Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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Volumes; and yet not ſo much as one of the infinite admirable
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concluſions that thoſe his writings contain, hath ever been
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Our Friend
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An intire and
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Academick
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ning local motion.
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>You make me loſe the deſire I had to underſtand
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more in our diſputes in hand, onely that I may hear ſome of
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thoſe demonſtrations which you ſpeak of; therefore either give
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them me preſently, or at leaſt promiſe me upon your word, to
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appoint a particular conference concerning them, at which
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alſo may be preſent, if he ſhall have a mind to hear the
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paſſions and accidents of the primary effect in Nature.</
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indeed, as to what concerneth Natural Philoſophy, I do not think
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that it is neceſſary to deſcend unto minute particularities, a
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ral knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the
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ction of natural and violent, even and accelerate, and the like,
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ſufficing: For if this were not ſufficient, I do not think that
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ſtotle
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would have omitted to have taught us what ever more was
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this, which I promiſe to ſpend half a day apart in, for your
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faction; nay, now I remember, I did promiſe you once before to
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ſatisfie you herein. </
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tion of the time, wherein the grave cadent body would paſs from
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the concave of the Moon to the centre of the Earth, that we may
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not proceed arbitrarily and at randon, but with a Logical method,
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we will firſt attempt to aſcertain our ſelves by experiments often
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repeated, in how long time a ball
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of Iron deſcendeth to the
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Earth from an altitude of an hundred yards.</
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weight, and let it be the ſame wherewith we intend to make the
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computation of the time of deſcent from the Moon.</
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hundred, of a thouſand pounds, will all meaſure the ſame hundred
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yards in the ſame time.</
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Ariſtotle
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think ſo, who writeth, that the velocities of deſcending grave
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bodies, are in the ſame proportion to one another, as their
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vities.</
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Simplicius,
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you muſt
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lieve alſo, that two balls of the ſame matter, being let fall in the
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ſame moment, one of an hundred pounds, and another of one,
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from an altitude of an hundred yards, the great one arriveth at the
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ground, before the other is deſcended but one yard onely: Now
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