Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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an enterprize of pulling the new ſtars out of heaven, and placing
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them in the elementary Sphere, he ſhall be worthy to be highly
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exalted, and transferred himſelf amongſt the ſtars, or at leaſt,
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that his name be by fame eternized amongſt them. </
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enter upon this, let us hear what he alledgeth againſt the opinion
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Copernicus,
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and do you begin to recite his Arguments.</
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becauſe they are very prolix; but I, as you may ſee, in reading
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them ſeveral times attentively, have marked in the margine thoſe
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words, wherein the ſtrength of his arguments lie, and it will
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Et
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primo, ſi opinio Copernici recipiatur, Criterium naturalis
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ſophiæ, ni prorſus tollatur, vehementer ſaltem labefactari
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videtur.
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[In our Idiom thus] And firſt, if
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Copernicus
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his opinion
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Criterium
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of natural Philoſophy will be, if not
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wholly ſubverted, yet at leaſt extreamly ſhaken.</
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The opinion of
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Copernicus
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throws the
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rium
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of Philoſophy
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requireth, that Senſe and Experience be our guides in
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ting: But in the
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Copernican
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poſition the Senſes are greatly
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ded, whil'ſt that they viſibly diſcover neer at hand in a pure
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um,
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the graveſt bodies to deſcend perpendicularly downwards,
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ver deviating a ſingle hairs breadth from rectitude; and yet
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ding to the opinion of
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Copernicus,
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the ſight in ſo manifeſt a thing
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is deceived, and that motion is not reall ſtraight, but mixt of
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right and circular.</
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Ariſtotle, Ptolomy,
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and
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all their followers do produce; to which we have
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ly anſwered, and ſhewn the Paralogiſme, and with ſufficient
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plainneſſe proved, that the motion in common to us and other
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veables, is, as if there were no ſuch thing; but becauſe true
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cluſions meet with a thouſand accidents, that confirme them, I
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will, with the favour of this Philoſopher, adde ſomething more;
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and you
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Simplicius
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perſonating him, anſwer me to what I ſhall
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ask you: And firſt tell me, what effect hath that ſtone upon you,
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which falling from the top of the Tower, is the cauſe that you
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ceive that motion; for if its fall doth operate upon you neither
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more nor leſſe, than its ſtanding ſtill on the Towers top, you
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doubtleſſe could not diſcern its deſcent, or diſtinguiſh its moving
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from its lying ſtill.</
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Common motion
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is, as if it never
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The argument
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taken from things
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falling
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larly, another way
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confuted.
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for that I ſee it one while juſt againſt ſuch a mark in the ſaid
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Tower, and another while againſt another lower, and ſo
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ſively, till that at laſt I perceive it arrived at the ground.</
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Eagle flying, and ſhould deſcend thorow the ſimple inviſible Air, </
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