Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              truth agreeth with another, and all conſpire to render each other
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              inexpugnable!</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>What pity it is that Guns were not uſed in
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              Ariſtotles
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              age, he would with help of them have eaſily battered down
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              norance, and ſpoke without hæſitation of theſe mundane points.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I am very glad that theſe reaſons are new unto you, that
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              ſo you may not reſt in the opinion of the
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              major
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              part of
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              ticks,
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              who believe, that if any one forſakes the Doctrine of
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              ſtotle,
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              it is becauſe they did not underſtand or rightly apprehend
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              his demonſtrations. </s>
              <s>But you may expect to hear of other
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              ties, and you ſhall ſee the followers of this new Syſteme produce
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              gainſt themſelves obſervations, experiences, and reaſons of farre
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              greater force than thoſe alledged by
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              Aristotle, Ptolomy,
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              and other
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              oppoſers of the ſame concluſions, and by this means you ſhall come
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              to aſcertain your ſelf that they were not induced through want of
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              knowledge or experience to follow that opinion.</s>
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              Copernicus
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              his
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              followers are not
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              moved through
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              nor ance of the
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              guments on the
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              ther part.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>It is requiſite that upon this occaſion I relate unto you
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              ſome accidents that befell me, ſo ſoon as I firſt began to hear ſpeak
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              of this new doctrine. </s>
              <s>Being very young, and having ſcarcely
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              niſhed my courſe of Philoſophy, which I left off, as being ſet upon
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              other employments, there chanced to come into theſe parts a
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              tain Foreigner of
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              Roſtock,
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              whoſe name, as I remember, was
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              Chri-
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              ſtianus Vurſtitius,
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              a follower of
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              Copernicus,
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              who in an
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              Academy
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              made two or three Lectures upon this point, to whom many flock't
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              as Auditors; but I thinking they went more for the novelty of the
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              ſubject than otherwiſe, did not go to hear him: for I had
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              ded with my ſelf that that opinion could be no other than a ſolemn
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              madneſſe. </s>
              <s>And queſtioning ſome of thoſe who had been there, I
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              perceived they all made a jeſt thereof, execpt one, who told me
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              that the buſineſſe was not altogether to be laugh't at, and becauſe
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              this man was reputed by me to be very intelligent and wary, I
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              pented that I was not there, and began from that time forward as
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              oft as I met with any one of the
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              Copernican
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              perſwaſion, to demand
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              of them, if they had been alwayes of the ſame judgment; and of as
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              many as I examined, I found not ſo much as one, who told me not
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              that he had been a long time of the contrary opinion, but to have
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              changed it for this, as convinced by the ſtrength of the reaſons
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              ving the ſame: and afterwards queſtioning them, one by one; to
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              ſee whether they were well poſſeſt of the reaſons of the other ſide;
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              I found them all to be very ready and perfect in them; ſo that I
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              could not truly ſay, that they had took up this opinion out of
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              norance, vanity, or to ſhew the acuteneſſe of their wits. </s>
              <s>On the
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              contrary, of as many of the
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              Peripateticks
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              and
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              Ptolomeans
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              as I
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              have asked (and out of curioſity I have talked with many) what
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              pains they had taken in the Book of
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              Copernicus,
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              I found very </s>
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