Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 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. </s>
              <s>Therefore
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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.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>See here for a beginning, two moſt convincing
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              ments to demonſtrate the Earth to be moſt different from the
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              Cœleſtial bodies. </s>
              <s>Firſt, the bodies that are generable,
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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.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>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.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Hold a little, Sir, and take the reſt along with you,
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              and then tell me if this be not different from what you had
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              fore. </s>
              <s>In the former, the
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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. </s>
              <s>I prove the
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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. </s>
              <s>I take my ſecond Argument from a principal and eſſential
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              accident, and it is this. </s>
              <s>That body which is by its nature
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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.</s>
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              <s>
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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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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>As to the firſt, the ſtreſſe whereof you lay upon
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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.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I ſee in the Earth, plants and animals continually </s>
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