Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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of which is (as hath often been ſaid) the determinate
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tion and retardation of the parts of the Earth, from whence
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the Waters have a determinate period put to their decurſions
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towards the Eaſt, and return towards the Weſt, in the time of
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>The other is that which dependeth on the
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per gravity of the Water, which being once commoved by the
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primary cauſe, ſeeketh, in the next place, to reduce it ſelf to
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quilibrium,
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with iterated reciprocations; which are not
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mined by one ſole and prefixed time; but have as many
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ties of times as are the different lengths and profundities of the
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receptacles, and Straights of Seas; and by what dependeth on
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this ſecond principle, they would ebbe. </
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hour, others in two, in four, in ſix, in eight, in ten, &c. </
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we begin to put together the firſt cauſe, which hath its ſet Period
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from twelve hours to twelve hours, with ſome one of the
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dary, that hath its Period
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from five hours to five
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hours, it would come to paſſe, that at ſometimes the primary
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cauſe and ſecondary would accord to make impulſes both one
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and the ſame way; and in this concurrency, and (as one may call
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it) unanimous conſpiration the flowings ſhall be great. </
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times it happening that the primary impulſe doth, in a certain
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manner, oppoſe that which the ſecondary Period would make,
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and in this conteſt one of the Principles being taken away, that
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which the other would give, will weaken the commotion of the
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Waters, and the Sea will return to a very tranquil State, and
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almoſt immoveable. </
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aforeſaid Principles ſhall neither altogether conteſt, nor
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ther concur, there ſhall be other kinds of alterations made in
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the increaſe and diminution of the ebbing and flowing. </
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likewiſe fall out that two Seas, conſiderably great and which
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communicate by ſome narrow Channel, may chance to have, by
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reaſon of the mixtion of the two Principles of motion, one
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cauſe to flow at the time that the other hath cauſe to move a
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contrary way; in which caſe in the Channel, whereby they
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imbogue themſelves into each other, there do extraordinary
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conturbations inſue, with oppoſite and vortick motions, and
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moſt dangerous boilings and breakings, as frequent relations
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and experiences do aſſure us. </
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ons, dependent not onely on the differenr poſitions and
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tudes, but very much alſo upon the different profundities of the
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Seas, which have the ſaid intercourſe there do happen at
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times different commotions in the Waters, irregular, and that
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can be reduced to no rules of obſervation, the reaſons of which
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have much troubled, and alwayes do trouble Mariners, for that
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they meet with them without ſeeing either impulſe of winds, or </
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