Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>
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              Solidity of the
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              Lunar Globe
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              ed from its being
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              montainous.
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              The Seas
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              ction of light much
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              weaker than that
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              of the Earth.
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              <s>
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              An experiment
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              to prove the
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              ction of the Water
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              leſſe clear than
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              that of the Land.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Here I ſee the weſt part ſhine more than all the reſt of
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              the pavement, and I ſee that it ſo hapneth, becauſe the
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              ction of the light which entereth in at the window, cometh
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              wards me.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>That moiſture hath done no more but filled thoſe little
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              cavities which are in the brick with water, and reduced its
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              ficies to an exact eveneſſe; whereupon the reflex rayes iſſue
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              unitedly towards one and the ſame place; but the reſt of the
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              pavement which is dry, hath its protuberances, that is, an
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              merable variety of inclinations in its ſmalleſt particles;
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              on the reflections of the light ſcatter towards all parts, but more
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              weakly than if they had gone all united together; and therefore,
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              the ſame ſheweth almoſt all alike, beheld ſeveral wayes, but far
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              leſſe clear than the moiſtned brick. </s>
              <s>I conclude therefore, that the
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              ſurface of the Sea, beheld from the Moon, in like manner, as it
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              would appear moſt equal, (the Iſlands and Rocks deducted) ſo it
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              would ſhew leſſe clear than that of the Earth, which is montanous
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              and uneven. </s>
              <s>And but that I would not ſeem, as the ſaying is,
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              to harp too much on one ſtring, I could tell you that I have
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              ſerved in the Moon that ſecondary light which I told you came to
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              her from the reflection of the Terreſtrial Globe, to be notably
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              more clear two or three dayes before the conjunction, than after,
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              that is, when we ſee it before break of day in the Eaſt, than
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              when it is ſeen at night after Sun-ſet in the Weſt; of which
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              ference the cauſe is, that the Terreſtrial Hemiſphere, which looks
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              towards the Eaſtern Moon, hath little Sea, and much Land, to
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              wit, all
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              Aſia,
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              whereas, when it is in the Weſt, it beholds very
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              great Seas, that is, the whole
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              Atlantick
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              Ocean as far as
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              America:
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              An Argument ſufficiently probable that the ſurface of the water
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              appears leſſe ſplendid than that of the Earth.</s>
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              <s>
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              The ſecondary
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              light of the Moon
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              clearer before the
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              conjunction, than
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              after.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>So that perhaps you believe, thoſe great ſpots
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              vered in the face of the Moon, to be Seas, and the other clearer
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              parts to be Land, or ſome ſuch thing?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This which you ask me, is the beginning of thoſe
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              congruities which I eſteem to be between the Moon and the
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              Earth, out of which it is time to diſ-ingage our ſelves, for we
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              have ſtayed too long in the Moon. </s>
              <s>I ſay therefore, that if there
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              were in nature but one way onely, to make two ſuperficies
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              ted by the Sun, to appear one more clear than the other, and
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              that this were by the being of the one Earth, and the other
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              ter; it would be neceſſary to ſay that the ſurface of the Moon
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              were part earthy and part aquatick; but becauſe we know many
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              wayes to produce the ſame effect (and others there may be which
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              we know not of;) therefore I dare not affirm the Moon to
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              ſiſt of one thing more than another: It hath been ſeen already </s>
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