Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              nor eſſaies to move whither it is impoſſible to arrive. </s>
              <s>And if any
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              one ſhould yet object, that albeit the right line, and
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              ly the motion by it is producible
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              in infinitum,
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              that is to ſay, is
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              terminate; yet nevertheleſs Nature, as one may ſay, arbitrarily
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              hath aſſigned them ſome terms, and given natural inſtincts to
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              its natural bodies to move unto the ſame; I will reply, that this
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              might perhaps be fabled to have come to paſs in the firſt Chaos,
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              where indiſtinct matters confuſedly and inordinately wandered;
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              to regulate which, Nature very appoſitely made uſe of right
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              tions, by which, like as the well-conſtituted, moving, diſdorder
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              themſelves, ſo were they which were before depravedly diſpoſed
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              by this motion ranged in order: but after their exquiſite
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              tion and collocation, it is impoſſible that there ſhould remain
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              tural inclinations in them of longer moving in a right motion,
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              from which now would enſue their removal from their proper and
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              natural place, that is to ſay, their diſordination; we may
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              fore ſay that the right motion ſerves to conduct the matter to erect
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              the work; but once erected, that it is to reſt immoveable, or if
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              moveable, to move it ſelf onely circularly. </s>
              <s>Unleſs we will ſay
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              with
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              Plato,
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              that theſe mundane bodies, after they had been made
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              and finiſhed, were for a certain time moved by their Maker, in a
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              right motion, but that after their attainment to certain and
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              terminate places, they were revolved one by one in Spheres,
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              ſing from the right to the circular motion, wherein they have
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              been ever ſince kept and maintained. </s>
              <s>A ſublime conceipt, and
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              worthy indeed of
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              Plato
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              : upon which, I remember to have heard
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              our common friend the ^{*}
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              Lyncean Academick
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              diſcourſe in this
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              ner, if I have not forgot it. </s>
              <s>Every body for any reaſon
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              ted in a ſtate of reſt, but which is by nature moveable, being ſet
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              at liberty doth move; provided withal, that it have an
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              tion to ſome particular place; for ſhould it ſtand indifferently
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              fected to all, it would remain in its reſt, not having greater
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              ducement to move one way than another. </s>
              <s>From the having of
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              this inclination neceſſarily proceeds, that it in its moving ſhall
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              tinually increaſe its acceleration, and beginning with a moſt ſlow
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              motion, it ſhall not acquire any degree of velocity, before it
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              ſhall have paſſed thorow all the degrees of leſs velocity, or
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              ter tardity: for paſſing from the ſtate of quiet (which is the
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              finite degree of tardity of motion) there is no reaſon by which
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              it ſhould enter into ſuch a determinate degree of velocity, before
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              it ſhall have entred into a leſs, and into yet a leſs, before it entred
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              into that: but rather it ſtands with reaſon, to paſs firſt by thoſe
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              degrees neareſt to that from which it departed, and from thoſe to
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              the more remote; but the degree from whence the moveable
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              began to move, is that of extreme tardity, namely of reſt. </s>
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