Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              profitable to the publick, to build a great part of their eſteem
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              and reputation on the credit of
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              Ariſtotle
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              he is much puzzled and
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              perplexed: and methinks I hear him ſay, To whom then ſhould
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              we repair for the deciſion of our controverſies, if
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              Ariſtotle
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              were
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              removed from the chair? </s>
              <s>What other Author ſhould we follow
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              in the Schools, Academies and Studies? </s>
              <s>What Philoſopher hath
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              writ all the parts of Natural Philoſophy, and that ſo methodically
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              without omitting ſo much as one ſingle concluſion? </s>
              <s>Shall we then
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              overthrow that Fabrick under which ſo many paſſengers find
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              ſhelter? </s>
              <s>Shall we deſtroy that
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              Aſylum,
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              that
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              Prytaneum,
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              in ſo many Students meet with commodious harbour, where
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              without expoſing themſelves to the injuries of the air, with the
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              onely turning over of a few leaves, one may learn all the
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              crets of Nature? </s>
              <s>Shall we diſmantle that fort in which we are
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              ſafe from all hoſtile aſſaults? </s>
              <s>But I pitie him no more than I do
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              that Gentleman who with great expence of time and treaſure,
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              and the help of many hundred artiſts, erects a very
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              ous Pallace, and afterwards beholds it ready to fall, by reaſon
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              of the bad foundation; but being extremely unwilling to ſee
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              the Walls ſtript which are adorned with ſo many beautifull
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              Pictures; or to ſuffer the columns to fall, that uphold the
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              ly Galleries; or the gilded roofs, chimney-pieces, the freizes,
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              the corniſhes of marble, with ſo much coſt erected, to be
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              ned; goeth about with girders, props, ſhoars, butteraſſes, to
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              vent their ſubverſion.</s>
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              The Declamation
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              of
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              Simplicius.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But alaſs,
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              Simplicius
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              as yet fears no ſuch fall, and
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              I would undertake to ſecure him from that miſchief at a far
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              leſs charge. </s>
              <s>There is no danger that ſo great a multitude of
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              ſubtle and wiſe Philoſophers, ſhould ſuffer themſelves to be
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              Hector'd
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              by one or two, who make a little bluſtering; nay,
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              they will rather, without ever turning the points of their pens
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              againſt them, by their ſilence onely render them the object of
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              univerſal ſcorn and contempt. </s>
              <s>It is a fond conceit for any one
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              to think to introduce new Philoſophy, by reproving this or that
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              Author: it will be firſt neceſſary to new-mold the brains of
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              men, and make them apt to diſtinguiſh truth from falſhood. </s>
              <s>A
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              thing which onely God can do. </s>
              <s>But from one diſcourſe to another
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              whither are we ſtray'd? </s>
              <s>your memory muſt help to guide me into
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              the way again.</s>
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              Peripatetick
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              loſophy
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              able.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I remember very well where we left. </s>
              <s>We were
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              upon the anſwer of
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              Anti-Tycho,
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              to the objections againſt the
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              immutability of the Heavens, among which you inſerted this
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              of the Solar fpots, not ſpoke of by him; and I believe you
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              intended to examine his anſwer to the inſtance of the New
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              Stars.</s>
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