Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              per ſe
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              ; but if the concluſion be falſe, a man may proceed
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              in
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              finitum,
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              and never meet with any truth already known; but
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              ry oft he ſhall meet with ſome impoſſibility or manifeſt
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              ty. </s>
              <s>Nor need you queſtion but that
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              Pythagoras
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              along time
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              fore he found the demonſtration for which he offered the
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              tomb, had been certain, that the ſquare of the ſide ſubtending
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              the right angle in a rectangle triangle, was equal to the ſquare of
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              the other two ſides: and the certainty of the concluſion
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              ced not a little to the inveſtigating of the demonſtration,
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              derſtanding me alwayes to mean in demonſtrative Sciences. </s>
              <s>But
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              what ever was the method of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              and whether his arguing
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              à
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              priori
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              preceded ſenſe
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              à poſteriori,
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              or the contrary; it ſufficeth that
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              the ſame
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              Ariſtotle
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              preferreth (as hath been oft ſaid) ſenſible
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              periments before all diſcourſes; beſides, as to the Arugments
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              à
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              priori
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              their force hath been already examined. </s>
              <s>Now returning
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              to my purpoſed matter, I ſay, that the things in our times
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              covered in the Heavens, are, and have been ſuch, that they may
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              give abſolute ſatisfaction to all Philoſophers; foraſmuch as in
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              the particular bodies, and in the univerſal expanſion of Heaven,
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              there have been, and are continually, ſeen juſt ſuch accidents as
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              we call generations and corruptions, being that excellent
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              ſtronomers have obſerved many Comets generated and diſſolved
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              in parts higher than the Lunar Orb, beſides the two new Stars,
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              Anuo
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              1572, and
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              Anno
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              1604, without contradiction much higher
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              than all the Planets; and in the face of the Sun it ſelf, by help
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              of the
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              Teleſcope,
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              certain denſe and obſcure ſubſtances, in
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              blance very like to the foggs about the Earth, are ſeen to be
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              produced and diſſolved; and many of theſe are ſo vaſt, that
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              they far exceed not only the Mediterranian Streight, but all
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              Affrica
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              and
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              Aſia
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              alſo. </s>
              <s>Now if
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              Ariſtotle
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              had ſeen theſe things,
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              what think you he would have ſaid, and done
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              Simplicius?
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              The certaixty of
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              the concluſion
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              peth by areſolutive
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              method to ſind the
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              demonstration.
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              Pythagoras
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              offered
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              an Hecatomb for
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              a Geometrical
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              monſtration which
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              he found.
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              New ſtars
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              vered in Heaven.
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              Spots generate and
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              diſſolve in the face
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              of the Sun.
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              Solar spots are
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              bigger than all
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              ſia
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              and
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              Affrick.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I know not what
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              Ariſtotle
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              would have done or ſaid,
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              that was the great Maſter of all the Sciences, but yet I know in
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              part, what his Sectators do and ſay, and ought to do and ſay,
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              unleſſe they would deprive themſelves of their guide, leader, and
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              Prince in Philoſophy. </s>
              <s>As to the Comets, are not thoſe Modern
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              Aſtronomers, who would make them Cœleſtial, convinced by
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              the ^{*}
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              Anti-Tycho,
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              yea, and overcome with their own weapons, I
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              mean by way of Paralaxes and Calculations, every way tryed,
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              concluding at the laſt in favour of
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              Aristotle,
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              that they are all
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              Elementary? </s>
              <s>And this being overthrown, which was as it were
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              their foundation, have theſe Novelliſts any thing more
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              with to maintain their aſſertion?</s>
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              *
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              Aſtronomers
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              futed by
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              cho.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Hold a little, good
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              Simplicius,
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              this modern Author,
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              what ſaith he to the new Stars,
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              Anno
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              1572, and 1604, and to </s>
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