Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I not onely ſmile, but to tell you true, am ready to
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              burſt with holding in my ſelf from laughing outright, for you
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              have put me in mind of a very pretty paſſage, that I was a
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              neſſe of, not many years ſince, together with ſome others of
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              my worthy friends, which I could yet name unto you.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It would be well that you told us what it was, that ſo
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              Simplicius
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              may not ſtill think that he gave you the occaſion of
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              laughter.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I am content. </s>
              <s>I found one day, at home in his houſe, at
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              Venice,
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              a famous Phiſician, to whom ſome flockt for their ſtudies,
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              and others out of curioſity, ſometimes came thither to ſee certain
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              natomies diſſected by the hand of a no leſſe learned, than careful
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              and experienced Anatomiſt. </s>
              <s>It chanced upon that day, when I was
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              there, that he was in ſearch of the original and riſe of the Nerves,
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              about which there is a famous controverſie between the
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              Galeniſts
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              and
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              Peripateticks
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              ; and the Anatomiſt ſhewing, how that the great
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              number of Nerves departing from the Brain, as their root, and
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              paſſing by the nape of the Neck, diſtend themſelves afterwards
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              along by the Back-bone, and branch themſelves thorow all the
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              Body; and that a very ſmall filament, as fine as a thred went to
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              the Heart; he turned to a Gentleman whom he knew to be a
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              ripatetick
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              Philoſopher, and for whoſe ſake he had with
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              dinary exactneſſe, diſcovered and proved every thing, and
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              ed of him, if he was at length ſatisfied and perſwaded that the
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              nal of the Nerves proceeded from the Brain, and not from the
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              Heart? </s>
              <s>To which the Philoſopher, after he had ſtood muſing a
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              while, anſwered; you have made me to ſee this buſineſſe ſo
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              plainly and ſenſibly, that did not the
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              Text
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              of
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              Ariſtotle
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              aſſert the
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              contrary, which poſitively affirmeth the Nerves to proceed from
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              the Heart, I ſhould be conſtrained to confeſſe your opinion to be
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              true.</s>
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              The original of
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              the Nerv s. </s>
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              cording to
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              tle,
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              and according
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              to Phiſicians.
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              The ridiculus
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              anſwer of a
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              ſopher,
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              ning the original of
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              the Nerves.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I would have you know my Maſters, that this
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              verſie about the original of the Nerves is not yet ſo proved and
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              decided, as ſome may perhaps perſwade themſelves.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Nor queſtionleſſe ever ſhall it be, if it find ſuch like
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              contradictors; but that which you ſay, doth not at all leſſen the
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              extravagance of the anſwer of that
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              Peripatetick,
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              who againſt
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              ſuch ſenſible experience produced not other experiments, or
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              ſons of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              but his bare authority and pure
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              ipſe dixit.
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              <s>SIMPL.
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              Ariſtotle
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              had not gained ſo great authority, but for
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              the force of his Demonſtrations, and the profoundneſſe of his
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              arguments; but it is requiſite that we underſtand him, and not
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              onely underſtand him, but have ſo great familiarity with his
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              Books, that we form a perfect
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              Idea
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              thereof in our minds, ſo as
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              that every ſaying of his may be alwayes as it were, preſent in our </s>
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