Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              ruptible, aſwell as the Elementary, what will you ſay then?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I will ſay you have done that which is impoſſible to
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              be done.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Go to; tell me,
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              Simplicius,
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              are not theſe affections
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              contrary to one another?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. Which?</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Why theſe; Alterable, unalterable; paſſible, ^{*}
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              ſible; generable, ingenerable; corruptible, incorruptible?</s>
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              *
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              Or,
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              Impatible.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>They are moſt contrary.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Well then, if this be true, and it be alſo granted,
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              that Cœleſtial Bodies are ingenerable and incorruptible; I prove
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              that of neceſſity Cœleſtial Bodies muſt be generable and
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              ptible.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>This muſt needs be a
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              Sophiſm.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Hear my Argument, and then cenſure and reſolve it.
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              Cœleſtial Bodies, for that they are ingenerable and incorruptible,
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              have in Nature their contraries, which are thoſe Bodies that be
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              generable and corruptible; but where there is contrariety, there
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              is alſo generation and corruption; therefore Cœleſtial Bodies are
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              generable and corruptible.</s>
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              Cœlestial Bodies
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              are generable and
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              corruptible,
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              cauſe they are
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              generable and
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              corruptible.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Did I not ſay it could be no other than a
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              Sophiſm
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              ?
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              <s>This is one of thoſe forked Arguments called
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              Soritæ
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              : like that
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              of the
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              Cretan,
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              who ſaid that all
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              Cretans
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              were lyars; but he as
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              being a
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              Cretan,
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              had told a lye, in ſaying that the
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              Cretans
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              were
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              ars; it followed therefore, that the
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              Cretans
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              were no lyars, and
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              conſequently that he, as being a
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              Cretan,
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              had ſpoke truth: And
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              yet in ſaying the
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              Cretans
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              were lyars, he had ſaid true, and
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              prehending himſelf as a
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              Cretan,
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              he muſt conſequently be a lyar.
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              </s>
              <s>And thus in theſe kinds of
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              Sophiſms
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              a man may dwell to eternity,
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              and never come to any concluſion.</s>
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              <s>
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              The forked
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              giſm cal'd
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                <foreign lang="grc">Ξωρίτης.</foreign>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>You have hitherto cenſured it, it remaineth now that
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              you anſwer it, ſhewing the fallacie.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>As to the reſolving of it, and finding out its fallacie,
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              do you not in the firſt place ſee a manifeſt contradiction in it?
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              <s>Cœleſtial Bodies are ingenerable and incorruptible;
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              Ergo,
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              ſtial Bodies are generable and corruptible. </s>
              <s>And again, the
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              trariety is not betwixt the Cœleſtial Bodies, but betwixt the
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              lements, which have the contrariety of the Motions,
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              ſurſùm
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              and
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              deorſùm,
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              and of levity and gravity; But the Heavens which move
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              circularly, to which motion no other motion is contrary, want
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              contrariety, and therefore they are incorruptible.</s>
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              Amongſt Cœleſtial
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              Bodies there is no
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              contrariety.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Fair and ſoftly,
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              Simplicius
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              ; this contrariety whereby
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              you ſay ſome ſimple Bodies become corruptible, reſides it in the
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              ſame Body which is corrupted, or elſe hath it relation to ſome
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              other? </s>
              <s>I ſay, for example, the humidity by which a piece of Earth </s>
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