Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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ruptible, aſwell as the Elementary, what will you ſay then?</
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Simplicius,
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are not theſe affections
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contrary to one another?</
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>SIMPL. Which?</
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ſible; generable, ingenerable; corruptible, incorruptible?</
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Or,
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Impatible.</
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that Cœleſtial Bodies are ingenerable and incorruptible; I prove
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that of neceſſity Cœleſtial Bodies muſt be generable and
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Sophiſm.
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Cœleſtial Bodies, for that they are ingenerable and incorruptible,
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have in Nature their contraries, which are thoſe Bodies that be
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generable and corruptible; but where there is contrariety, there
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is alſo generation and corruption; therefore Cœleſtial Bodies are
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generable and corruptible.</
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Cœlestial Bodies
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are generable and
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corruptible,
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cauſe they are
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generable and
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corruptible.
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of the
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who ſaid that all
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Cretans
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were lyars; but he as
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being a
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Cretan,
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had told a lye, in ſaying that the
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Cretans
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ars; it followed therefore, that the
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Cretans
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were no lyars, and
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conſequently that he, as being a
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Cretan,
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had ſpoke truth: And
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yet in ſaying the
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Cretans
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were lyars, he had ſaid true, and
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prehending himſelf as a
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Cretan,
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he muſt conſequently be a lyar.
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a man may dwell to eternity,
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and never come to any concluſion.</
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The forked
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you anſwer it, ſhewing the fallacie.</
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do you not in the firſt place ſee a manifeſt contradiction in it?
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Ergo,
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ſtial Bodies are generable and corruptible. </
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trariety is not betwixt the Cœleſtial Bodies, but betwixt the
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lements, which have the contrariety of the Motions,
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ſurſùm
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deorſùm,
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and of levity and gravity; But the Heavens which move
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circularly, to which motion no other motion is contrary, want
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contrariety, and therefore they are incorruptible.</
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Amongſt Cœleſtial
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Bodies there is no
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; this contrariety whereby
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you ſay ſome ſimple Bodies become corruptible, reſides it in the
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ſame Body which is corrupted, or elſe hath it relation to ſome
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