Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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and you had no other object viſible and ſtable, wherewith to make
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compariſons to that, you could not perceive its motion?</
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it is at the higheſt, I muſt raiſe up my head, and as it deſcendeth
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I muſt hold it lower and lower, and in a word, muſt continually
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move either that, or my eyes, following the motion of the ſaid
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Whence the
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tion of a cadent
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dy is collected.
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the ſtone lyeth ſtill, when without moving your eye, you alwayes
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ſee it before you; and you know that it moveth, when for the
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keeping it in ſight, you muſt move the organ of ſight, the eye. </
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then when ever without moving your eye, you continually
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hold an object in the ſelf ſame aſpect, you do always judge it
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immoveable.</
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The motion of
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the eye argueth
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the motion of the
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object looked on.
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your eye on the point of the Sail-yard: Do you think, that
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cauſe the ſhip moveth very faſt, you muſt move your eye, to keep
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your ſight alwayes upon the point of the Sail-yard, and to
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low its motion?</
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all; and that not only in the ſight; but if I had aimed a Musket
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at it, I ſhould never have need, let the ſhip move how it will,
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to ſtir it an hairs breadth to keep it full upon the ſame.</
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conferreth on the Sail-yard, it conferreth alſo upon you, and upon
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your eye; ſo that you need not ſtir it a jot to behold the top of
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the Sail-yard: and conſequently, it will ſeem to you
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able. </
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Earth, and to the ſtone placed in the top of the Tower, in which
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you cannot diſcern any motion, becauſe that you have that
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tion which is neceſſary for the following of it, in common with it
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from the Earth; ſo that you need not move your eye. </
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gain there is conferred upon it the motion of deſcent, which is its
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particular motion, and not yours, and that it is intermixed with the
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circular, that part of the circular which is common to the ſtone,
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and to the eye, continueth to be imperceptible, and the right
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ly is perceived, for that to the perception of it, you muſt follow it
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with your eye, looking lower and lower. </
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ving of this Philoſopher, that I could adviſe him, that ſome time
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or other going by water, he would carry along with him a Veſſel
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of reaſonable depth full of water, and prepare a ball of wax, or
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other matter that would deſcend very ſlowly to the bottome, ſo
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that in a minute of an hour, it would ſcarce ſink a yard; and that
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rowing the boat as faſt as could be, ſo that in a minute of an hour </
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