Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              incorruptible, unalterable,
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              &c.
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              and this corruptible, alterable,
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              &c.
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              The diſputes and
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              contradictions of
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              Philoſophers may
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              conduce to the
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              benefit of
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              phy.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I ſee not yet any need that
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              Ariſtotle
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              hath of help,
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              ſtanding as he doth ſtoutly and ſtrongly on his feet; yea not
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              ing yet aſſaulted, much leſs foiled by you. </s>
              <s>And what ward will
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              you chooſe in this combate for this firſt blow?
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              Aristotle
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              writeth,
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              that whatever is generated, is made out of a contrary in ſome
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              ſubject, and likewiſe is corrupted in ſome certain ſubject from a
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              contrary into a contrary; ſo that (obſerve) corruption and
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              neration is never but onely in contraries; If therefore to a
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              leſtial Body no contrary can be aſſigned, for that to the circular
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              motion no other motion is contrary, then Nature hath done very
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              well to make that exempt from contraries, which was to be
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              generable and incorruptible, This fundamental firſt confirmed,
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              it immediately followeth of conſequence, that it is
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              ble, inalterable, impaſſible, and finally eternal, and a
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              tionate habitation to the immortal Deities, conformable to the
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              opinion even of all men that have any conceit of the Gods. </s>
              <s>He
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              afterwards confirmeth the ſame by ſenſe; in regard, that in all
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              times paſt, according to memory or tradition, we ſee nothing
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              moved, according to the whole outward Heaven, nor any of its
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              proper parts. </s>
              <s>Next, as to the circular motion, that no other is
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              contrary to it,
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              Aristotle
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              proveth many ways; but without
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              ting them all, it is ſufficiently demonſtrated, ſince fimple motions
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              are but three, to the
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              medium,
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              from the
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              medium,
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              and about the
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              medium,
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              of which the two right,
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              ſurſum
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              and
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              deorſum,
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              are
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              feſtly contrary; and becauſe one onely hath onely one for
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              trary, therefore there reſts no other motion which may be
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              ry to the circular. </s>
              <s>You ſee the ſubtle and moſt concluding
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              courſe of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              whereby he proveth the incorruptibility of
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              Heaven.</s>
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              Ariſtotles
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              diſcourſe
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              to prove the
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              ruptibility of
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              ven.
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              Generation &
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              ruption is onely
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              mongſt contraries,
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              according to
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              Ariſt.</s>
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              To the circular
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              motion no other
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              motion is contrary.
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              Heaven an
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              tation for the
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              ortal Gods.
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              Immutability of
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              Heaven evident to
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              ſexſe.
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              He proveth that
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              the circular motion
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              hath no contrary.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This is nothing more, ſave the pure progreſs of
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              tle,
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              by me hinted before; wherein, beſides that I affirm, that the
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              motion which you attribute to the Cœleſtial Bodies agreeth alſo
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              to the Earth, its illation proves nothing. </s>
              <s>I tell you therefore,
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              that that circular motion which you aſſign to Cœleſtial Bodies,
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              ſuiteth alſo to the Earth, from which, ſuppoſing that the reſt of
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              your diſcourſe were concludent, will follow one of theſe three
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              things, as I told you a little before, and ſhall repeat; namely,
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              either that the Earth it ſelf is alſo ingenerable, and incorruptible,
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              as the Cœleſtial bodies; or that the Cœleſtial bodies are, like as
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              the Elementary generable, alterable &c. </s>
              <s>or that this difference of
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              motion hath nothing to do with Generation and Corruption.
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              <s>The diſcourſe of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              and yours alſo contain many
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              tions not to be lightly admitted, and the better to examine them,
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              it will be convenient to reduce them to the moſt abſtracted and </s>
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