Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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We ſhall treat of three principall heads. Firſt I will endeavour to ſhew that all Experiments that can
be
made upon the Earth are inſufficient means to conclude it's Mobility, but are indifferently applicable
to
the Earth moveable or immoveable: and I hope that on this occaſion we ſhall diſcover many
vable
paſſages unknown to the Ancients.
Secondly we will examine the Cœleſtiall Phœnomena
that make for the Copernican Hypotheſis, as if it were to prove abſolutely victorious; adding by the
way
certain new Obſervations, which yet ſerve only for the Aſtronomical Facility, not for Natural
Neceßity
.
In the third place I will propoſe an ingenuous Fancy. I remember that I have ſaid many
years
ſince, that the unknown Probleme of the Tide might receive ſome light, admitting the Earths
Motion
.
This Poſition of mine paſsing from one to another had found charitable Fathers that
adopted
it for the Iſſue of their own wit.
Now, becauſe no ſtranger may ever appear that defending
ſelf
with our armes ſhall charge us with want of caution in ſo principal an Accident, I have thought
good
to lay down thoſe probabilities that would render it credible, admitting that the Earth did
move
.
I hope, that by theſe Conſider ations the World will come to know, that if other Nations have
Navigated
more than we, we have not ſtudied leſs than they; & that our returning to aſſert the Earths
Stability
, and to take the contrary only for a Mathematical Capriccio, proceeds not from inadvertency
of
what others have thought thereof, but (had we no other inducements) from thoſe Reaſons that
ty
, Religion, the Knowledge of the Divine Omnipotency, and a conſciouſneſs of the incapacity of mans
Vnderſtanding
dictate unto us.

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