Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              the Earth is without the ſame, and owner of all thoſe motions that
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              in our ſeeming belong to the Sun and fixed Stars?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Theſe are the concluſions which are in diſpute.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And theſe two concluſions, are they not of ſuch a
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              ture, that one of them muſt neceſſarily be true, and the other
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              falſe?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>They are ſo. </s>
              <s>We are in a
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              Dilemma,
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              one part of which
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              muſt of neceſſity be true, and the other untrue; for between
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              tion and Reſt, which are contradictories, there cannot be inſtanced
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              a third, ſo as that one cannot ſay the Earth moves not, nor ſtands
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              ſtill; the Sun and Stars do not move, and yet ſtand not ſtill.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in
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              nature? </s>
              <s>are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and
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              worthy of conſideration?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL They are principal, noble, integral bodies of the
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              verſe, moſt vaſt and conſiderable.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And Motion, and Reſt, what accidents are they in
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              Motion and reſt
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              principal accidents
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              in nature.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>So great and principal, that Nature her ſelf is defined
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              by them.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>So that moving eternally, and the being wholly
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              veable are two conditions very conſiderable in Nature, and
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              cate very great diverſity; and eſpecially when aſcribed to the
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              principal bodies of the Univerſe, from which can enſue none but
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              very different events.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Yea doubtleſſe.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Now anſwer me to another point. </s>
              <s>Do you believe that
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              in
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              Logick, Rhethorick,
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              the
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              Phyſicks, Metaphyſicks, Mathematicks,
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              and finally, in the univerſality of Diſputations there are arguments
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              ſufficient to perſwade and demonſtrate to a perſon the fallacious,
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              no leſſe then the true concluſions?</s>
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              Vntruths cannot
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              be demonstrated,
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              as Truths are.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>No Sir; rather I am very confident and certain, that
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              for the proving of a true and neceſſary concluſion, there are in </s>
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              nature not onely one, but many very powerfull demonſtrations:
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              and that one may diſcuſſe and handle the ſame divers and ſundry
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              wayes, without ever falling into any abſurdity; and that the more
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              any Sophiſt would diſturb and muddy it, the more clear would its
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              certainty appear: And that on the contrary to make a falſe
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              tion paſſe for true, and to perſwade the belief thereof, there
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              not be any thing produced but fallacies, Sophiſms, Paralogiſmes,
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              Equivocations, and Diſcourſes vain, inconſiſtant, and full of
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              pugnances and contradictions.</s>
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              For proof of true
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              concluſions, many
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              ſolid arguments
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              may be produced,
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              but to prove a
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              ſity, none.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Now if eternal motion, and eternal reſt be ſo
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              pal accidents of Nature, and ſo different, that there can depend
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              on them only moſt different conſequences, and eſpecially when </s>
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