Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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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.</
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Simplicius
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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. </
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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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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? </
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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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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.</
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The original of
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cording to
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and according
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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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verſie about the original of the Nerves is not yet ſo proved and
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decided, as ſome may perhaps perſwade themſelves.</
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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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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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