Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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ciples of
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Ptolomy
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and
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Copernicus,
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and which of their opinions is
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the more probable and rational; that, which affirmeth the
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ſtance of the Cœleſtial bodies to be ingenerable, incorruptible,
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alterable, impaſſible, and in a word, exempt from all kind of change,
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ſave that of local, and therefore to be a
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fifth eſſence,
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quite different
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from this of our Elementary bodies, which are generable,
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tible, alterable,
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&c.
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or elſe the other, which taking away ſuch
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deformity from the parts of the World, holdeth the Earth to
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joy the ſame perfections as the other integral bodies of the
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verſe; and eſteemeth it a moveable and erratick Globe, no leſſe
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than the Moon,
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Jupiter, Venus,
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or any other Planet: And laſtly,
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maketh many particular parallels betwixt the Earth and Moon;
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and more with the Moon, than with any other Planet;
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ly by reaſon we have greater and more certain notice of it, as
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ſecond opinion to have more of probability with it than the firſt,
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I ſhould think it beſt in the ſubſequent diſcourſes to begin to
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mine whether the Earth be eſteemed immoveable, as it hath
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been till now believed by moſt men, or elſe moveable, as ſome
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ancient
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held, and others of not very receſſe times,
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were of opinion; and if it be moveable, to enquire of what
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kind its motion may be?</
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>I ſee already what way I am to take; but before we
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offer to proceed any farther, I am to ſay ſomething to you
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ing thoſe laſt words which you ſpake, how that the opinion which
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holds the Earth to be endued with the ſame conditions that the
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Cœleſtial bodies enjoy, ſeems to be more true than the
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ry; for that I affirmed no ſuch thing, nor would I have any of the
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Propoſitions in controverſie, be made to ſpeak to any definitive
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ſenſe: but I onely intended to produce on either part, thoſe
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ſons and anſwers, arguments and ſolutions, which have been
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therto thought upon by others, together with certain others,
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which I have ſtumbled upon in my long ſearching thereinto,
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wayes remitting the deciſion thereof to the judgment of others.</
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thing; and believing that others ought to judg as I did, I made
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that concluſion univerſal, which ſhould have been particular; and
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therefore confeſſe I have erred, and the rather, in that I know
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not what
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Simplicius
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his judgment is in this particular.</
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>I muſt confeſſe, that I have been ruminating all this
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night of what paſt yeſterday, and to ſay the truth, I meet
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in with many acute, new, aud plauſible notions; yet nevertheleſs,
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I find my ſelf over-perſwaded by the authority of ſo many great
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Writers,
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and in particular -------
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I ſee you ſhake your
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head
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Sagredus,
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and ſmile to your ſelf, as if I had uttered ſome
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great abſurdity.</
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