Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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Which arguments, as being of ſomewhat a
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An argument
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Clouds, and from
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An argument
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which we feel to
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An argument
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whirling of
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lar motion, which
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hath a faculty to
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extrude and
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Simplicius
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Salviatus
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is Maſter of, and knoweth how to unfold the
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Ptolomean
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ſtotelian
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Peripatetick
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qually verſt in the
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Copernican
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ſes have begot in me of the learning of
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Salviatus,
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and of the
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cuteneſſe of
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Sagredus,
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I would by their good leave have gone my
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way without ſtaying for their anſwers; it ſeeming to me a thing
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impoſſible, that ſo palpable experiments ſhould be contradicted;
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and would, without hearing them farther, conſirm my ſelf in my
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old perſwaſion; for though I ſhould be made to ſee that it was
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roneous, its being upheld by ſo many probable reaſons, would
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der it excuſeable. </
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tions were ever ſo fair?</
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which if they be true, muſt of neceſſity be more fair, and that by
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inſinite degrees; and thoſe muſt be deformed, yea moſt deformed,
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if the Metaphy ſical Axiome hold, That true and fair are one and
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the ſame thing; as alſo falſe and deformed. </
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True and fair
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are one and the
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ſame, as alſo falſe
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and deformed.
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if I well
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ſuch motion would be violent to the ſame, and therefore not
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petual: that it is violent, the reaſon was: Becauſe, that had it been
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natural, its parts would likewiſe naturally move round, which is
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impoſſible, for that it is natural for the parts thereof to move with a
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right motion downwards. </
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Ariſtotle
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had more cleerly expreſt himſelf, where he
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ſaid; That its parts would likewiſe move circularly; for this
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ving circularly is to be underſtood two wayes, one is, that every
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particle or atome ſeparated from its
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Whole
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would move circularly
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about its particular centre, deſcribing its ſmall Circulets; the other
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is, that the whole Globe moving about its centre in twenty four
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hours, the parts alſo would turn about the ſame centre in four and
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twenty hours. </
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if one ſhould ſay, that every part of the circumference of a Circle
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ought to be a Circle; or becauſe that the Earth is Spherical, that
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therefore every part thereof be a Globe, for ſo doth the
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Axiome
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require:
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Eadem eſt ratio totius, & partium.
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But if he took it in
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the other ſenſe, to wit, that the parts in imitation of the
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Whole
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ſhould move naturally round the Centre of the whole Globe in
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twenty four hours, I ſay, that they do ſo; and it concerns you, </
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