Foscarini, Paolo Antonio
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An epistle to fantoni
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1661
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of the
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Antipodes
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by many of the Antients of approved Wiſ
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dome and Learning was held a Paradox no leſs abſurd than this
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Our Opinion of the
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Earths Motion
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may ſeem to be; as likewiſe
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that of the
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Habitableneſſe of the Torrid Zone
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: Of theſe Opini
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ons, the firſt was accounted unpoſſible by many, but the latter
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was abſolutely denyed by the unanimous conſent of all: But
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later Authors (to the great felicity and perpetual Glory of
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their Age) have, not ſo much by Authority, as by accurate
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diligence and indefatigable ſtudy to finde out the truth, pro
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ved them both to be undoubtedly true. </
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>Thus I affirm that
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the Antients were deceived, and that in too lightly challenging
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Credid and Authority for their Inventions, they diſcovered too
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much folly. </
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>Here for brevities ſake I paſs by many Dreams
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lately detected, both of
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Ariſtotle
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and other of the antient Philo
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ſophers; who in all likelihood if they had dived into the Obſer
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vations of Modern Writers, and underſtood their Reaſons, would,
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by changing their Judgements, have given them the precedency,
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and would have ſubſcribed to their manifeſt Truth. </
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>Hereby we
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ſee that we are not to have ſo high a reſpect for the Antiens, that
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whatever they aſſert ſhould be taken upon truſt, and that Faith
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ſhould be given to their ſayings, as if they were Oracles and
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Truths ſent down from Heaven. </
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chiefly to be regarded in theſe matters) if any thing be found out
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that is repugnant to Divine Authority, or to the Sacred Leaves,
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that were dictated by the Holy Ghoſt, and by His Inſpiration
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expounded by the Holy Doctors of the Church, in this caſe not
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onely Humane Reaſon, but even Senſe it ſelf is to ſubmitt:
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which, though by all manner of weighty Conditions and circum
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ſtances it ſhould hold forth any thing contrary to Divine Autho
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rity, (which indeed is ſo plain, that there is no way left to evade
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the right un erſtanding of it) yet is it to be rejected; and we
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muſt conclude our ſelves deceived by it, and believe that that is
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not true which Senſe and Reaſon repreſents unto us: For, however
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we judge of things, we have, both in this and all other caſes, a
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more certain knowledge, which proceeds from Divine Faith; as
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S.
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Peter
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hath moſt excellently expreſt it: Who though with his
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Senſes he ſaw, and perceived the Glory of our Lord in his
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Transfiguration, and heard his words manifeſting his great Pow
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er, yet nevertheleſs all theſe things compared with the Light of
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Faith, he adds: ^{*}
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We have alſo a more ſure word of Prophecy,
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&c.
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Wherefore ſince this Opinion of
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Pythagoras
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and
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Copernicus
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hath
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entred upon the Stage of the World in ſo ſtrange a Dreſs, and at
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the firſt appearance (beſides the reſt) doth ſeem to oppoſe ſun
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dry Authorities of Sacred Scripture, it hath (this being granted)
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been juſtly rejected of all men as a meer abſurdity.</
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