Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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drawn all one way, and the ſame without any other alteration ſave
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the declining the direct rectitude, ſometimes a very inſenſible
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ter towards one ſide or another, and the pens moving its neb one
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while ſofter, another while ſlower, but with very ſmall inequality.
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that thoſe frollike penmen, who to ſhew their command of hand,
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without taking their pen from the paper in one ſole ſtroke, with
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infinite turnings draw a pleaſant knot, if they were in a boat that
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did tide it along ſwiftly they would convert the whole motion
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of the pen, which in reality is but one ſole line, drawn all towards
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one and the ſame part, and very little curved, or declining from
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hath helped me to this conceit: therefore let us go
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on, for the hope of meeting with more of them, will make me the
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ſtricter in my attention.</
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occurr not thus to every one, you will find no want of them,
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cially in this particular of Navigation; and do you not think that a
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witty conceit which I met with likewiſe in the ſame voyage, when I
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obſerved that the maſt of the ſhip, without either breaking or
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ing, had made a greater voyage with its round-top, that is with its
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top-gallant, than with its foot; for the round top being more diſtant
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from the centre of the Earth than the foot is, it had deſcribed the
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arch of a circle bigger than the circle by which the foot had paſſed.</
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Subtilties
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ently inſipid,
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cally, ſpoken and
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taken from a
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Encyclopædia.</
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your own mother-wit: But let us not interrupt
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Salviatus.
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how he ſootheth up
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himſelf in this conceit, if happly it be his own, and that he hath not
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borrowed it from a certain little pamphlet of concluſions, where
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there are a great many more ſuch fancies no leſs pleaſant & witty.
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pendicular to the Horizon, that is, of a ſhot towards our vertical
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point, and to conclude, of the return of the ball by the ſame line
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unto the ſame peice, though that in the long time which it is
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parated from the peice, the earth hath tranſported it many miles
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towards the Eaſt; now it ſeemeth, that the ball ought to fall a like
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diſtance from the peice towards the Weſt; the which doth not
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happen: therefore the peice without having been moved did ſtay
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expecting the ſame. </
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ſtone falling from the Tower; and all the fallacy, and
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on conſiſteth in ſuppoſing ſtill for true, that which is in queſtion;
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for the Opponent hath it ſtill fixed in his conceit that the
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ball departs from its reſt, being diſcharged by the fire </
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