Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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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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little; and eſpecially, by adding preſently after that, howbeit,
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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.</
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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. </
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he ſaith, that the
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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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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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let us hear the other inſtances that he brings, as much ſtronger.
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eth, that if the grand Orb of the Earth, or the ecliptick, in which
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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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; Maſſes certainly too exceſſively vaſt, unimaginable, and
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incredible.</
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Tycho
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his
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Tycho
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againſt
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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 </
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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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