Galilei, Galileo - The systems of the world

Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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think of accomodating the body of Venus in ſuch a manner that
its ſtate and motion may agree with what ſenſible experiments do
ſhew us; and therefore recall to mind that. which either by the
paſt diſcourſes, or your own obſervations you have learnt to be
fal that ſtar, and afterwards aſſign unto it that ſtate which you
think agreeth with the ſame.

SIMP. Suppoſing thoſe Phænomena expreſſed by you, and
which I have likewiſe read in the little treatiſe of Concluſions, to

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be true, namely, that that ſtar never recedes from the Sun beyond
ſuch a determinate ſpace of 40 degrees or thereabouts, ſo as that
it never cometh either to appoſition with the Sun, or ſo much as
to quadrature, or yet to the ſextile aſpect; and more than that,

ſuppoſing that it ſheweth at one time almoſt 40 times greater than
at another; namely, very great, when being retrograde, it goeth to
the veſpertine conjnnction of the Sun, and very ſmall when with a

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