Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>See
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              Simplicius
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              what an inveterate affection and
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              ted opinion can do, ſince it is ſo powerful, that it makes you think
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              that thoſe very things favour you, which you produce againſt
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              your ſelf. </s>
              <s>For if ſeparation and diſtance are accidents ſufficient to
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              perſwade with you a great diverſity of natures, it mnſt follow that
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              proximity and contiguity import ſimilitude. </s>
              <s>Now how much more
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              neerer is the Moon to the Earth, than to any other of the Cœleſtial
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              Orbs? </s>
              <s>You muſt acknowledg therefore, according to your own
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              ceſſion (and you ſhall have other Philoſophers bear you company)
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              that there is a very great affinity betwixt the Earth and Moon.
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              <s>Now let us proceed, and ſee whether any thing remains to be
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              ſidered, touching thoſe objections which you made againſt the
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              ſemblances that are between theſe two bodies.</s>
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              Affinity between
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              he Earth & Moon
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              in reſpect of their
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              vicinity.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>It reſts, that we ſay ſomething touching the ſolidity of
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              the Moon, which I argued from its being exquiſite ſmooth and
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              polite, and you from its montuoſity. </s>
              <s>There is another ſcruple
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              ſo comes into my mind, from an opinion which I have, that the
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              Seas reflection ought by the equality of its ſurface, to be rendered
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              ſtronger than that of the Earth, whoſe ſuperficies is ſo rough and
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              opacous.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>As to the firſt objection; I ſay, that like as among the
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              parts of the Earth, which all by their gravity ſtrive to approach the
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              neareſt they can poſſible to the center, ſome of them alwayes are
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              more remote from it than the reſt, as the mountains more than
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              the valleys, and that by reaſon of their ſolidity and firmneſſe
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              (for if they were of fluid, they would be even) ſo the ſeeing ſome
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              parts of the Moon to be elevated above the ſphericity of the
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              er parts, argueth their hardneſſe; for it is probable that the
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              ter of the Moon is reduced into a ſpherical form by the
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              ous conſpiration of all its parts to the ſame ſentenſe. </s>
              <s>Touching
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              the ſecond doubt, my thinks that the particulars already obſerved
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              to happen in the Looking-glaſſes, may very well aſſure us, that the
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              reflection of light comming from the Sea, is far weaker than that
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              which cometh from Land; underſtanding it alwayes of the
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              univerſal reflection; for as to that particular, on which the
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              ter being calm, caſteth upon a determinate place, there is no
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              doubt, but that he who ſhall ſtand in that place, ſhall ſee a very
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              great reflection in the water, but every way elſe he ſhall ſee the
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              ſurface of the Water more obſcure than that of the Land; and to
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              prove it to your ſenſes, let us go into yonder Hall, and power
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              forth a little water upon the Pavement. </s>
              <s>Tell me now, doth not
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              this wet brick ſhew more dull than the other dry ones? </s>
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              leſſe it doth, and will ſo appear, from what place ſoever you
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              hold it, except one onely, and this is that way which the light
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              cometh, that entereth in at yonder window; go backwards
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              therefore by a little and a little.</s>
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