1mixed places out of the ſacred Scriptures (alwayes venerable, and
to be rever'd) amongſt theſe, but two ſcurrilous fooleries, and
attempting to wound with holy Weapons, thoſe who
phating in jeſt, and for divertiſement, neither affirm nor deny,
but, ſome preſuppoſals and poſitions being aſſumed, do
arly argue.
to be rever'd) amongſt theſe, but two ſcurrilous fooleries, and
attempting to wound with holy Weapons, thoſe who
phating in jeſt, and for divertiſement, neither affirm nor deny,
but, ſome preſuppoſals and poſitions being aſſumed, do
arly argue.
SIMP. Truth is, he hath diſpleaſed me alſo, and that not a
little; and eſpecially, by adding preſently after that, howbeit,
the Copernichists anſwer, though but very impertinently to theſe
and ſuch like other reaſons, yet can they not reconcile nor anſwer
thoſe things that follow.
little; and eſpecially, by adding preſently after that, howbeit,
the Copernichists anſwer, though but very impertinently to theſe
and ſuch like other reaſons, yet can they not reconcile nor anſwer
thoſe things that follow.
SALV. This is worſe than all the reſt; for he pretendeth to
have things more efficacious and concludent than the Authorities
of the ſacred Leaves; But I pray you, let us reverence them,
and paſſe on to natural and humane reaſons: and yet if he give
us amongſt his natural arguments, things of no more ſolidity,
than thoſe hitherto alleadged, we may wholly decline this
taking, for I as to my own parricular, do not think it fit to ſpend
words in anſwering ſuch trifling impertinencies. And as to what
he ſaith, that the Copernicans anſwer to theſe objections, it is
moſt falſe, nor may it be thought, that any man ſhould ſet him
ſelf to waſt his time ſo
have things more efficacious and concludent than the Authorities
of the ſacred Leaves; But I pray you, let us reverence them,
and paſſe on to natural and humane reaſons: and yet if he give
us amongſt his natural arguments, things of no more ſolidity,
than thoſe hitherto alleadged, we may wholly decline this
taking, for I as to my own parricular, do not think it fit to ſpend
words in anſwering ſuch trifling impertinencies. And as to what
he ſaith, that the Copernicans anſwer to theſe objections, it is
moſt falſe, nor may it be thought, that any man ſhould ſet him
ſelf to waſt his time ſo
Suppoſing the
annual motion to
belong to the Earth,
it followeth, that
one fixed Star, is
bigger than the
whole grand Orb.
annual motion to
belong to the Earth,
it followeth, that
one fixed Star, is
bigger than the
whole grand Orb.
SIMP. I concur with you in the ſame judgment; therefore
let us hear the other inſtances that he brings, as much ſtronger.
And obſerve here, how he with very exact computations
eth, that if the grand Orb of the Earth, or the ecliptick, in which
Copernicus maketh it to run in a year round the Sun, ſhould be
as it were, inſenſible, in reſpect of the immenſitie of the Starry
Sphære, according as the ſaid Copernicus, ſaith it is to be
poſed, it would be neceſſary to grant and confirm, that the fixed
Stars were remote from us, an unconceivable diſtance, and that
the leſſer of them, were bigger than the whole grand Orb
ſaid, and ſome other much bigger than the whole Sphære of
turn; Maſſes certainly too exceſſively vaſt, unimaginable, and
incredible.
let us hear the other inſtances that he brings, as much ſtronger.
And obſerve here, how he with very exact computations
eth, that if the grand Orb of the Earth, or the ecliptick, in which
Copernicus maketh it to run in a year round the Sun, ſhould be
as it were, inſenſible, in reſpect of the immenſitie of the Starry
Sphære, according as the ſaid Copernicus, ſaith it is to be
poſed, it would be neceſſary to grant and confirm, that the fixed
Stars were remote from us, an unconceivable diſtance, and that
the leſſer of them, were bigger than the whole grand Orb
ſaid, and ſome other much bigger than the whole Sphære of
turn; Maſſes certainly too exceſſively vaſt, unimaginable, and
incredible.
Tycho his
gument grounded
upon a falſe
theſis.
gument grounded
upon a falſe
theſis.
SALV. I have heretofore ſeen ſuch another objection brought
by Tycho againſt Copernicus, and this is not the firſt time that I
have diſcovered the fallacy, or, to ſay better, the fallacies of this
Argumemtation, founded upon a moſt falſe Hypotheſis, and upon
by Tycho againſt Copernicus, and this is not the firſt time that I
have diſcovered the fallacy, or, to ſay better, the fallacies of this
Argumemtation, founded upon a moſt falſe Hypotheſis, and upon
a Piopoſition of the ſaid Copernicus, underſtood by his
ries, with too punctual a nicity, according to the practiſe of thoſe
pleaders, who finding the flaw to be in the very merit of their
cauſe, keep to ſome one word, fallen unawares from the
ry partie, and fly out into loud and tedious deſcants upon that.
But for your better information; Copernicus having declared