Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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from the impure, the mortal from the immortal, as other Schools
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teach; which tell us that theſe impure and frail matters are
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teined within the anguſt concave of the Lunar Orb, above which
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with uninterrupted Series the things Celeſtial diſtend themſelves.</
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the diſparity of eſſence between the Earth and Celeſtial bodies
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from the incorruptibility of them, and the corruptibility of it in
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the method of
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from which diſparity he concludeth
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tion to belong to the Sun and fixed Stars, and the immobility of
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the Earth, he will flatter himſelf with a Paralogiſme, ſuppoſing
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that which is in queſtion; for
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inferreth the
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lity of Celeſtial bodies from motion, which is in diſpute,
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ther it belongeth to them or to the Earth. </
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Rhetorical Illations enough hath been ſpoken. </
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more fond, than to ſay, that the Earth and Elements are
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ſhed and ſequeſtred from the Celeſtial Spheres, and confined
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within the Lunar Orb? </
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>Is, not then the Moons Orb one of the
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Celeſtial Spheres, and according to conſent compriſed in the
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middle of all the reſt? </
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the impure, and the ſick from the ſound, to aſſigne the infected
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quarters in the heart of the City: I had thought that the ^{*}
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houſe ought to have been removed as far off as was poſſible.
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Copernicus
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admireth the diſpoſition of the parts of the Univerſe,
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for that God hath conſtituted the grand Lamp, which is to give
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light all over his Temple in the centre of it, and not on one
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Venus
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Mars,
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we will but hint the ſame; and do you, in favour of this Author,
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trie to remove it thence. </
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Flowers with ſolid Demonſtrations, rather let us leave them to
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the Orators, or if you will to the Poets, who know how in their
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drolling way to exalt by their prayſes things moſt ſordid, yea and
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ſometimes moſt pernicious. </
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diſpatch it, as we have done the reſt.</
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The Paralogiſme
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Anti-Tycho.
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It ſeemeth a
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folly to affirm the
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Earth to be
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out the Heavens.
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Intrecciare,
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keth it a very improbale thing. [
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That a corruptible and diſſipable
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body ſhould move with a perpetual and regular motion; and this
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he confirmeth with the example of living creatures, which moving
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with a motion natural to them, yet grow weary, and have need of
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repoſe to reſtore their ſtrength.
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] But what hath this motion to do
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with that of the Earth, that in compariſon to theirs is immenſe?
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ſeveral wayes: Who would ever aſſert ſuch Paradoxes, unleſſe
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he had ſworn to be their defender? </
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