Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              would never with his walking have arrived, if the Ship with its
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              motion had not wafted him thither.</s>
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              A ſingle
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              able hath but onely
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              one natural
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              on, and all the
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              reſt are by
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              pation.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Tell me ſecondly. </s>
              <s>That motion, which is
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              cated to any moveable by participation, whileſt it moveth by it
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              ſelf, with another motion different from the participated, is it
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              neceſſary, that it do reſide in ſome certain ſubject by it ſelf, or
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              elſe can it ſubſiſt in nature alone, without other ſupport.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL.
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              Ariſtotle
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              giveth you an anſwer to all theſe queſtions,
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              and tels you, that as of one ſole moveable the motion is but one;
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              ſo of one ſole motion the moveable is but one; and
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              ly, that without the inherence in its ſubject, no motion can
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              ther ſubſiſt, or be imagined.</s>
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              Motion cannot
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              be made without
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              its moveable
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              ject.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I would have you tell me in the third place, whether
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              you beblieve that the Moon and the other Planets and Cœleſtial
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              bodies, have their proper motions, and what they are.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>They have ſo, and they be thoſe according to which
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              they run through the Zodiack, the Moon in a Moneth, the Sun
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              in a Year,
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              Mars
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              in two, the Starry Sphere in thoſe ſo many
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              ſand. </s>
              <s>And theſe are their proper, or natural motions.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But that motion wherewith I ſee the fixed Stars, and
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              with them all the Planets go unitedly from Eaſt to Weſt, and
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              turn round to the Eaſt again in twenty four hours, how doth it
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              agree with them?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>It ſuiteth with them by participation.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>This then reſides not in them, and not reſiding in
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              them, nor being able to ſubſiſt without ſome ſubject in which it
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              is reſident, it muſt of force be the proper and natural motion of
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              ſome other Sphere.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>For this purpoſe Aſtronomers, and Philoſophers have
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              found another high Sphere, above all the reſt, without Stars, to
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              which Natural agreeth the Diurnal Motion; and this they call
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              the
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              Primum mobile
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              ; the which carrieth along with it all the
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              feriour Spheres, contributing and imparting its motion to
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              them.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But when, without introducing other Spheres unknown
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              and hugely vaſt, without other motions or communicated raptures,
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              with leaving to each Sphere its ſole and ſimple motion, without
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              intermixing contrary motions, but making all turn one way, as
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              it is neceſſary that they do, depending all upon one ſole principle,
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              all things proceed orderly, and correſpond with moſt perfect
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              mony, why do we reject this
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              Phœnomenon,
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              and give our aſſent to
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              thoſe prodigious and laborious conditions?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>The difficulty lyeth in finding out this ſo natural and
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              expeditious way.</s>
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