Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Now I remember the reſt, and to proceed, Methinks
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              there are ſome things in the anſwer of
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              Anti-Tycho,
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              worthy of
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              reprehenſion. </s>
              <s>And firſt, if the two New Stars, which he can do
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              no leſs than place in the uppermoſt parts of the Heavens, and
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              which were of a long duration, but finally vaniſhed, give him no
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              obſtruction in maintaining the inalterability of Heaven, in that
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              they were not certain parts thereof, nor mutations made in the
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              antient Stars, why doth he ſet himſelf ſo vigorouſly and earneſtly
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              againſt the Comets, to baniſh them by all ways from the
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              ſtial Regions? </s>
              <s>Was it not enough that he could ſay of them
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              the ſame which he ſpoke of the New ſtars? </s>
              <s>to wit, that in
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              gard they were no certain parts of Heaven, nor mutations made
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              in any of the Stars, they could no wiſe prejudice either Heaven,
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              or the Doctrine of
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              Ariſtotle
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              ? </s>
              <s>Secondly, I am not very well
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              fied of his meaning; when he ſaith that the alterations that ſhould
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              be granted to be made in the Stars, would be deſtructive to the
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              prerogative of Heaven; namely, its incorruptibility,
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              &c.
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              and
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              this, becauſe the Stars are Cœleſtial ſubſtances, as is manifeſt
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              by the conſent of every one; and yet is nothing troubled that
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              the ſame alterations ſhould be made ^{*} without the Stars in the reſt
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              of the Cœleſtial expanſion. </s>
              <s>Doth he think that Heaven is no
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              Cœleſtial ſubſtance? </s>
              <s>I, for my part, did believe that the Stars
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              were called Cœleſtial bodies, by reaſon that they were in
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              ven, or for that they were made of the ſubſtance of Heaven;
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              and yet I thought that Heaven was more Cœleſtial than they; in
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              like ſort, as nothing can be ſaid to be more Terreſtrial, or more
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              fiery than the Earth or Fire themſelves. </s>
              <s>And again, in that he
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              ver made any mention of the Solar ſpots, which have been
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              dently demonſtrated to be produced, and diſſolved, and to be
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              neer the Sun, and to turn either with, or about the ſame, I have
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              reaſon to think that this Author probably did write more for others
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              pleaſure, than for his own ſatisfaction; and this I affirm,
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              much as he having ſhewn himſelf to be skilful in the
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              ticks, it is impoſſible but that he ſhould have been convinced by
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              Demonſtrations, that thoſe ſubſtances are of neceſſity
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              ous with the body of the Sun, and are ſo great generations and
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              corruptions, that none comparable to them, ever happen in the
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              Earth: And if ſuch, ſo many, and ſo frequent be made in the
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              very Globe of the Sun, which may with reaſon be held one of the
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              nobleſt parts of Heaven, what ſhould make us think that others
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              may not happen in the other
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              * Ex tra Stellas.</s>
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              Generability and
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              alteration is a
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              greater perfection
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              in the Worlds
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              dies than the
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              trary qualities.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I cannot without great admiration, nay more,
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              al of my underſtanding, hear it to be attributed to natural bodies,
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              for a great honour and perfection that they are ^{*} impaſſible,
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              mutable, inalterable,
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              &c.
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              And on the contrary, to hear it to </s>
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