Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              as to have received it for truth; but borrowing it from others, I
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              cannot find any reaſon ſufficient to excuſe him for not perceiving
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              its fallacies; and eſpecially after he had heard the true cauſe of
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              that effect, and had it in his power to ſatisfie himſelf by a thouſand
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              experiments, and manifeſt circumſtances, that the ſame proceeded
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              from the reflection of the Earth, and from nothing elſe: and the more
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              this ſpeculation makes ſomething to be deſired, in the judgment of
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              this Author, and of all thoſe who give no credit to it: ſo much the
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              more doth their not having underſtood and remembred it, excuſe
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              thoſe more receſs Antients, who, I am very certain, did they now
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              underſtand it, would without the leaſt repugnance admit thereof.
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              <s>And if I may freely tell you what I think, I cannot believe but
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              that this
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              Modern
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              doth in his heart believe it; but I rather think,
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              that the conceit he ſhould not be the firſt Author thereof, did a
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              little move him to endeavour to ſuppreſſe it, or to diſparage it at
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              leaſt amongſt the ſimple, whoſe number we know to be very
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              great; and many there are, who much more affect the
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              rous applauds of the people, than the approbation of a few not
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              vulgar judgments.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Hold good
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              Salviatus,
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              for me thinks, I ſee that you
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              go not the way to hit the true mark in this your diſcourſe, for theſe
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              that ^{*} confound all propriety, know alſo how to make themſelves
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              Authors of others inventions, provided they be not ſo ſtale,
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              and publick in the Schools and Market-places, as that they are more
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              then notorious to every one.</s>
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              * Tendono le
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              te al commune.</s>
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              <s>SALV. Ha! well aimed, you blame me for roving from the
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              point in hand; but what have you to do with Schools and
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              kets? </s>
              <s>Is it not all one whether opinions and inventions be new to
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              men, or the men new to them? </s>
              <s>If you ^{*} contend about the
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              ſteem of the Founders of Sciences, which in all times do ſtart up,
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              you may make your ſelf their inventor, even to the Alphabet it
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              ſelf, and ſo gain admiration amongſt that illiterate rabble; and
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              though in proceſſe of time your craft ſhould be perceived, that
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              would but little prejudice your deſigne; for that others would
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              ſucceed them in maintaining the number of your fautors; but let
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              us return to prove to
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              Simplicius
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              the invalidity of the reaſons of his
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              modern Author, in which there are ſeveral falſities,
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              cies, and incredible Paradoxes. </s>
              <s>And firſt, it is falſe that this
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              condary light is clearer about the utmoſt limb than in the middle
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              parts, ſo as to form, as it were, a ring or circle more bright than
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              the reſt of its ſpace or contence. </s>
              <s>True it is, indeed, that looking
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              on the Moon at the time of twilight, at firſt ſight there is the
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              ſemblance of ſuch a circle, but by an illuſion ariſing from the
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              verſity of confines that bound the Moons
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              Diſcus,
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              which are
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              fuſed by means of this ſecondary light; foraſmuch as on the part </s>
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