Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              Mathematician) that the motion of the Earth meeting with the
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              motion of the Lunar Orb, the concurrence of them occaſioneth
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              the Ebbing and Flowing, is an abſolute vanity, not onely
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              cauſe it is not expreſt, nor ſeen how it ſhould ſo happen, but the
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              falſity is obvious, for that the Revolution of the Earth is not
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              trary to the motion of the Moon, but is towards the ſame way.
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              <s>So that all that hath been hitherto ſaid, and imagined by others,
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              is, in my judgment, altogether invalid. </s>
              <s>But amongſt all the
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              famous men that have philoſophated upon this admirable effect
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              of Nature, I more wonder at
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              Kepler
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              than any of the reſt, who
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              being of a free and piercing wit, and having the motion
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              bed to the Earth, before him, hath for all that given his ear and
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              aſſent to the Moons predominancy over the Water, and to
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              cult properties, and ſuch like trifles.</s>
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              One ſingle
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              on of the
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              al Globe ſufficeth
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              not to produce the
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              Ebbing & Flowing
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              The opinion of
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              Seleucus
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              the
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              thematician
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              red.
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              Kepler
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              is with
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              veſpect blamed.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I am of opinion, that to theſe more ſpaculative
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              ſons the ſame happened, that at preſent befalls me, namely, the
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              not underſtanding the intricate commixtion of the three Periods
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              Annual, Monethly, and Diurnal; And how their cauſes ſhould
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              ſeem to depend on the Sun, and on the Moon, without the Suns
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              or Moons having any thing to do with the Water; a buſineſſe,
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              for the full underſtanding of which I ſtand in need of a little
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              longer time to conſider thereof, which the novelty and difficulty
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              of it hath hitherto hindred me from doing: but I deſpair not, but
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              that when I return in my ſolitude and ſilence to ruminate that
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              which remaineth in my fancy, not very well digeſted, I ſhall
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              make it my own. </s>
              <s>We have now, from theſe four dayes
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              courſe, great atteſtations, in favour of the
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              Copernican
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              Syſteme,
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              amongſt which theſe three taken: the firſt, from the Stations and
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              Retrogradations of the Planets, and from their approaches, and
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              receſſions from the Earth; the ſecond, from the Suns revolving
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              in it ſelf, and from what is obſerved in its ſpots; the third, from
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              the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea do ſhew very rational and
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              concluding.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>To which alſo haply, in ſhort, one might adde a
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              fourth, and peradventure a fifth; a fourth, I ſay, taken from
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              the fixed ſtars, ſeeing that in them, upon exact obſervations, thoſe
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              minute mutations appear, that
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              Copernicus
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              thought to have been
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              inſenſible. </s>
              <s>There ſtarts up, at this inſtant, a fifth novelty, from
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              which one may argue mobility in the Terreſtrial Globe, by
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              means of that which the moſt Illuſtrious
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              Signore Cæſare,
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              of the
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              noble Family of the
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              Marſilii
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              of
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              Bologna,
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              and a
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              Lyncean
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              demick, diſcovereth with much ingenuity, who in a very learned
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              Tract of his, ſheweth very particularly how that he had obſerved
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              a continual mutation, though very ſlow in the Meridian line,
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              of which Treatiſe, at length, with amazement, peruſed by me, </s>
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