Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              memory for he did not write to the vulgar, nor is he obliged to
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              ſpin out his Sillogiſmes with the trivial method of diſputes; nay
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              rather, uſing a freedome, he hath ſometimes placed the proof
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              of one Propoſition amongſt Texts, which ſeem to treat of quite
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              another point; and therefore it is requiſite to be maſter of all
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              that vaſt
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              Idea,
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              and to learn how to connect this paſſage with that,
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              and to combine this Text with another far remote from it; for it
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              is not to be queſtioned but that he who hath thus ſtudied him,
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              knows how to gather from his Books the demonſtrations of every
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              knowable deduction, for that they contein all things.</s>
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              Requiſites to fit
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              a man to
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              phate well after
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              the manner of
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              riſtotle.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But good
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              Simplicius,
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              like as the things ſcattered here
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              and there in
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              Ariſtotle,
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              give you no trouble in collecting them,
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              but that you perſwade your ſelf to be able by comparing and
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              connecting ſeveral ſmall ſentences to extract thence the juice of
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              ſome deſired concluſion, ſo this, which you and other
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              ous Philoſophers do with the Text of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              I could do by the
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              verſes of
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              Virgil,
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              or of
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              Ovid,
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              compoſing thereof ^{*}
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              Centones,
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              and
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              therewith explaining all the affairs of men, and ſecrets of
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              ture. </s>
              <s>But what talk I of
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              Virgil,
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              or any other Poet? </s>
              <s>I have a
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              tle Book much ſhorter than
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              Ariſtotle
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              and
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              Ovid,
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              in which are
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              teined all the Sciences, and with very little ſtudy, one may gather
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              out of it a moſt perfect
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              Idea,
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              and this is the
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              Alphabet
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              ; and there
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              is no doubt but that he who knows how to couple and diſpoſe
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              aright this and that vowel, with thoſe, or thoſe other conſonants,
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              may gather thence the infallible anſwers to all doubts, and
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              duce from them the principles of all Sciences and Arts, juſt in the
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              ſame manner as the Painter from divers ſimple colours, laid
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              rally upon his
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              Pallate,
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              proceedeth by mixing a little of this and
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              a little of that, with a little of a third, to repreſent to the life
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              men, plants, buildings, birds, fiſhes, and in a word,
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              ing what ever object is viſible, though there be not on the
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              Pallate
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              all the while, either eyes, or feathers, or fins, or leaves, or ſtones.
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              <s>Nay, farther, it is neceſſary, that none of the things to be
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              ted, or any part of them, be actually among colours, if you
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              would be able therewith to repreſent all things; for ſhould there
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              be amongſt them
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              v. </s>
              <s>gr.
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              feathers, theſe would ſerve to repreſent
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              nothing ſave birds, and plumed creatures.</s>
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              A cunning way
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              to gather
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              phy out of any book
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              whatſoever.
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              * A word
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              ing works
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              ſed of many
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              ments of verſes
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              collected out of the
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              Poets.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And there are certain Gentlemen yet living, and in health,
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              who were preſent, when a Doctor, that was Profeſſor in a
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              mous Academy, hearing the deſcription of the
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              Teleſcope,
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              by him
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              not ſeen as then, ſaid, that the invention was taken from
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              ſtotle,
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              and cauſing his works to be fetch't, he turned to a place
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              where the Philoſopher gives the reaſon, whence it commeth, that
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              from the bottom of a very deep Well, one may ſee the ſtars in
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              Heaven, at noon day; and, addreſſing himſelf to the company, </s>
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