Foscarini, Paolo Antonio
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An epistle to fantoni
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1661
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vertized, that that Scripture doth not ſpeak of a Local Motion,
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but of Mutations of another nature; as in the very ſubſtance,
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quantity or quality of the Earth it ſelf. </
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>But if it be ſaid, that
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it is to be underſtood of a Local Motion, then it may be ex
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plained by the inſuing Maxime, that is to ſay, a reſpect being had
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to the natural Place aſſigned it in the Univerſe, as ſhall be ſhewed
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by and by.</
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The Earth Se-
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cundum Totum
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Immutable,
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though not Immo
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vable.
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>The fourth Axiome is this; That every Corporeal thing, mo
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veable or immoveable from its very firſt Creation, is alotted its
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proper and natural place; and being drawn or removed from
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thence, its motion is violent, and it hath a natural tendency to
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move back thither again: alſo that nothing can be moved from
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its natural place,
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ſecundum Totum
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; For moſt great and dreadſul
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miſchiefs would follow from that perturbation of things in the
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Univerſe. </
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>Therefore neither the whole Earth, nor the whole
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Water, nor the whole Air can
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ſecundum totum
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be driuen or for
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ced out of their proper place, ſite, or Syſteme in the Univerſe,
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in reſpect of the order and diſpoſition of other mundane Bodies.
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>And thus there is no Star (though Erratick) Orb or Sphere that
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can deſert its natural place, although it may otherwiſe have ſome
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kind of motion. </
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>Therefore all things, how moveable ſoever,
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are notwithſtanding ſaid to be ſtable and immoveable in their
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proper place, according to the foreſaid ſenſe,
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i.e. </
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tum
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; For nothing hinders, but that
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ſecundum partes
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they may
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ſome waymove; which motion ſhall not be natural, but violent.
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>Therefore the Earth, although it ſhould be moveable, yet it
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might be ſaid to be immoveable, according to the precedent
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Maxime, for that its neither moved in a right Motion nor out of
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the Courſe aſſigned it in its Creation for the ſtanding Rule of its
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motion; but keep within its own ſite, being placed in that
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which is called the Grand Orb, above
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Venus,
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and beneath
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Mars,
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and being in the middle betwixt theſe (which according to the
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common opinion is the Suns place) it equally and continually
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moveth about the Sun, and the two other intermediate Planets,
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namely
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Venus
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and
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Mercury,
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and hath the Moon (which is another
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Earth, but Ætherial, as
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Macrobius
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after ſome of the ancient Phi
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loſophers, will have it) about it ſelf. </
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ſhe perſiſteth uniformly in her Courſe, and never at any time
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departeth from it, ſhe may be ſaid to be ſtable and immoveable:
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and in the ſame ſenſe Heaven likewiſe, with all the Elements,
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may be ſaid to be immoveable.</
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The Earth can
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not
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Secundum To
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tum,
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remove out of
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its Natural Place.
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The Natural
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Place of the Earth.
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The Moon is an
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Ætherial Body.
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nature, that their parts may be
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ab invicem,
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or by turns, ſe
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parated from themſelves, and diſ-joyned from their Whole; </
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