Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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>THE AUTHOR'S
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INTRODUCTION.</
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Rome
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a ſalutiferous Edict, that, for
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the obviating of the dangerous Scandals of the preſent Age, impoſed a
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ſonable Silence upon the Pythagorean Opinion of the Mobility of the Earth.
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>There want not ſuch as unadviſedly affirm, that that Decree was not the
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ction of a ſober Scrutiny, but of an ill informed Paſsion; & one may hear ſome
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ter that Conſultors altogether ignorant of Aſtronomical Obſervations ought not
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to clipp the Wings of Speculative Wits with raſh Prohibitions. </
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not keep ſilence when I hear theſe inconſiderate complaints. </
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quainted with that prudent Determination, to appear openly upon the Theatre of the World as a
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neſs of the naked Truth. </
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Rome;
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and had not only the audiences, but applauds of
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the moſt Eminent Prelates of that Court; nor was that Decree Publiſhed without Previous Notice given
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me thereof. </
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point is as well under stood in
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Italy,
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and particularly in
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Rome,
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as Tranſalpine Diligence can imagine
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it to be: and collecting together all the proper Speculations that concern the
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Copernican Syſteme,
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to let them know, that the notice of all preceded the Cenſure of the
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Roman Court;
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and that there
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proceed from this Climate not only Doctrines for the health of the Soul, but alſo ingenious Diſcoveries
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for the recreating of the Mind.
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To this end I have perſonated the
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Copernican
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in this Diſcourſe; proceeding upon an Hypotheſis
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purely Mathematical; ſtriving by all artificial wayes to repreſent it Superiour, not to that of the
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mobility of the Earth abſolutely, but according as it is mentioned by ſome, that retein no more, but the
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name of
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Peripateticks,
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and are content, without going farther, to adore Shadows, not philoſophizing
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with requiſit caution, but with the ſole remembrance of four
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Principles,
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but badly under ſtood.
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We ſhall treat of three principall heads. </
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be made upon the Earth are inſufficient means to conclude it's Mobility, but are indifferently applicable
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to the Earth moveable or immoveable: and I hope that on this occaſion we ſhall diſcover many
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vable paſſages unknown to the Ancients. </
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Phœnomena
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that make for the
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Copernican Hypotheſis,
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as if it were to prove abſolutely victorious; adding by the
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way certain new Obſervations, which yet ſerve only for the Aſtronomical Facility, not for Natural
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Neceßity. </
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years ſince, that the unknown Probleme of the Tide might receive ſome light, admitting the Earths
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Motion. </
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adopted it for the Iſſue of their own wit. </
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ſelf with our armes ſhall charge us with want of caution in ſo principal an Accident, I have thought
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good to lay down thoſe probabilities that would render it credible, admitting that the Earth did
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move. </
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Navigated more than we, we have not ſtudied leſs than they; & that our returning to aſſert the Earths
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Stability, and to take the contrary only for a Mathematical
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Capriccio,
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proceeds not from inadvertency
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of what others have thought thereof, but (had we no other inducements) from thoſe Reaſons that
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ty, Religion, the Knowledge of the Divine Omnipotency, and a conſciouſneſs of the incapacity of mans
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Vnderſtanding dictate unto us.
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