Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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              Faith is more
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              certain, than ei­
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              ther Senſe or Rea­
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              ſon.
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              * 2 Pet. </s>
              <s>1. 19.</s>
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              <s>But yet becauſe the common Syſteme of the World deviſed by
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              Ptolomy
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              hath hitherto ſatisfied none of the Learned, hereupon a
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              ſuſpicion is riſen up amongſt all, even
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              Ptolemy's
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              followers them­
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              ſelves, that there muſt be ſome other Syſteme, which is more true
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              than this of
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              Ptolemy
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              ; For although the
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              Phœnomena
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              of Celeſtial
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              Bodys may ſeem to be generally reſolved by this Hypotheſis, yet
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              they are found to be involved with many difficulties, and refer­
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              red to many devices; as namely of Orbes of ſundry Forms and
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              Figures, Epicicles, Equations, Differences, Excentricks, andinnu­
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              merable ſuch like fancies and Chymæra's which ſavour of the
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              Ens Rationis
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              of Logicians, rather than of any
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              Realem Eſſentiam.
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              Of which kinde is that of the
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              Rapid Motion,
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              than which I finde
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              not any thing that can be more weakly grounded, and more eaſi­
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              ly controverted and diſproved: And ſuch is that conceit of the
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              ^{*} Heaven void of Stars, moving the inferior Heavens or Orbes:
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              All which are introduced upon occaſion of the variety of the
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              Motions of Celeſtial Bodyes, which ſeemed impoſſible, by any
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              other way, to be reduced to any certain and determinate Rule.
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              <s>So that the Aſſertors of that common Opinion, freely confeſs,
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              that in deſcribing the Worlds Syſteme, they cannot as yet diſco­
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              ver, or teach the true Hypotheſis thereof: But that their endea­
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              vours are onely to finde out, amongſt many things, what is moſt
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              agreeable with truth, and may, upon better and more accomo­
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              date Reaſons, anſwer the Celeſtial
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              Phœnomena.
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              * Or
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              Primum
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              Mobile.
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              <s>Since that, the Teleſcope (an Optick Invention) hath been found
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              out, by help of which, many remarkable things in the Heavens,
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              moſt worthy to be known, and till then unthought of, were diſ­
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              covered by manifeſt ſenſation; as for inſtance, That the Moon is
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              Mountainous;
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              Venus
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              and
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              Saturn
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              Tricorporeal; and
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              Jupiter
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              Quadricorporeal: Likewiſe that in the
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              Via Lactea,
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              in the
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              Ple­
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              iades,
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              and in the Stars called
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              Nobuloſœ
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              there are many Stars, and
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              thoſe of the greateſt Magnitude which are by turns adjacent to
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              one another; and in the end it hath diſcovered to us, new fixed
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              Stars, new planets, and new Worlds. </s>
              <s>And by this ſame Inſtru­
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              ment it appears very probable, that
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              Venus
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              and
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              Mercury
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              do not
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              move properly about the Earth, but rather about the Sun; and
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              that the Moon alone moveth about the Earth. </s>
              <s>What therefore
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              can be inferred from hence, but that the Sun doth ſtand immo­
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              vable in the Centre, and that the Earth, with the other Celeſtial
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              Orbes, is circumvolved about it? </s>
              <s>Wherefore by this and many
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              other Reaſons it appears, That the Opinion of
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              Pythagor as
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              and
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              Copernicus
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              doth not diſagree with Aſtronomical and Coſmogra­
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              phical Principles; yea, that it carryeth with it a great likelihood
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              and probability of Truth: Whereas amongſt the ſo many ſeve­
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              ral Opinions, that deviate from the common Syſteme, and deviſe </s>
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