Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              Now this acceleration of motion is never made, but when the
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              moveable in moving acquireth it; nor is its acquiſt other than an
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              approaching to the place deſired, to wit, whither its natural
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              clination attracts it, and thither it tendeth by the ſhorteſt way;
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              namely, by a right line. </s>
              <s>We may upon good grounds therefore
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              ſay, That Nature, to confer upon a moveable firſt conſtituted in
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              reſt a determinate velocity, uſeth to make it move according to
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              a certain time and ſpace with a right motion. </s>
              <s>This preſuppoſed,
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              let us imagine God to have created the Orb
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              v. </s>
              <s>g.
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              of
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              Jupiter,
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              on
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              which he had determined to confer ſuch a certain velocity, which
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              it ought afterwards to retain perpetually uniform; we may with
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              Plato
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              ſay, that he gave it at the beginning a right and accelerate
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              motion, and that it afterwards being arrived to that intended
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              gree of velocity, he converted its right, into a circular motion,
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              the velocity of which came afterwards naturally to be uniform.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              Right motion by
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              nature infinite.
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              <s>
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              Motion by a right
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              line naturally
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              poſſible.
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              <s>
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              Nature attempts
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              not things
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              ble to be effected.
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              <s>
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              Right motion might
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              perhaps be in the
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              firſt Chaos.
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              Right motion is
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              commodious to
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              range in order,
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              things ous of
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              der.
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              </s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              Mundane bodies
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              moved in the
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              ginning in a right
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              line, and
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              wards circularly?
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              <s>according to
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              Plato.</s>
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              * Thus doth he
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              vertly and
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              ly ſtile himſelfe
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              throughout this
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              work.</s>
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              <s>
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              A moveable
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              ing in a ſtate of
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              reſt, ſhall not move
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              unleſs it have an
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              inclination to ſome
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              particular place.
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              </s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              The moveable
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              celerates its
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              on, going towards
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              the place whither
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              it hath an
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              tion.
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              </s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              The moveable
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              ſing from reſt,
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              eth thorow all the
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              degrees of tardity.
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              </s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              Reſt the inſinioe
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              degree of tardity.
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              <s>
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              The moveable doth
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              not accelerate, ſave
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              only as it
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              eth nearer to its
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              term.
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              </s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              Nature, to
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              duce in the
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              able a certain
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              gree of velocity,
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              made it move in a
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              right line.
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              </s>
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              <s>
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              Vniform velocity
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              convenient to the
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              circular motion.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I hearken to this Diſcourſe with great delight; and I
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              believe the content I take therein will be greater, when you have
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              ſatisfied me in a doubt: that is, (which I do not very well
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              prehend) how it of neceſſity enſues, that a moveable departing
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              from its reſt, and entring into a motion to which it had a natural
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              inclination, it paſſeth thorow all the precedent degrees oſ tardity,
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              comprehended between any aſſigned degree of velocity, and the
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              ſtate of reſt, which degrees are infinite? </s>
              <s>ſo that Nature was not
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              able to confer them upon the body of
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              Jupiter,
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              his circular
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              on being inſtantly created with ſuch and ſuch
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              </s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              Betwixt reſt, and
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              any aſſigned degree
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              of velocity, infinite
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              degrees of leſs
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              locity interpoſe.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              Nature doth not
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              immediately
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              fer a determinate
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              degree of velocity,
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              howbeit ſhe could.
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              </s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I neither did, nor dare ſay, that it was impoſſible for
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              God or Nature to confer that velocity which you ſpeak of,
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              diately; but this I ſay, that
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              de facto
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              ſhe did not doit; ſo that the
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              doing it would be a work extra-natural, and by confequence
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              raculous.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Then you believe, that a ſtone leaving its reſt, and
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              tring into its natural motion towards the centre of the Earth,
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              ſeth thorow all the degrees of tardity inferiour to any degree of
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              velocity?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I do believe it, nay am certain of it; and ſo certain,
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              that I am able to make you alſo very well ſatisfied with the truth
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              thereof.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Though by all this daies diſcourſe I ſhould gain no
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              more but ſuch a knowledge, I ſhould think my time very well
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              beſtowed.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>By what I collect from our diſcourſe, a great part of
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              your ſcruple lieth in that it ſhould in a time, and that very ſhort,
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              paſs thorow thoſe infinite degrees of tardity precedent to any
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              locity, acquired by the moveable in that time: and therefore
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              fore we go any farther, I will ſeek to remove this difficulty, which </s>
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