies, that it might imploy without impediment its whole
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              impetus
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              in that ſole work of re-conducting it ſelf, or another equal toit, to
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              that ſelf-ſame height as it would do, in caſe the Earth were bored
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              thorow the centre, and the Bullet fell a thouſand yards from the
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              ſaid centre, for I verily believe it would paſs beyond the centre,
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              aſcending as much as it had deſcended; and this I ſee plainly in
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              the experiment of a plummet hanging at a line, which removed
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              from the perpendicular, which is its ſtate of reſt, and afterwards
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              let go, falleth towards the ſaid perpendicular, and goes as far
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              yond it; or onely ſo much leſs, as the oppoſition of the air, and
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              line, or other accidents have hindred it. </s>
              <s>The like I ſee in the
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              ter, which deſcending thorow a pipe, re-mounts as much as it had
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              deſcended.</s>
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              The ponderous
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              ver deſcending
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              quireth
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              impetus
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              ſufficient to
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              carry it to the like
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              height.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You argue very well. </s>
              <s>And for that I know you will not
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              ſcruple to grant that the acquiſt of the
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              impetus
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              is by means of the
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              receding from the term whence the moveable departed, and its
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              proach to the centre, whither its motion tendeth; will you ſtick
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              to yeeld, that two equal moveables, though deſcending by divers
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              lines, without any impediment, acquire equal
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              impetus,
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              provided
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              that the approaches to the centre be equal?</s>
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