Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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Ptolomey
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Copernicus
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were they that have had the honour to
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ſee fartheſt into, and diſcourſe moſt profoundly of the
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Worlds
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Syſteme.
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About the Works of which famous Men theſe
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lous being chiefly converſant, I conceived it my duty to
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dicate them only to
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Your Highneſs.
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For laying all the weight
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upon theſe two, whom I hold to be the Ableſt Wits that
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have left us their Works upon theſe Subjects; to avoid a
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ciſmein Manners, I was obliged to addreſs them to Him, who
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with me, is the Greateſt of all Men, from whom they can
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have ſo farre illuminated my Underſtanding as that this my
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Book may in a great part be confeſſed to belong to them, well
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may it alſo be acknowledged to belong to
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Your Highneſs,
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unto
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whoſe Bounteous Magnificence I owe the time and leaſure I
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had to write it, as alſo unto Your Powerful Aſſiſtance, (never
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weary of honouring me) the means that at length I have had
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Your Highneſs
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therefore be pleaſed to accept
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of it according to Your accuſtomed Goodneſs; and if any
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thing ſhall be found therein, that may be ſubſervient towards
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the information or ſatisfaction of thoſe that are Lovers of
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Truth; let them acknowledge it to be due to
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Your Self,
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who are
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ſo expert in doing good, that Your Happy Dominion cannot
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ſhew the man that is concerned in any of thoſe general
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mities that diſturb the World; ſo that Praying for Your
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rity, and continuance in this Your Pious and Laudable
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ſtome, I humbly kiſs Your Hands;</
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Your Moſt Serene Highneſſes
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