Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              with that which hath been ſaid already, namely, that in caſe the
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              Earth ſhould move, the ſhots made Eaſtward would prove too
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              high, &c. </s>
              <s>the ball, as it is probable, being to move along the
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              gent.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But if I ſhould ſay, that ſo it falleth out upon triall,
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              how would you cenſure me?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>It is neceſſary to proceed to experiments for the
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              ving of it.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But do you think, that there is to be found a Gunner ſo
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              skilful, as to hit the mark at every ſhoot, in a diſtance of
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              v.g.
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              five
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              hundred paces?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>No Sir; nay I believe that there is no one, how good a
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              marks-man ſoever that would promiſe to come within a pace of
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              the mark,</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>How can we then, with ſhots ſo uncertain, aſſure our
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              ſelves of that which is in diſpute?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>We may be aſſured thereof two wayes; one, by
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              king many ſhots; the other, becauſe in reſpect of the great
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              city of the Earths motion, the deviation from the mark would in
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              my opinion be very great.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Very great, that is more than one pace; in regard that
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              the varying ſo much, yea and more, is granted to happen ordinarily
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              even in the Earths mobility.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I verily believe the variation from the mark would be
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              more than
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              A Computation
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              how much the
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              ges of great ſhot
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              ought to vary from
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              the marke, the
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              Earths motion
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              ing granted.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Now I deſire that for our ſatisfaction we do make thus
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              in groſſe a ſlight calculation, if you conſent thereto, which will
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              ſtand us in ſtead likewiſe (if the computation ſucceed as I expect)
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              for a warning how we do in other occurrences ſuffer our ſelves, as
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              the ſaying is, to be taken with the enemies ſhouts, and ſurrender
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              up our belief to what ever firſt preſents it ſelf to our fancy. </s>
              <s>And
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              now to give all advantages to the
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              Peripateticks
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              and
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              Tychonicks,
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              let us ſuppoſe our ſelves to be under the Equinoctial, there to ſhoot
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              a piece of Ordinance point blank Eaſtwards at a mark five
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              dred paces off. </s>
              <s>Firſt, let us ſee thus (as I ſaid) in a level, what
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              time the ſhot after it is gone out of the Piece taketh to arrive at
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              the mark; which we know to be very little, and is certainly no
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              more than that wherein a travailer walketh two ſteps, which alſo
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              is leſs than the ſecond of a minute of an hour; for ſuppoſing
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              that the travailer walketh three miles in an hour, which are nine
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              thouſand paces, being that an hour containes three thouſand, ſix
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              hundred ſecond minutes, the travailer walketh two ſteps and an
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              half in a ſecond, a ſecond therefore is more than the time of the
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              balls motion. </s>
              <s>And for that the diurnal revolution is twenty four
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              hours, the Weſtern horizon riſeth fifteen degrees in an hour, that </s>
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