Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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quence the right or ſtraight motion of ſimple natural bodies, as
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being of no uſe in nature, and eſteems the Earth it ſelf alſo to
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be one of the Cœleſtial bodies adorn'd with all the prerogatives
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that agree with them; which laſt diſcourſe is hitherto much
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more likely, in my judgment, than that other. </
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ſolve,
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Simplicius,
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to produce all the particular reaſons,
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ments and obſervations, as well Natural as Aſtronomical, that
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may ſerve to perſwade us that the Earth differeth from the
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leſtial bodies, is immoveable, and ſituated in the Centre of the
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World, and what ever elſe excludes its moving like to the Planets,
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as
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Jupiter
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or the
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Moon, &c.
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And
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Salviatus
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will be pleaſed to
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be ſo civil as to anſwer to them one by one.</
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ments to demonſtrate the Earth to be moſt different from the
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Cœleſtial bodies. </
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ptible, alterable,
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&c.
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are quite different from thoſe that are
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generable, incorruptible, unalterable,
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&c.
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But the Earth is
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nerable, corruptible, alterable,
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&c.
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and the Cœleſtial bodies
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generable, incorruptible, unalterable,
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&c.
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Therefore the Earth
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is quite different from the Cœleſtial bodies.</
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>By your firſt Argument you ſpread the Table with the
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ſame Viands, which but juſt now with much adoe were voided.</
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and then tell me if this be not different from what you had
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fore. </
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Minor
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was proved
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à priori,
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& now you ſee
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it proved
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à poſteriori:
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Judg then if it be the ſame. </
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Minor,
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therefore (the
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Major
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being moſt manifeſt) by ſenſible
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perience, which ſhews us that in the Earth there are made
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nual generations, corruptions, alterations,
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&c.
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which neither our
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ſenſes, nor the traditions or memories of our Anceſtors, ever ſaw
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an inſtance of in Heaven; therefore Heaven is unalterable,
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&c.
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and the Earth alterable,
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&c.
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and therefore different from
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ven. </
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accident, and it is this. </
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ſcure and deprived of light, is divers from the luminous and
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ning bodies; but the Earth is obſcure and void of light, and the
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Cœleſtial bodies ſplendid, and full of light;
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Ergo, &c.
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Anſwer
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to theſe Arguments firſt, that we may not heap up too many,
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and then I will alledge others.</
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Heaven
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ble, becauſe there
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never was any
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tation ſeen in it.
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Bodies naturally
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lucid, are different
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from thoſe which
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are by nature
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ſcure.
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perience, I deſire that you would a little more diſtinctly produce
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me the alteration which you ſee made in the Earth, and not in
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Heaven; upon which you call the Earth alterable, and the
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vens not ſo.</
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