Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              paſſible, immortal,
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              &c.
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              they muſt needs be abſolutely perfect; and
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              their being abſolute perfect, neceſſarily implies that there is in them
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              all kinds of perfection; and conſequently, that their figure be alſo
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              perfect, that is to ſay, ſpherical; and abſolutely and perfectly
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              ſpherical, and not rough and irregular.</s>
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              Perfect ſphericity
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              why aſcribed to
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              Cœlestial bodies,
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              by the
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              ticks.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And this incorruptibility, from whence do you prove
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              it?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Immediately by its freedom from contraries, and
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              diately, by its ſimple circular motion.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>So that; by what I gather from your diſcourſe, in
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              king the eſſence of the Cœleſtial bodies to be incorruptible,
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              terable,
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              &c,
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              there is no need of rotundity as a cauſe, or
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              ſite; for if this ſhould cauſe inalterability, we might at our
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              ſure make wood, wax, and other Elementary matters,
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              tible, by reducing them to a ſpherical figure.</s>
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              The Figure is not
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              the cauſe of
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              ruptibility, but of
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              longer duration.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>And is it not manifeſt that a ball of Wood will better
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              and longer be preferved, than an oblong, or other angular
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              gure, made of a like quantity of the ſame wood.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This is moſt certain, but yet it doth not of corruptible
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              become incorruptible, but ſtill remains corruptible, though of a
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              much longer duration. </s>
              <s>Therefore you muſt note, that a thing
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              ruptible, is capable of being more or leſſe ſuch, and we may
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              properly ſay this is leſſe corruptible than that; as for example, the
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              Jaſper,
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              than the
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              Pietra Sirena
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              ; but incorruptibility admits not
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              of more, or leſſe, ſo as that it may be ſaid this is more
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              ble than that, if both be incorruptible and eternal. </s>
              <s>The
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              ſity of figure therefore cannot operate: ſave onely in matters
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              pable of more or leſſe duration; but in the eternal, which
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              not be other than equally eternal, the operation of figure ceaſeth.
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              <s>And therefore, ſince the Cœleſtial matter is not incorruptible by
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              figure, but otherwayes no man needs to be ſo ſolicitous for this
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              perfect ſphericity; for if the matter be incorruptible, let it have
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              what figure it will, it ſhall be alwayes ſuch.</s>
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              Corruptibility
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              mits of more or
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              leſſe; ſo doth noe
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              incorruptibiliiy.
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              The perfection of
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              figure, operateth
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              in corruptible
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              dies, but not in the
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              eternal.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But I am conſidering another thing, and ſay, that if
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              we ſhould grant the ſpherical figure a faculty of conferring
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              ruptibility, all bodies of whatſoever figure, would be
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              ble; foraſmuch as if the rotund body be incorruptible,
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              bility would then ſubſiſt in thoſe parts which alter the perfect
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              tundity; as for inſtance, there is in a
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              Die
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              a body perfectly round,
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              and, as ſuch, incorruptible; therefore it remaineth that thoſe
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              gles be corruptible which cover and hide the rotundity; ſo that
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              the moſt that could happen, would be, that thoſe angles, and
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              (to ſo ſpeak) excreſcencies, would corrupt. </s>
              <s>But if we proceed to a
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              more inward conſideration, that in thoſe parts alſo towards the
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              angles, there are compriſed other leſſer bals of the ſame matter; </s>
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