Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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With all I conceived it very proper to expreſs theſe conceits by way of Dialogue, which, as not being
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bound up to the riggid obſervance of Mathematical Laws, gives place alſo to Digreſsions that are
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ſometimes no leſs curious than the principal Argument.
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I chanced to be ſeveral years ſince, at ſeveral times, in the Stupendious Citty of
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Venice,
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converſed with
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Signore Giovan Franceſco Sagredo
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Florence
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at the ſame time
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Signore Filippo Salviati,
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whoſe leaſt glory was the
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nence of his Blood, and Magnificence of his Eſtate: a ſublime Wit that fed not more hungerly upon
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any pleaſure than on elevated Speculations. </
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matters before a certain Peripatetick Philoſopher who ſeemed to have no geater obſtacle in
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ing of the Truth, than the Fame he had acquired by Ariſtotelical Interpretations.
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Now, ſeeing that inexorable Death hath deprived
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Florence
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of thoſe two great Lights in
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the very Meridian of their years, I did reſolve, as far as my poor ability would permit, to perpetuate
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their lives to their honour in theſe leaves, bringing them in as Interlocutors in the preſent Controverſy.
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mentaries of
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Simplicius,
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I thought fit, without mentioning his own Name, to leave that of the Author
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blick Monument of my never dying Love; and let the remembr ance of their Eloquence aſsiſt me in
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delivering to Poſterity the Conſider ations that I have promiſed.
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There caſually happened (as was uſuall) ſeveral diſcourſes at times between theſe Gentlemen, the
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which had rather inflamed than ſatisfied in their wits the thirſt they had to be learning; whereupon
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they took a diſcreet reſolution to meet together for certain dayes, in which all other buſineſs ſet aſide,
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they might betake themſelves more methodically to contemplate the Wonders of God in Heaven, and in
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the Earth: the place appointed for their meeting being in the Palace of the Noble
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Sagredo,
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after the
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due, but very ſhort complements
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; Signore Salviati
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began in this manner.
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