Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              ciples of
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              Ptolomy
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              and
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              Copernicus,
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              and which of their opinions is
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              the more probable and rational; that, which affirmeth the
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              ſtance of the Cœleſtial bodies to be ingenerable, incorruptible,
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              alterable, impaſſible, and in a word, exempt from all kind of change,
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              ſave that of local, and therefore to be a
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              fifth eſſence,
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              quite different
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              from this of our Elementary bodies, which are generable,
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              tible, alterable,
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              &c.
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              or elſe the other, which taking away ſuch
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              deformity from the parts of the World, holdeth the Earth to
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              joy the ſame perfections as the other integral bodies of the
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              verſe; and eſteemeth it a moveable and erratick Globe, no leſſe
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              than the Moon,
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              Jupiter, Venus,
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              or any other Planet: And laſtly,
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              maketh many particular parallels betwixt the Earth and Moon;
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              and more with the Moon, than with any other Planet;
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              ly by reaſon we have greater and more certain notice of it, as
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              being leſſe diſtant from us. </s>
              <s>And having, laſtly, concluded this
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              ſecond opinion to have more of probability with it than the firſt,
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              I ſhould think it beſt in the ſubſequent diſcourſes to begin to
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              mine whether the Earth be eſteemed immoveable, as it hath
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              been till now believed by moſt men, or elſe moveable, as ſome
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              ancient
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              Philoſophers
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              held, and others of not very receſſe times,
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              were of opinion; and if it be moveable, to enquire of what
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              kind its motion may be?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I ſee already what way I am to take; but before we
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              offer to proceed any farther, I am to ſay ſomething to you
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              ing thoſe laſt words which you ſpake, how that the opinion which
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              holds the Earth to be endued with the ſame conditions that the
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              Cœleſtial bodies enjoy, ſeems to be more true than the
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              ry; for that I affirmed no ſuch thing, nor would I have any of the
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              Propoſitions in controverſie, be made to ſpeak to any definitive
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              ſenſe: but I onely intended to produce on either part, thoſe
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              ſons and anſwers, arguments and ſolutions, which have been
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              therto thought upon by others, together with certain others,
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              which I have ſtumbled upon in my long ſearching thereinto,
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              wayes remitting the deciſion thereof to the judgment of others.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I was unawares tranſported by my own ſenſe of the
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              thing; and believing that others ought to judg as I did, I made
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              that concluſion univerſal, which ſhould have been particular; and
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              therefore confeſſe I have erred, and the rather, in that I know
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              not what
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              Simplicius
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              his judgment is in this particular.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I muſt confeſſe, that I have been ruminating all this
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              night of what paſt yeſterday, and to ſay the truth, I meet
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              in with many acute, new, aud plauſible notions; yet nevertheleſs,
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              I find my ſelf over-perſwaded by the authority of ſo many great
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              Writers,
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              and in particular -------
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              &c.
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              I ſee you ſhake your
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              head
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              Sagredus,
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              and ſmile to your ſelf, as if I had uttered ſome
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              great abſurdity.</s>
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