Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              works contain all things knowable, it muſt follow alſo that they
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              may be therein diſcovered.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Good
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              Sagredus,
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              make no jeſt of this advice, which me
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              thinks you rehearſe in too Ironical a way; for it is not long ſince
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              that a very eminent Philoſopher having compoſed a Book
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              de animà,
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              wherein, citing the opinion of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              about its being or not
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              ing immortal, he alledged many Texts, (not any of thoſe
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              fore quoted by
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              Alexander ab Alexandro
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              : for in thoſe he ſaid, that
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              Ariſtotle
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              had not ſo much as treated of that matter, much leſs
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              termined any thing pertaining to the ſame, but others) by himſelf
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              found out in other more abſtruſe places, which tended to an
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              roneous ſenſe: and being adviſed, that he would find it an hard
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              matter to get a Licence from the Inquiſitors, he writ back unto
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              his friend, that he would notwithſtanding, with all expedition
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              procure the ſame, for that if no other obſtacle ſhould interpoſe,
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              he would not much ſcruple to change the Doctrine of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              and with other expoſitions, and other Texts to maintain the
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              trary opinion, which yet ſhould be alſo agreeable to the ſenſe of
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              Ariſtotle.
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              A brave
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              tion of a certain
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              Peripatetick
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              loſopher.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Oh moſt profound Doctor, this! that can command
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              me that I ſtir not a ſtep from
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              Ariſtotle,
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              but will himſelf lead
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              him by the noſe, and make him ſpeak as he pleaſeth. </s>
              <s>See how
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              much it importeth to learn to take
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              Time
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              by the
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              Fore-top.
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              Nor
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              is it ſeaſonable to have to do with
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              Hercules,
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              whil'ſt he is
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              raged, and amongſt the Furies, but when he is telling merry tales
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              amongſt the
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              Meonion Damoſels.
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              Ah, unheard of ſordidneſſe of
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              ſervile ſouls! to make themſelves willing ſlaves to other mens
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              nions; to receive them for inviolable Decrees, to engage
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              ſelves to ſeem ſatisfied and convinced by arguments, of ſuch
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              cacy, and ſo manifeſtly concludent, that they themſelves
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              not certainly reſolve whether they were really writ to that
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              poſe, or ſerve to prove that aſſumption in hand, or the contrary.
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              <s>But, which is a greater madneſſe, they are at variance amongſt
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              themſelves, whether the Author himſelf hath held the affirmative
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              part, or the negative. </s>
              <s>What is this, but to make an Oracle of a
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              Log, and to run to that for anſwers, to fear that, to reverence
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              and adore that?</s>
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              The ſervile
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              rit of ſome of
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              ſtotles
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              followers.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>But in caſe we ſhould recede from
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              Aristotle,
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              who have
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              we to be our Guid in Philoſophy? </s>
              <s>Name you ſome Author.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>We need a Guid in unknown and uncouth wayes, but
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              in champion places, and open plains, the blind only ſtand in need
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              of a Leader; and for ſuch, it is better that they ſtay at home.
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              <s>But he that hath eyes in his head, and in his mind, him ſhould
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              a man chooſe for his Guid. </s>
              <s>Yet miſtake me not, thinking that I
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              ſpeak this, for that I am againſt hearing of
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              Ariſtotle
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              ; for on the </s>
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