Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I believe that you very much deceive your ſelf, and am
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              certain, that experience will ſhew you the contrary, and that the ball
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              being once arrived at the ground, will run together with the horſe,
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              not ſtaying behind him, unleſs ſo far as the aſperity and
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              neſs of the Earth ſhall hinder it. </s>
              <s>And the reaſon ſeems to me
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              very manifeſt: for if you, ſtanding ſtill, throw the ſaid ball
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              long the ground, do you think it would not continue its motion
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              even after you had delivered it out of your hand? </s>
              <s>and that for ſo
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              much a greater ſpace, by how much the ſuperficies were more
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              ſmooth, ſo that
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              v. </s>
              <s>g.
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              upon ice it would run a great way?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>There is no doubt of it, if I give it
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              impetus
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              with my
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              arm; but in the other caſe it is ſuppoſed, that he who is upon the
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              horſe, onely drops it out of his hand:</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>So I deſire that it ſhould be: but when you throw it
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              with your arm, what other remaineth to the ball being once gone
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              out of your hand, than the motion received from your arm, which
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              motion being conſerved in the boul, it doth continue to carry it
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              forward? </s>
              <s>Now, what doth it import, that that
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              impetus
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              be
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              ferred on the ball rather from the arm than from the horſe? </s>
              <s>Whilſt
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              you were on horſeback, did not your hand, and conſequently the
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              ball run as faſt as the horſe it ſelf? </s>
              <s>Doubtleſs it did: therefore
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              in onely opening of the hand, the ball departs with the motion
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              ready conceived, not from your arm, by your particular motion,
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              but from the motion dependant on the ſaid horſe, which cometh to
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              be communicated to you, to your arm, to your hand, and laſtly to
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              the ball. </s>
              <s>Nay, I will tell you farther, that if the rider upon his
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              ſpeed fling the ball with his arm to the part contrary to the courſe,
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              it ſhall, after it is fallen to the ground, ſometimes (albeit thrown to
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              the contrary part) follow the courſe of the horſe, and ſometimes lie
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              ſtill on the ground; and ſhall onely move contrary to the ſaid
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              courſe, when the motion received from the arm, ſhall exceed that
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              of the carrier in velocity. </s>
              <s>And it is a vanity, that of ſome, who
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              ſay that a horſeman is able to caſt a javelin thorow the air, that
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              way which the horſe runs, and with the horſe to follow and
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              take the ſame; and laſtly, to catch it again. </s>
              <s>It is, I ſay, a vanity,
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              for that to make the project return into the hand, it is requiſite to
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              caſt it upwards, in the ſame manner as if you ſtood ſtill. </s>
              <s>For, let
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              the carrier be never ſo ſwift, provided it be uniform, and the
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              ject not over-light, it ſhall always fall back again into the hand of
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              the projicient, though never ſo high thrown.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>By this Doctrine I come to know ſome Problems very
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              curious upon this ſubject of projections; the firſt of which muſt
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              ſeem very ſtrange to
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              Simplicius.
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              And the Problem is this; I
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              firm it to be poſſible, that the ball being barely dropt or let fall,
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              by one that any way runneth very ſwiftly, being arrived at the </s>
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