Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>In my judgment this is found. </s>
              <s>Make the Earth the
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              Primum mobile,
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              that is, make it turn round its own
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              axis
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              in twenty
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              four hours, and towards the ſame point with all the other Spheres;
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              and without participating this ſame motion to any other Planet or
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              Star, all ſhall have their riſings, ſettings, and in a word, all their
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              other appearances.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>The buſineſs is, to be able to make the Earth move
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              without athouſand inconveniences.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>All the inconveniences ſhall be removed as faſt as you
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              propound them: and the things ſpoken hitherto are onely the
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              primary and more general inducements which give us to believe
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              that the diurnal converſion may not altogether without
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              lity be applyed to the Earth, rather than to all the reſt of the
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              niverſe: the which inducements I impoſe not upon you as
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              lable Axioms, but as hints, which carry with them ſomewhat of
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              likelihood. </s>
              <s>And in regard I know very well, that one ſole
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              periment, or concludent demonſtration, produced on the contrary
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              part, ſufficeth to batter to the ground theſe and a thouſand other
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              probable Arguments; therefore it is not fit to ſtay here, but proceed
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              forwards and hear what
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              Simplicius
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              anſwereth, and what greater
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              probabilities, or ſtronger arguments he alledgeth on the contrary.</s>
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              One ſingle
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              periment, or ſound
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              demonſtration
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              tereth down all
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              guments meerly
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              probable.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I will firſt ſay ſomething in general upon all theſe
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              ſiderations together, and then I will deſcend to ſome particulars.
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              <s>It ſeems that you univerſally bottom all you ſay upon the greater
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              ſimplicity and facility of producing the ſame effects, whilſt you
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              hold, that as to the cauſing of them, the motion of the Earth
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              lone, ſerveth
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              as well
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              as that of all the reſt of the World, the Earth
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              deducted: but as to the operations, you eſteem that much eaſier
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              than this. </s>
              <s>To which I reply, that I am alſo of the ſame opinion,
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              ſo long as I regard my own not onely finite, but feeble power;
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              but having a reſpect to the ſtrength of the
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              Mover,
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              which is
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              finite, its no leſſe eaſie to move the Univerſe, than the Earth,
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              yea than a ſtraw. </s>
              <s>And if his power be infinite, why ſhould he not
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              rather exerciſe a greater part thereof than a leſſe? </s>
              <s>Therefore,
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              I hold that your diſcourſe in general is not convincing.</s>
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              Of an infinite
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              power one would
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              think a greater
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              part ſhould rather
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              be imploy'd than a
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              leſſe.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>If I had at any time ſaid, that the Univerſe moved not
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              for want of power in the
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              Mover,
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              I ſhould have erred, and your
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              reproof would have been ſeaſonable; and I grant you, that to
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              an infinite power, it is as eaſie to move an hundred thouſand, as
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              one. </s>
              <s>But that which I did ſay, concerns not the Mover, but
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              ly hath reſpect to the Moveables; and in them, not onely to
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              their reſiſtance, which doubtleſſe is leſſer in the Earth, than in
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              the Univerſe; but to the many other particulars, but even now
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              conſidered. </s>
              <s>As to what you ſay in the next place, that of an
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              finite power it is better to exerciſe a great part than a ſmall: I </s>
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