Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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our Diſputations according to yeſterdayes appointment, it is
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quiſite that we firſt hear what account
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De ſtellis novis,
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and then without interruption we
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tus
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touching thoſe ſtars? </
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ven to theſe lower regions, by vertue of that Authours
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ons, whom
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have this morning had another view of him, to ſee whether that
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which he ſeemed over night to affirm, were really his ſenſe, or my
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dreams and phantaſtical nocturnal imaginations; and in the cloſe
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found to my great grief that thoſe things were really written and
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printed, which for the reputation-ſake of this Philoſopher I was
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ſhould perceive the vanity of his undertaking, aſwell becauſe it is
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too apert, as becauſe I remember, that I have heard him
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ned with applauſe by the
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Academick our Friend
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: it ſeemeth to
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me alſo to be a thing very unlikely, that in complacency to others,
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he ſhould be induced to ſet ſo low a value upon his reputation, as
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to give conſent to the publication of a work, for which he could
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expect no other than the cenſure of the Learned.</
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than one for an hundred, compared to thoſe that ſhall celebrate
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and extoll him above the greateſt wits that are, or ever have been
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in the world: He is one that hath mentioned the
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tick inalterability of Heaven againſt a troop of
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Aſtronomers,
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and
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that to their greater diſgrace hath foiled them at their own
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pons; and what do you think four or five in a Countrey that
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cern his triflings, can do againſt the innumerable multitude, that,
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not being able to diſcover or comprehend them, ſuffer themſelves
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to be taken with words, and ſo much more applaud him, by how
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much the leſſe they underſtand him? </
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thoſe few who underſtand, ſcorn to give an anſwer to papers ſo
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trivial and unconcludent; and that upon very good reaſons,
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cauſe to the intelligent there is no need thereof, and to thoſe that
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do not underſtand, it is but labour loſt.</
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certainly be ſilence, if there were not other reaſons, for which it
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is haply no leſſe than neceſſary to reſent their timerity: one of
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which is, that we
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Italians
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thereby incur the cenſure of Illiterates,
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and attract the laughter of Forreigners; and eſpecially to ſuch
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who are ſeparated from our Religion; and I could ſhew you
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ny of thoſe of no ſmall eminency, who ſcoff at our
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Academick,
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