Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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applyed to the Sun, and to the Earth, ſo vaſt and famous bodies
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of the Univerſe; and it being, moreover, impoſſible, that one of
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two contradictory Propoſitions, ſhould not be true, and the other
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falſe; and that for proof of the falſe one, any thing can be
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duced but fallacies; but the true one being perſwadeable by all
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kind of concluding and demonſtrative arguments, why ſhould
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you think that he, of you two, who ſhall be ſo fortunate as to
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maintain the true Propoſition ought not to perſwade me? </
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<
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muſt ſuppoſe me to be of a ſtupid wit, perverſe judgment, dull
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mind and intellect, and of a blind reaſon, that I ſhould not be
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able to diſtinguiſh light from darkneſſe, jewels from coals, or
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truth from falſhood.</
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occaſions, that the beſt Maſter to teach us how to diſcern
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phiſmes, Paralogiſmes, and other fallacies, was
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Ariſtotle,
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who
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in this particular can never be deceived.</
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Aristotle,
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who cannot ſpeak. </
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tell you, that if
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Ariſtotle
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were here, he would either yield
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ſelf to be perſwaded by us, or refuting our arguments, convince
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us by better of his own. </
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experiments of the Suns related, did you not acknowledg and
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admire them, and confeſſe them more concludent than thoſe of
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Ariſtotle?
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Yet nevertheleſſe I cannot perceive that
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Salviatus,
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who hath produced them, examined them, and with exquiſite
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care ſcan'd them, doth confeſſe himſelf perſwaded by them; no
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nor by others of greater force, which he intimated that he was
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about to give us an account of. </
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you ſhould cenſure Nature, as one that for many Ages hath
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been lazie, and forgetful to produce ſpeculative
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wits
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; and
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that knoweth not how to make more ſuch, unleſſe they be ſuch
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kind of men as ſlaviſhly giving up their judgments to
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Ariſtotle,
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do
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underſtand with his brain, and reſent with his ſenſes. </
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hear the reſidue of thoſe reaſons which favour his opinion, that
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we may thereupon proceed to ſpeak to them; comparing and
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weighing them in the ballance of impartiality.</
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Ariſtotle
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would
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adverſaries
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ments, or would
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alter his opinion.
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Sagredus,
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that
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in theſe our Diſputations, I perſonate the
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Copernican,
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, and
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tate him, as if I were his
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Zany
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; but what hath been effected in
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my private thoughts by theſe arguments which I ſeem to alledg in
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his favour, I would not have you to judg by what I ſay, whil'ſt
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I am in the heat of acting my part in the Fable; but after I have
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laid by my diſguiſe, for you may chance to find me different
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from what you ſee me upon the Stage. </
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Ptolomy
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and his followers produce another experiment like to
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that of the Projections, and it is of things that being ſeparated </
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