Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              by
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              France, Spain, Italy,
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              and ſail to
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              Aleppo,
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              which
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              London, France,
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              Spain &c.
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              ſtand ſtill, not moving with the ſhip: but as to the
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              Cheſts, Bales and other Parcels, wherewith the ſhip is ſtow'd and
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              and laden, and in reſpect of the ſhip it ſelf, the Motion from
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              don
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              to
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              Syria
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              is as much as nothing; and nothing-altereth the
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              lation which is between them: and this, becauſe it is common to
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              all, and is participated by all alike: and of the Cargo which is in
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              the ſhip, if a Bale were romag'd from a Cheſt but one inch onely,
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              this alone would be in that Cargo, a greater Motion in reſpect of
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              the Cheſt, than the whole Voyage of above three thouſand miles,
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              made by them as they were ſtived together.</s>
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              Motion, as to the
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              things that equally
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              move thereby, is as
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              of it never were, &
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              ſo far operates as it
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              hath relation to
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              things deprived of
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              motion.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>This Doctrine is good, ſound, and altogether
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              patetick.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I hold it to be much more antient: and ſuſpect that
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              A-
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              riſtotle
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              in receiving it from ſome good School, did not fully
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              ſtand it, and that therefore, having delivered it with ſome
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              tion, it hath been an occaſion of confuſion amongſt thoſe, who
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              would defend whatever he ſaith. </s>
              <s>And when he writ, that
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              ſoever moveth, doth move upon ſomething immoveable, I ſuppoſe
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              that he equivocated, and meant, that whatever moveth, moveth
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              in reſpect to ſomething immoveable; which propoſition admitteth
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              no doubt, and the other many.</s>
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              <s>
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              A propoſition
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              ken by
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              Ariſtotle
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              from the Antients,
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              but ſomewhat
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              tered by him.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Pray you make no digreſſion, but proceed in the
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              ſertation you began.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It being therefore manifeſt, that the motion which is
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              common to many moveables, is idle, and as it were, null as to the
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              relation of thoſe moveables between themſelves, becauſe that
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              mong themſelves they have made no change: and that it is
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              rative onely in the relation that thoſe moveables have to other
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              things, which want that motion, among which the habitude is
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              changed: and we having divided the Univerſe into two parts, one
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              of which is neceſſarily moveable, and the other immoveable; for
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              the obtaining of whatſoever may depend upon, or be required
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              from ſuch a motion, it may as well be done by making the Earth
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              alone, as by making all the reſt of the World to move: for that
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              the operation of ſuch a motion conſiſts in nothing elſe, ſave in
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              the relation or habitude which is between the Cœleſtial Bodies,
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              and the Earth, the which relation is all that is changed. </s>
              <s>Now if
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              for the obtaining of the ſame effect
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              ad unguem,
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              it be all one
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              ther the Earth alone moveth, the reſt of the Univerſe ſtanding
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              ſtill; or that, the Earth onely ſtanding ſtill, the whole Univerſe
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              moveth with one and the ſame motion; who would believe, that
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              Nature (which by common conſent, doth not that by many things,
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              which may be done by few) hath choſen to make an innumerable
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              number of moſt vaſt bodies move, and that with an unconceivable </s>
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