GALILÆUS
Galilæus Lyncæus,
HIS
SYSTEME
OF THE
WORLD.
Galilæus Lyncæus,
HIS
SYSTEME
OF THE
WORLD.
The Third Dialogue.
INTERLOCVTORS.
SALVIATUS, SAGREDUS, and SIMPLICIUS.
SAGR. The great deſire wherewith I have expected
your coming, that I might hear the novel
conceits touching the annual
on of this our Globe, hath made me
think the houres of the laſt night, and
thoſe of this morning very tedious,
though I ſpent them not idly, but lying
awake I imployed a good part thereof in
ruminating upon our yeſterdayes
ſes, weighing the reaſons alledged by both parties, in favour of
the two contrary Hypotheſes, that of Ariſtotle and Ptolomy, and
this of Ariſtarchus, and Copernicus. And really methinks, that
which ever of theſe parties have been deceived, they are worthy of
excuſe, ſo ſpecious and valid in appearance are the reaſons that
may have perſwaded them either way; though nevertheleſſe we
your coming, that I might hear the novel
conceits touching the annual
on of this our Globe, hath made me
think the houres of the laſt night, and
thoſe of this morning very tedious,
though I ſpent them not idly, but lying
awake I imployed a good part thereof in
ruminating upon our yeſterdayes
ſes, weighing the reaſons alledged by both parties, in favour of
the two contrary Hypotheſes, that of Ariſtotle and Ptolomy, and
this of Ariſtarchus, and Copernicus. And really methinks, that
which ever of theſe parties have been deceived, they are worthy of
excuſe, ſo ſpecious and valid in appearance are the reaſons that
may have perſwaded them either way; though nevertheleſſe we