Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You have good cauſe for your doubt: and when we
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              come to treat of the other Motion, you ſhall ſee how far
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              nicus
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              excelled
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              Ptolomey
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              in clearneſs and ſublimity of wit, in that
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              he ſaw what the other did not, I mean the admirable harmony
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              wherein that Motion agreed with all the other Cœleſtial Bodies.
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              <s>But for the preſent we will ſuſpend this particular, and return to
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              our firſt conſideration; touching which I will proceed to propoſe
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              (begining with things more general) thoſe reaſons which ſeem to
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              favour the mobility of the Earth, and then wait the anſwers which
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              Simplicius
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              ſhall make thereto. </s>
              <s>And firſt, if we conſider onely
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              the immenſe magnitude of the Starry Sphere, compared to the
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              ſmalneſs of the Terreſtrial Globe, contained therein ſo many
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              lions of times; and moreover weigh the velocity of the motion
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              which muſt in a day and night make an entire revolution thereof,
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              I cannot perſwade my ſelf, that there is any man who believes it
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              more reaſonable and credible, that the Cœleſtial Sphere turneth
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              round, and the Terreſtrial Globe ſtands ſtill.</s>
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              Why the diurnal
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              motion more
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              bably ſhould belong
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              to the Earth, than
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              to the reſt of the
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              Vniverſe.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>If from the univerſality of effects, which may in nature
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              have dependence upon ſuch like motions, there ſhould
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              ly follow all the ſame conſequences to an hair, aſwell in one
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              theſis
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              as in the other; yet I for my part, as to my firſt and general
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              apprehenſion, would eſteem, that he which ſhould hold it more
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              tional to make the whole Univerſe move, and thereby to ſalve the
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              Earths mobility, is more unreaſonable than he that being got to
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              the top of your Turret, ſhould deſire, to the end onely that he
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              might behold the City, and the Fields about it, that the whole
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              Country might turn round, that ſo he might not be put to the
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              trouble to ſtir his head. </s>
              <s>And yet doubtleſs the advantages would
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              be many and great which the
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              Copernican Hypotheſis
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              is attended
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              with, above thoſe of the
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              Ptolomaique,
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              which in my opinion
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              ſembleth, nay ſurpaſſeth that other folly; ſo that all this makes
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              me think that far more probable than this. </s>
              <s>But haply
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              Ariſtotle,
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              Ptolomey,
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              and
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              Simplicius
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              may find the advantages of their
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              ſteme, which they would do well to communicate to us alſo, if
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              any ſuch there be; or elſe declare to me, that there neither are or
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              can be any ſuch things.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>For my part, as I have not been able, as much as I have
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              thought upon it, to find any diverſity therein; ſo I think I have
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              found, that no ſuch diverſity can be in them: in ſo much that I
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              eſteem it to no purpoſe to ſeek farther after it. </s>
              <s>Therefore
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              ſerve: Motion is ſo far Motion, and as Motion operateth, by how
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              far it hath relation to things which want Motion: but in thoſe
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              things which all equally partake thereof it hath nothing to do, and
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              is as if it never were. </s>
              <s>And thus the Merchandiſes with which a
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              ſhip is laden, ſo far move, by how far leaving
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              London,
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              they paſs </s>
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