Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              and therefore they alſo, as being round, muſt be alſo
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              tible; and likewife in the remainders, which environ theſe eight
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              leſſer Spheres, a man may underſtand that there are others: ſo
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              that in the end, reſolving the whole
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              Die
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              into innumerable balls,
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              it muſt neceſſarily be granted incorruptible. </s>
              <s>And the ſame
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              courſe and reſolution may be made in all other figures.</s>
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              If the ſpherical
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              gure conferreth
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              ternity, all bodies
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              would be eternal.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Your method in making the concluſion, for if
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              v. </s>
              <s>g.
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              a
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              round Chryſtal were, by reaſon of its figure, incorruptible; namely,
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              received from thence a faculy of reſiſting all internal and external
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              alterations, we ſhould not find, that the joyning to it other
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              ſtal, and reducing it
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              v. </s>
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              into a Cube, would any whit alter it
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              within, or without; ſo as that it would thereupon become leſſe
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              apt to reſiſt the new ambient, made of the ſame matter, than it
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              was to reſiſt the other, of a matter different; and eſpecially, if
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              it be true, that corruption is generated by contraries, as
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              ſtotle
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              ſaith; and with what can you encloſe that ball of Cryſtal,
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              that is leſſe contrary to it, than Cryſtal it ſelf? </s>
              <s>But we are not
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              ware how time flies away; and it will be too late before we come
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              to an end of our diſpute, if we ſhould make ſo long diſcourſes,
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              upon every particular; beſides our memories are ſo confounded
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              in the multiplicity of notions, that I can very hardly recal to
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              mind the Propotſiions, which I propoſed in order to
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              Simplicius,
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              for our conſideration.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I very well remember them: And as to this particular
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              queſtion of the montuoſity of the Moon, there yet remains
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              anſwered that which I have alledged, as the cauſe, (and which
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              may very well ſerve for a ſolution) of that
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              Phænomenon,
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              ſaying,
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              that it is an illuſion proceeding from the parts of the Moon,
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              ing unequally opacous, and perſpicuous.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Even now, when
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              Simplicius
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              aſcribed the apparent
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              tnberancies or unevenneſſes of the Moon (according to the opinion
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              of a certain
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              Peripatetick
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              his friend) to the diverſly opacous, and
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              perſpicuous parts of the ſaid Moon, conformable to which the like
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              illuſions are ſeen in Cryſtal, and Jems of divers kinds, I bethought
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              my ſelf of a matter much more commodious for the repreſenting
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              ſuch effects; which is ſuch, that I verily believe, that that
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              pher would give any price for it; and it is the mother of Pearl, which
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              is wrought into divers figures, and though it be brought to an
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              treme evenneſſe, yet it ſeemeth to the eye in ſeveral parts, ſo
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              ouſly hollow and knotty, that we can ſcarce credit our feeling of
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              their evenneſſe.</s>
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              Mother of Pearl
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              accommodated to
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              imitate the
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              rent unevenneſſes
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              of the Moons
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              face.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This invention is truly ingenious; and that which hath
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              not been done already, may be done in time to come; and if
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              there have been produced other Jems, and Cryſtals, which have
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              nothing to do with the illuſions of the mother of Pearl, theſe may </s>
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