Foscarini, Paolo Antonio
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An epistle to fantoni
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1661
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others, ſuch as were thoſe of
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Plato, Calippus, Eudoxus
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them of
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Averroe, ^{*} Cardanus, Fracaſtorius,
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and others both Anti
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ent and Modern, there is not one found that is more facile, more
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regularly ahd determinately, accommodated to the
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Phœnomena
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and Motions of the Heavens, without
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Epicycles, Excentrix, Ho
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mocentricks
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Deferents, and the ſupputation of the Rapid Motion.
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>And this Hypotheſis hath been aſſerted for true, not onely by
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Pythagoras,
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and, after him, by
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Copernicus,
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but by many famous
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men, as namely,
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Heraclitus,
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Ecphantus, Pythagoreans,
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all the
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Diſciples of that Sect,
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Miceta
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Syracuſe, Martianus Capella,
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>Amongſt whom, thoſe (as we have ſaid) that
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have attempted the finding out of New Syſtemes (for they refu
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ſed both this of
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Pythagoras,
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and that of
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Ptolemy)
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are numberleſs:
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who yet notwithſtanding allowed this Opinion of
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Pythagoras
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to
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carry with it much probability, and indirectly confirmed it; inaſ
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much as that they rejected the common one as imperfect, defe
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ctive, and attended with many contradictions and difficulties.
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>Amongſt theſe may be numbered Father ^{*}
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Clavius,
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a moſt learn
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ed Jeſuite; who, although he refutes the Syſteme of
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Pythagoras,
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yet acknowledgeth the Levity of the common Syſteme, and he
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ingeniouſly confeſſeth, that for the removal of difficulties, in which
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the common Syſteme will not ſerve the turn, Aſtronomers are
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forced to enquire after another Syſteme, to the diſcovery of
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which, he doth very earneſtly exhort them.</
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* Cardan de re
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Cap. 1.</
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rum editione.</
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be deviſed, than this of
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Copernicus,
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his Cauſe many Mo
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dern Authors are induced to approve of, and follow it: but
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with much hæſitancy, and fear, in regard that it ſeemeth in their
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Opinion ſo to contradict the Holy Scriptures, as that it cannot
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poſſibly be reconciled to them. </
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Opinion hath been long ſuppreſt, and is now entertained by men
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in a modeſt manner, ad as it were with a veiled Face; according
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to that advice of the Poet:</
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Judicium populi nunquam contempſeris unus,
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Ne nullis place as, dum vis contemnere multos.
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>Upon conſideration of which, (out of my very great love to
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wards the Sciences, and my ardent defire to ſee the encreaſe and
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perfection of them, and the Light of Truth freed from all Er
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rours and Obſcurities) I began to argue with my ſelf touching
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this Point after this manner: This Opinion of the
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Pythagoreans
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is either true, or falſe; If falſe, it ought not to be mentioned, and
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deſerves not to be divulged: If true, it matters not, though it
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contradict all, as well Philoſophers as Aſtronomers: And though
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for its eſtabliſhment and reducement to uſe a new Philoſophy </
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