Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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>To the moſt Serene Grand DUKE
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living Creatures be very great, yet happly he that
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ſhould ſay that he could ſhew little leſs between
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Man and Man would not ſpeak more than he
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might prove. </
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athouſand? </
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One Man is
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worth athouſand, when as a thouſand are not worth one.
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This difference
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hath dependence upon the different abilities of their
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ctuals; which I reduce to the being, or not being a
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pher; in regard that Philoſophy as being the proper food of
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ſuch as live by it, diſtinguiſheth a Man from the common
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ſence of the Vulgar in a more or leſs honourable degree
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ing to the variety of that diet. </
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higheſt looks, is of higheſt quality; and the turning over of
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the great Volume of Nature, which is the proper Object of
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Philoſophy is the way to make one look high: in which Book,
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although whatſoever we read, as being the Work of
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mighty God, is therefore moſt proportionate; yet
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ſtanding that is more abſolute and noble wherein we more
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plainly deſerne his art and skill. </
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Conſtitution
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Vnivers,
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among all Phyſical points that fall within Humane
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henſion, may, in my opinion, be preferred to the Precedency:
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for if that in regard of univerſal extent it excell all others, it
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ought as the Rule and Standard of the reſt to goe before
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them in Nobility. </
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to be ſignally diſtinguiſhed for Intellectuals from other men; </
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