Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              to the Ocean: but thoſe Hills, being by ſome cauſe or other
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              parated, and a way being opened to the Sea to break in, it made
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              ſuch an inundation, that it gave occaſion to the calling of it ſince
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              the Mid-land Sea: the greatneſs whereof conſidered, and the
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              vers aſpect the ſurface of the Water and Earth then made, had it
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              been beheld afar off, there is no doubt but ſo great a change
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              might have been diſcerned by one that was then in the Moon;
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              as alſo to us inhabitants of the Earth, the like alterations would
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              be perceived in the Moon; but we find not in antiquity, that
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              ver there was ſuch a thing ſeen; therefore we have no cauſe to
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              ſay, that any of the Cœleſtial bodies are alterable,
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              &c.
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              The Mediterr
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              an Sea made by the
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              ſeparation of
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              la
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              and
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              Calpen.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>That ſo great alterations have hapned in the Moon, I
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              dare not ſay, but for all that, I am not yet certain but that ſuch
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              changes might occur; and becauſe ſuch a mutation could onely
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              repreſent unto us ſome kind of variation between the more clear,
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              and more obſcure parts of the Moon, I know not whether we
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              have had on Earth obſervant Selenographers, who have for any
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              conſiderable number of years, inſtructed us with ſo exact
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              graphy, as that we ſhould confidently conclude, that there hath
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              no ſuch change hapned in the face of the Moon; of the
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              tion of which I find no more particular deſcription, than the
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              ing of ſome, that it repreſents an humane face; of others, that
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              it is like the muzzle of a lyon; and of others, that it is
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              Cain
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              with
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              a bundle of thorns on his back: therefore, to ſay Heaven is
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              alterable, becauſe that in the Moon, or other Cœleſtial bodies, no
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              ſuch alterations are ſeen, as diſcover themſelves on Earth, is a bad
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              illation, and concludeth nothing.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And there is another odd kind of ſcruple in this
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              ment of
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              Simplicius,
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              running in my mind, which I would gladly
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              have anſwered; therefore I demand of him, whether the Earth
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              before the Mediterranian inundation was generable and
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              ble, or elſe began then ſo to be?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>It was doubtleſs generable and corruptible alſo
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              fore that time; but that was ſo vaſt a mutation, that it might
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              have been obſerved as far as the Moon.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Go to; if the Earth was generable and corruptible
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              before that Inundation, why may not the Moon be ſo
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              wiſe without ſuch a change? </s>
              <s>Or why ſhould that be neceſſary
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              in the Moon, which importeth nothing on Earth?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It is a ſhrewd queſtion: But I am doubtfull that
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              plicius
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              a little altereth the Text of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              and the other
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              patelicks,
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              who ſay, they hold the Heavens unalterable, for that
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              they ſee therein no one ſtar generate or corrupt, which is
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              bly a leſs part of Heaven, than a City is of the Earth, and yet
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              innumerable of theſe have been deſtroyed, ſo as that no mark of
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              them hath remain'd.</s>
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