Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              judicious diſcovering of a moſt lovely
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              Statua
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              in a piece of Marble,
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              hath ſublimated the wit of
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              Buonarruotti
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              far above the vulgar wits
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              of other men? </s>
              <s>And yet this work is onely the imitation of a
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              meer aptitude and diſpoſition of exteriour and ſuperficial
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              bers of an immoveable man; but what is it in compariſon of a
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              man made by nature, compoſed of as many exteriour and
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              riour members, of ſo many muſcles, tendons, nerves, bones,
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              which ſerve to ſo many and ſundry motions? </s>
              <s>but what ſhall we
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              ſay of the ſenſes, and of the powers of the ſoul, and laſtly, of
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              the underſtanding? </s>
              <s>May we not ſay, and that with reaſon, that
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              the ſtructure of a Statue fals far ſhort of the formation of a living
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              man, yea more of a contemptible worm?</s>
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              Buonarruotti,
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              a
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              ſtatuary of
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              rable ingenuity.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And what difference think you, was there betwixt the
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              Dove of
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              Architas,
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              and one made by Nature?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Either I am none of theſe knowing men, or elſe
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              there is a manifeſt contradiction in this your diſcourſe. </s>
              <s>You
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              count underſtanding amongſt the greateſt (if you make it not the
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              chief of the)
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              Encomiums
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              aſcribed to man made by Nature, and
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              a little before you ſaid with
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              Socrates,
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              that he had no knowledg at
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              all; therefore you muſt ſay, that neither did Nature underſtand
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              how to make an underſtanding that underſtandeth.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You argue very cunningly, but to reply to your
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              ction I muſt have recourſe to a Philoſophical diſtinction, and ſay
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              that the underſtanding is to be taken too ways, that is
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              intenſivè,
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              or
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              extenſivè
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              ; and that
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              extenſive,
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              that is, as to the multitude of
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              ligibles, which are infinite, the underſtanding of man is as
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              thing, though he ſhould underſtand a thouſand propoſitions; for
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              that a thouſand, in reſpect of infinity is but as a cypher: but taking
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              the underſtanding
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              intenſive,
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              (in as much as that term imports)
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              tenſively, that is, perfectly ſome propoſitions, I ſay, that humane
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              dom underſtandeth ſome propoſitions ſo perfectly, and is as
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              lutely certain thereof, as Nature her ſelf; and ſuch are the pure
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              Mathematical ſciences, to wit, Geometry and Arithmetick: in which
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              Divine Wiſdom knows infinite more propoſitions, becauſe it knows
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              them all; but I believe that the knowledge of thoſe few
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              hended by humane underſtanding, equalleth the divine, as to the
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              certainty
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              objectivè,
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              for that it arriveth to comprehend the
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              ſity thereof, than which there can be no greater certainty.</s>
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              Man
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              eth very well
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              tenſivè,
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              but little
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              extenſivè.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>This ſeemeth to me a very bold and raſh expreſſion.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Theſe are common notions, and far from all umbrage
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              of temerity, or boldneſs, and detract not in the leaſt from the
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              jeſty of divine wiſdom; as it nothing diminiſheth the omnipotence
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              thereof to ſay, that God cannot make what is once done, to be
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              done: but I doubt,
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              Simplicius,
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              that your ſcruple ariſeth from an
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              pinion you have, that my words are ſomewhat equivocal; </s>
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