Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              few that had ſo much as ſuperficially peruſed it; but of thoſe
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              whom, I thought, had underſtood the ſame, not one; and
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              over, I have enquired amongſt the followers of the
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              Peripatetick
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              Doctrine, if ever any of them had held the contrary opinion, and
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              likewiſe found none that had. </s>
              <s>Whereupon conſidering that there
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              was no man who followed the opinion of
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              Copernicus,
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              that had
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              not been firſt on the contrary ſide, and that was not very well
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              quainted with the reaſons of
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              Ariſtotle
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              and
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              Ptolomy
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              ; and, on the
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              contrary, that there is not one of the followers of
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              Ptolomy
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              that
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              had ever been of the judgment of
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              Copernicus,
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              and had left that,
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              to imbrace this of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              conſidering, I ſay, theſe things, I
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              began to think, that one, who leaveth an opinion imbued with
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              his milk, and followed by very many, to take up another owned
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              by very few, and denied by all the Schools, and that really
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              ſeems a very great Paradox, muſt needs have been moved, not
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              to ſay forced, by more powerful reaſons. </s>
              <s>For this cauſe, I am
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              become very curious to dive, as they ſay, into the bottom of this
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              buſineſſe, and account it my great good fortune that I have met
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              you two, from whom I may without any trouble, hear all that
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              hath been, and, haply, can be ſaid on this argument, aſſuring
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              my ſelf that the ſtrength of your reaſons will reſolve all ſcruples,
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              and bring me to a certainty in this ſubject.</s>
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              Chriſtianus
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              ſtitius
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              read certain
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              Lectures touching
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              the opinion of
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              pernicus,
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              & what
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              enſued thereupon.
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              The followers of
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              Copernicus
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              were
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              all firſt againſt
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              that opinion, but
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              the Sectators of
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              Ariſtotle
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              &
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              lomy,
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              were never
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              of the other ſide.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>But its poſſible your opinion and hopes may be
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              pointed, and that you may find your ſelves more at a loſſe in the
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              end than you was at firſt.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I am very confident that this can in no wiſe befal
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              me.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>And why not? </s>
              <s>I have a manifeſt example in my ſelf,
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              that the farther I go, the more I am confounded.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>This is a ſign that thoſe reaſons that hitherto ſeemed
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              concluding unto you, and aſſured you in the truth of your
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              nion, begin to change countenance in your mind, and to let you
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              by degrees, if not imbrace, at leaſt look towards the contrary
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              nent; but I, that have been hitherto indifferent, do greatly hope
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              to acquire reſt and ſatisfaction by our future diſcourſes, and you
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              will not deny but I may, if you pleaſe but to hear what
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              deth me to this expectation.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I will gladly hearken to the ſame, and ſhould be no
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              leſſe glad that the like effect might be wrought in me.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Favour me therefore with anſwering to what I ſhall ask
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              you. </s>
              <s>And firſt, tell me,
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              Simplicius,
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              is not the concluſion, which
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              we ſeek the truth of, Whether we ought to hold with
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              Ariſtotle
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              and
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              Ptolomy,
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              that the Earth onely abiding without motion in the
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              Centre of the Univerſe, the Cœleſtial bodies all move, or elſe,
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              Whether the Starry Sphere and the Sun ſtanding ſtill in the Centre, </s>
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