Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              the Solar ſpots? </s>
              <s>for as to the Comets, I for my own particular
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              little care to make them generated under or above the Moon;
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              nor did I ever put much ſtreſſe on the loquacity of
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              Tycho
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              ; nor
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              am I hard to believe that their matter is Elementary, and that
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              they may elevate (ſublimate) themſelves at their pleaſure,
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              out meeting with any obſtacle from the impenetrability of the
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              Peripatetick
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              Heaven, which I hold to be far more thin, yielding,
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              and ſubtil than our Air; and as to the calculations of the
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              rallaxes, firſt, the uncertainty whether Comets are ſubject to
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              ſuch accidents, and next, the inconſtancy of the obſervations,
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              upon which the computations are made, make me equally
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              pect both thoſe opinions: and the rather, for that I ſee him
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              you call
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              Anti-Tycho,
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              ſometimes ſtretch to his purpoſe, or elſe
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              reject thoſe obſervations which interfere with his deſign.</s>
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              Anti-Tycho
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              ſteth Aſtronomical
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              obſervations to his
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              own parpoſe.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>As to the new Stars,
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              Anti-Tycho
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              extricates himſelf
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              finely in three or four words; ſaying, That thoſe
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              dern new Stars are no certain parts of the Cœleſtial bodies, and
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              that the adverſaries, if they will prove alteration and
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              tion in thoſe ſuperior bodies, muſt ſhew ſome mutations that
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              have been made in the Stars deſcribed ſo many ages paſt, of
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              which there is no doubt but that they be Cœleſtial bodies,
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              which they can never be able to do: Next, as to thoſe
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              ters which ſome affirm, to generate and diſſipate in the face of
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              the Sun, he makes no mention thereof; wherefore I conclude,
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              that he believed them fictious, or the illuſions of the Tube, or
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              at moſt, ſome petty effecs cauſed by the Air, and in brief, any
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              thing rather than matters Cœleſtial.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But you,
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              Simplicius,
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              what anſwer could you give to
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              the oppoſition of theſe importunate ſpots which are ſtarted up
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              to diſturb the Heavens, and more than that, the
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              Peripatetick
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              Philoſophy? </s>
              <s>It cannot be but that you, who are ſo reſolute a
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              Champion of it, have found ſome reply or ſolution for the
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              ſame, of which you ought not to deprive us.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I have heard ſundry opinions about this particular.
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              <s>One ſaith: “They are Stars which in their proper Orbs, like as
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              Venus
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              and
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              Mervury,
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              revolve about the Sun, and in paſſing
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              der it, repreſent themſelves to us obſcure; and for that they
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              are many, they oft happen to aggregate their parts together,
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              and afterwards ſeperate again. </s>
              <s>Others believe them to be
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              aerial impreſſions; others, the illuſions of the chryſtals; and
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              thers, other things: But I incline to think, yea am verily
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              ſwaded, That they are an aggregate of many ſeveral opacous
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              bodies, as it were caſually concurrent among themſelves. </s>
              <s>And
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              therefore we often ſee, that in one of thoſe ſpots one may
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              number ten or more ſuch ſmall bodies, which are of </s>
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