Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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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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that this
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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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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.</
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point in hand; but what have you to do with Schools and
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kets? </
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>Is it not all one whether opinions and inventions be new to
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men, or the men new to them? </
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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. </
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>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. </
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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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