Foscarini, Paolo Antonio
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An epistle to fantoni
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1661
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Faith is more
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>But yet becauſe the common Syſteme of the World deviſed by
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Ptolomy
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hath hitherto ſatisfied none of the Learned, hereupon a
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ſuſpicion is riſen up amongſt all, even
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Ptolemy's
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followers them
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ſelves, that there muſt be ſome other Syſteme, which is more true
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than this of
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Ptolemy
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; For although the
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Phœnomena
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of Celeſtial
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Bodys may ſeem to be generally reſolved by this Hypotheſis, yet
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they are found to be involved with many difficulties, and refer
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red to many devices; as namely of Orbes of ſundry Forms and
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Figures, Epicicles, Equations, Differences, Excentricks, andinnu
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merable ſuch like fancies and Chymæra's which ſavour of the
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Ens Rationis
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of Logicians, rather than of any
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Realem Eſſentiam.
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Of which kinde is that of the
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Rapid Motion,
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than which I finde
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not any thing that can be more weakly grounded, and more eaſi
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ly controverted and diſproved: And ſuch is that conceit of the
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^{*} Heaven void of Stars, moving the inferior Heavens or Orbes:
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All which are introduced upon occaſion of the variety of the
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Motions of Celeſtial Bodyes, which ſeemed impoſſible, by any
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other way, to be reduced to any certain and determinate Rule.
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that in deſcribing the Worlds Syſteme, they cannot as yet diſco
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ver, or teach the true Hypotheſis thereof: But that their endea
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vours are onely to finde out, amongſt many things, what is moſt
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agreeable with truth, and may, upon better and more accomo
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date Reaſons, anſwer the Celeſtial
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Phœnomena.
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* Or
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Primum
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Mobile.
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out, by help of which, many remarkable things in the Heavens,
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moſt worthy to be known, and till then unthought of, were diſ
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covered by manifeſt ſenſation; as for inſtance, That the Moon is
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Mountainous;
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Venus
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and
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Saturn
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Tricorporeal; and
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Jupiter
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Quadricorporeal: Likewiſe that in the
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Via Lactea,
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Ple
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iades,
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and in the Stars called
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Nobuloſœ
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there are many Stars, and
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thoſe of the greateſt Magnitude which are by turns adjacent to
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one another; and in the end it hath diſcovered to us, new fixed
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Stars, new planets, and new Worlds. </
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ment it appears very probable, that
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Venus
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Mercury
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do not
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move properly about the Earth, but rather about the Sun; and
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that the Moon alone moveth about the Earth. </
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can be inferred from hence, but that the Sun doth ſtand immo
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vable in the Centre, and that the Earth, with the other Celeſtial
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Orbes, is circumvolved about it? </
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other Reaſons it appears, That the Opinion of
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Pythagor as
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Copernicus
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doth not diſagree with Aſtronomical and Coſmogra
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phical Principles; yea, that it carryeth with it a great likelihood
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and probability of Truth: Whereas amongſt the ſo many ſeve
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