Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              comes from the reflection of the light of the Sun on the
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              cies of the Earth and Sea; and that light is more clear, by how
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              much the horns are leſſe, for then the luminous part of the Earth,
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              beheld by the Moon, is greater, according to that which was
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              a little before proved; to wit, that the luminous part of the Earth,
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              expoſed to the Moon, is alway as great as the obſcure part of
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              the Moon, that is viſible to the Earth; whereupon, at ſuch time
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              as the Moon is ſharp-forked, and conſequently its tenebrous part
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              great, great alſo is the illuminated part of the Earth beheld from
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              the Moon, and its reflection of light ſo much the more potent.</s>
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              Light reflected
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              from the Earth
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              to the Moon.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This is exactly the ſame with what I was about to ſay.
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              <s>In a word, it is a great pleaſure to ſpeak with perſons judicious
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              and apprehenſive, and the rather to me, for that whileſt others
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              converſe and diſcourſe touching Axiomatical truths, I have
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              ny times creeping into my brain ſuch arduous Paradoxes, that
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              though I have a thouſand times rehearſed this which you at the
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              ry firſt, have of your ſelf apprehended, yet could I never beat
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              it into mens brains.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>If you mean by your not being able to perſwade them
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              to it, that you could not make them underſtand the ſame, I
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              much wonder thereat, and am very confident that if they did
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              not underſtand it by your demonſtration (your way of expreſſion,
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              being, in my judgment, very plain) they would very hardly have
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              apprehended it upon the explication of any other man; but if
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              you mean you have not perſwaded them, ſo as to make them
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              lieve it, I wonder not, in the leaſt, at this; for I confeſſe my
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              ſelf to be one of thoſe who underſtand your diſcourſes, but
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              am not ſatisfied therewith; for there are in this, and ſome of
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              the other ſix congruities, or reſemblances, many difficulties,
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              which I ſhall inſtance in, when you have gone through them
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              all.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The deſire I have to find out any truth, in the acquiſt
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              whereof the objections of intelligent perſons (ſuch as your ſelf)
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              may much aſſiſt me, will cauſe me to be very brief in diſpatching
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              that which remains. </s>
              <s>For a ſeventh conformity, take their
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              procal reſponſion as well to injuries, as favours; whereby the
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              Moon, which very often in the height of its illumination, by the
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              interpoſure of the Earth betwixt it and the Sun, is deprived of
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              light, and eclipſed, doth by way of revenge; in like manner,
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              terpoſe it ſelf between the Earth and the Sun, and with its ſhadow
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              obſcureth the Earth; and although the revenge be not
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              able to the injury, for that the Moon often continueth, and
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              that for a reaſonable long time, wholly immerſed in the Earths
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              ſhadow, but never was the Earth wholly, nor for any long time,
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              eclipſed by the Moon; yet, nevertheleſſe, having reſpect to the </s>
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