Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              mixed places out of the ſacred Scriptures (alwayes venerable, and
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              to be rever'd) amongſt theſe, but two ſcurrilous fooleries, and
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              attempting to wound with holy Weapons, thoſe who
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              phating in jeſt, and for divertiſement, neither affirm nor deny,
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              but, ſome preſuppoſals and poſitions being aſſumed, do
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              arly argue.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Truth is, he hath diſpleaſed me alſo, and that not a
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              little; and eſpecially, by adding preſently after that, howbeit,
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              the
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              Copernichists
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              anſwer, though but very impertinently to theſe
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              and ſuch like other reaſons, yet can they not reconcile nor anſwer
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              thoſe things that follow.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This is worſe than all the reſt; for he pretendeth to
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              have things more efficacious and concludent than the Authorities
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              of the ſacred Leaves; But I pray you, let us reverence them,
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              and paſſe on to natural and humane reaſons: and yet if he give
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              us amongſt his natural arguments, things of no more ſolidity,
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              than thoſe hitherto alleadged, we may wholly decline this
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              taking, for I as to my own parricular, do not think it fit to ſpend
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              words in anſwering ſuch trifling impertinencies. </s>
              <s>And as to what
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              he ſaith, that the
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              Copernicans
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              anſwer to theſe objections, it is
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              moſt falſe, nor may it be thought, that any man ſhould ſet him
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              ſelf to waſt his time ſo
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              Suppoſing the
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              annual motion to
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              belong to the Earth,
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              it followeth, that
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              one fixed Star, is
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              bigger than the
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              whole grand Orb.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I concur with you in the ſame judgment; therefore
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              let us hear the other inſtances that he brings, as much ſtronger.
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              <s>And obſerve here, how he with very exact computations
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              eth, that if the grand Orb of the Earth, or the ecliptick, in which
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              Copernicus
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              maketh it to run in a year round the Sun, ſhould be
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              as it were, inſenſible, in reſpect of the immenſitie of the Starry
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              Sphære, according as the ſaid
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              Copernicus,
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              ſaith it is to be
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              poſed, it would be neceſſary to grant and confirm, that the fixed
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              Stars were remote from us, an unconceivable diſtance, and that
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              the leſſer of them, were bigger than the whole grand Orb
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              ſaid, and ſome other much bigger than the whole Sphære of
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              turn
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              ; Maſſes certainly too exceſſively vaſt, unimaginable, and
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              incredible.</s>
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              Tycho
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              his
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              gument grounded
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              upon a falſe
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              theſis.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I have heretofore ſeen ſuch another objection brought
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              by
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              Tycho
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              againſt
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              Copernicus,
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              and this is not the firſt time that I
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              have diſcovered the fallacy, or, to ſay better, the fallacies of this
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              Argumemtation, founded upon a moſt falſe Hypotheſis, and upon </s>
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              a Piopoſition of the ſaid
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              Copernicus,
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              underſtood by his
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              ries, with too punctual a nicity, according to the practiſe of thoſe
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              pleaders, who finding the flaw to be in the very merit of their
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              cauſe, keep to ſome one word, fallen unawares from the
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              ry partie, and fly out into loud and tedious deſcants upon that.
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              <s>But for your better information;
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              Copernicus
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              having declared </s>
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