Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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France, Spain, Italy,
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and ſail to
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Aleppo,
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London, France,
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ſtand ſtill, not moving with the ſhip: but as to the
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Cheſts, Bales and other Parcels, wherewith the ſhip is ſtow'd and
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and laden, and in reſpect of the ſhip it ſelf, the Motion from
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is as much as nothing; and nothing-altereth the
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lation which is between them: and this, becauſe it is common to
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all, and is participated by all alike: and of the Cargo which is in
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the ſhip, if a Bale were romag'd from a Cheſt but one inch onely,
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this alone would be in that Cargo, a greater Motion in reſpect of
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the Cheſt, than the whole Voyage of above three thouſand miles,
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made by them as they were ſtived together.</
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Motion, as to the
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things that equally
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move thereby, is as
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of it never were, &
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ſo far operates as it
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hath relation to
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things deprived of
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patetick.
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in receiving it from ſome good School, did not fully
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ſtand it, and that therefore, having delivered it with ſome
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tion, it hath been an occaſion of confuſion amongſt thoſe, who
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ſoever moveth, doth move upon ſomething immoveable, I ſuppoſe
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that he equivocated, and meant, that whatever moveth, moveth
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in reſpect to ſomething immoveable; which propoſition admitteth
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no doubt, and the other many.</
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A propoſition
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from the Antients,
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but ſomewhat
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tered by him.
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common to many moveables, is idle, and as it were, null as to the
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relation of thoſe moveables between themſelves, becauſe that
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mong themſelves they have made no change: and that it is
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rative onely in the relation that thoſe moveables have to other
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things, which want that motion, among which the habitude is
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changed: and we having divided the Univerſe into two parts, one
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of which is neceſſarily moveable, and the other immoveable; for
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the obtaining of whatſoever may depend upon, or be required
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from ſuch a motion, it may as well be done by making the Earth
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alone, as by making all the reſt of the World to move: for that
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the operation of ſuch a motion conſiſts in nothing elſe, ſave in
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the relation or habitude which is between the Cœleſtial Bodies,
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and the Earth, the which relation is all that is changed. </
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ad unguem,
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it be all one
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ther the Earth alone moveth, the reſt of the Univerſe ſtanding
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ſtill; or that, the Earth onely ſtanding ſtill, the whole Univerſe
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moveth with one and the ſame motion; who would believe, that
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Nature (which by common conſent, doth not that by many things,
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which may be done by few) hath choſen to make an innumerable
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number of moſt vaſt bodies move, and that with an unconceivable </
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