Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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ſeperate from the Earth, for the reaſons that ſhall be more
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ly alledged hereafter.</
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The mutation
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Venus
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argueth its motion
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to be about the Sun.
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The Moon
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not ſeperate from
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the Earth.
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>I expect that I ſhall hear more admirable things that
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depend upon this annual motion of the Earth, than were thoſe
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dependant upon the diurnal
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The annual
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tion of the Earth
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mixing with the
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motions of the
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ther Planets
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duce extravagant
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appearances.
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the diurnal motion upon the Celeſtial bodies, it neither was, nor
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can be other, than to make the Univerſe ſeem to run precipitately
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the contrary way; but this annual motion intermixing with the
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particular motions of all the planets, produceth very many
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travagancies, which have diſarmed and non-pluſt all the greateſt
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Scholars in the World. </
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henſions, I reply that the centre of the Celeſtial converſions of
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the five planets
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Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus
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Mercury,
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is
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the Sun; and ſhall be likewiſe the centre of the motion of the
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Earth, if we do but ſucceed in our attempt of placing it in
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ven. </
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Earth, from which (as I ſaid before) it can by no means alienate
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it ſelf, but yet doth it not ceaſe to go about the Sun together with
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the Earth in an annual motion.</
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it may be, that with making a few draughts thereof, one may
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ter and more eaſily diſcourſe concerning the ſame.</
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miration together, I deſire you, that you would take the pains
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to draw the ſame; and to ſee that although you think you do not
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apprehend it, yet you very perfectly underſtand it; And onely
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by anſwering to my interrogations you ſhall deſigne it punctually. </
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Take therefore a ſheet of paper and Compaſles; And let this
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white paper be the immenſe expanſion of the Univerſe; in which
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you are to diſtribute and diſpoſe its parts in order, according as
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reaſon ſhall direct you. </
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ſtruction you verily believe that the Earth is placed in this
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verſe, therefore note a point at pleaſure, about which you
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tend it to to be placed, and mark it with ſome characters.</
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The Syſteme of
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the Univerſe
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ſigned from the
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pearances.
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fectly that the ſaid Earth is not within the body of the Sun, nor
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ſo much as contiguous to it, but diſtant for ſome ſpace from the
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ſame, and therefore aſſign to the Sun what other place you beſt
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like, as remote from the Earth as you pleaſe, and mark this in
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like manner.</
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