Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              ſuch why ſhould we throw away our time and breath in vain?</s>
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              <s>SIMPI. </s>
              <s>I muſt confeſs I have not made the obſervations, for
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              that I never had ſo much curioſity, or the Inſtruments proper for
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              the buſineſs; but I will not fail to do it. </s>
              <s>In the mean time, we
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              may leave this queſtion in ſuſpenſe, and paſs to that point which
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              follows, producing the motives inducing you to think that the
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              Earth may reflect the light of the Sun no leſs forceably than the
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              Moon, for it ſeems to me ſo obſcure and opacous, that I judg ſuch
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              an effect altogether impoſſible.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The cauſe for which you repute the Earth unapt for
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              illumination, may rather evince the contrary: And would it not
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              be ſtrange,
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              Simplicius,
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              if I ſhould apprehend your diſcourſes
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              ter than you your ſelf?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Whether I argue well or ill, it may be, that you may
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              better underſtand the ſame than I; but be it ill or well that I
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              diſcourſe, I ſhall never believe that you can penetrate what I mean
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              better than I my ſelf.</s>
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              <s>SALV. Well, I will make you believe the ſame preſently. </s>
              <s>Tell
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              me a little, when the Moon is near the Full, ſo that it may be ſeen
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              by day, and alſo at midnight, at what do you think it more
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              did, by day or by night?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>By night, without all compariſon. </s>
              <s>And methinks
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              the Moon reſembleth that pillar of Clouds and pillar of Fire,
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              which guided the
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              Iſraelites
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              ; which at the preſence of the Sun,
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              appeared like a Cloud, but in the night was very glorious. </s>
              <s>Thus
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              I have by day obſerved the Moon amidſt certain ſmall Clouds,
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              juſt as if one of them had been coloured white, but by night it
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              ſhines with much ſplendor.</s>
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              The Moon
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              pears brighter by
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              night than by day.
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              The Moon
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              held in the day
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              time, is like to a
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              little cloud.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>So that if you had never happened to ſee the Moon,
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              ſave onely in the day time, you would not have thought it more
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              ſhining than one of thoſe Clouds.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I verily believe I ſhould not.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Tell me now; do you believe that the Moon is really
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              more ſhining in the night than day, or that by ſome accident it
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              ſeemeth ſo?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I am of opinion, that it reſplends in it ſelf as much in
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              the day as night, but that its light appears greater by night,
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              cauſe we behold it in the dark mantle of Heaven; and in the day
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              time, the whole Atmoſphere being very clear, ſo that ſhe little
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              exceedeth it in luſtre, ſhe ſeems to us much leſs bright.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Now tell me; have you ever at midnight ſeen the
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              reſtrial Globe illuminated by the Sun?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>This ſeemeth to me a queſtion not to be ask'd, unleſs
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              in jeſt, or of ſome perſon known to be altogether void of ſenſe.</s>
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              <s>SALV. No, no; I eſteem you to be a very rational man, and </s>
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