Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I verily believed otherwiſe, and conceited that
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              plicius
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              diſſembled this expoſition of the Text, that he might not
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              charge his Maſter and Conſectators, with a notion more abſurd
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              than the former. </s>
              <s>And what a folly it is to ſay the Cœleſtial
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              part is unalterable, becauſe no ſtars do generate or corrupt
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              in? </s>
              <s>What then? </s>
              <s>hath any ſeen a Terreſtrial Globe corrupt, and
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              another regenerate in its place? </s>
              <s>And yet is it not on all hands
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              granted by Philoſophers, that there are very few ſtars in Heaven
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              leſs than the Earth, but very many that are much bigger? </s>
              <s>So
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              that for a ſtar in Heaven to corrupt, would be no leſs than if the
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              whole Terreſtrial Globe ſhould be deſtroy'd. </s>
              <s>Therefore, if for
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              the true proof of generation and corruption in the Univerſe, it be
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              neceſſary that ſo vaſt bodies as a ſtar, muſt corrupt and
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              rate, you may ſatisfie your ſelf and ceaſe your opinion; for I
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              aſſure you, that you ſhall never ſee the Terreſtrial Globe or any
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              other integral body of the World, to corrupt or decay ſo, that
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              having been beheld by us for ſo many years paſt, they ſhould ſo
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              diſſolve, as not to leave any footſteps of them.</s>
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              Its no leſs
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              ble for a ſtar to
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              corrupt, than for
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              the whole
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              ſtrial Globe.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But to give
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              Simplicius
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              yet fuller ſatisfaction, and to
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              reclaim him, if poſſible, from his error; I affirm, that we have in
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              our age new accidents and obſervations, and ſuch, that I queſtion
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              not in the leaſt, but if
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              Ariſtotle
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              were now alive, they would make
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              him change his opinion; which may be eaſily collected from the
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              very manner of his diſcourſing: For when he writeth that he
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              ſteemeth the Heavens inalterable, &c. </s>
              <s>becauſe no new thing was
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              ſeen to be begot therein, or any old to be diſſolved, he ſeems
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              plicitely to hint unto us, that when he ſhould ſee any ſuch
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              dent, he would hold the contrary; and confront, as indeed it is
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              meet, ſenſible experiments to natural reaſon: for had he not
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              made any reckoning of the ſenſes, he would not then from the
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              not ſeeing of any ſenſible mutation, have argued immutability.</s>
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              Ariſtotle
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              would
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              change his opinion,
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              did he ſee the
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              velties of our age.
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              <s>SIMPL.
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              Ariſtotle
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              deduceth his principal Argument
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              à priori,
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              ſhewing the neceſſity of the inalterability of Heaven by natural,
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              manifeſt and clear principles; and then ſtabliſheth the ſame
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              à
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              ſteriori,
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              by ſenſe, and the traditions of the antients.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This you ſpeak of is the Method he hath obſerved in
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              delivering his Doctrine, but I do not bethink it yet to be that
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              wherewith he invented it; for I do believe for certain, that he
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              firſt procured by help of the ſenſes, ſuch experiments and
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              vations as he could, to aſſure him as much as it was poſſible, of the
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              concluſion, and that he afterwards ſought out the means how to
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              demonſtrate it: For this, the uſual courſe in demonſtrative
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              ces, and the reaſon thereof is, becauſe when the concluſion is
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              true, by help of reſolutive Method, one may hit upon ſome
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              poſition before demonſtrated, or come to ſome principle known </s>
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