Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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Simplicius,
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give a reaſon for this,
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without others prompting you?</
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alſo. </
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>Tell me therefore; know you that a thing which moveth,
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being impeded ſtands ſtill?</
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impediment to the moveable, than moving in the air, the Earth
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ing rough and hard, and the air ſoft and yielding?</
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in the air, than on the ground, ſo that my knowledg is quite
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trary to what you think it.</
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Simplicius.
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You know that in the
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parts of a moveable, that turneth about its centre, there are found
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motions towards all ſides; ſo that ſome aſcend, others deſcend;
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ſome go forwards, others backwards?</
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Aristotle
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taught me the ſame.</
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Ariſtotle,
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then, hath made you ſee that which without
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him you would not have ſeen? </
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Ariſtotle
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hath told, advertiſed, remembered
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you of the ſame; and not taught you it. </
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out changing place, turns round, (or in the childrens phraſe,
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eth) not paralel, but erect to the Horizon, ſome of its parts aſcend,
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and the oppoſite deſcend; the ſuperiour go one way, the
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riour another. </
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ging place, ſwiftly turns round in that manner, and ſtands
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ded in the air, and that in that manner turning, it be let fall to the
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Earth perpendicularly, do you believe, that when it is arrived at
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the ground, it will continue to turn round in the ſame manner,
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without changing place, as before?</
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* Vertigine.</
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do move contrary to the inferiour; therefore you muſt inſtance
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which it ſhall obey: for as to the parts aſcending and deſcending,
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the one kind will not yield to the other; nor will they all go
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downwards, being hindered by the Earth, nor upwards as being
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