Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              think of accomodating the body of
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              Venus
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              in ſuch a manner that
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              its ſtate and motion may agree with what ſenſible experiments do
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              ſhew us; and therefore recall to mind that. </s>
              <s>which either by the
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              paſt diſcourſes, or your own obſervations you have learnt to
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              fal that ſtar, and afterwards aſſign unto it that ſtate which you
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              think agreeth with the ſame.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Suppoſing thoſe
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              Phænomena
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              expreſſed by you, and
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              which I have likewiſe read in the little treatiſe of Concluſions, to
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              be true, namely, that that ſtar never recedes from the Sun beyond
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              ſuch a determinate ſpace of 40 degrees or thereabouts, ſo as that
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              it never cometh either to appoſition with the Sun, or ſo much as
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              to quadrature, or yet to the ſextile aſpect; and more than that,
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              ſuppoſing that it ſheweth at one time almoſt 40 times greater than
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              at another; namely, very great, when being retrograde, it goeth to
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              the veſpertine conjnnction of the Sun, and very ſmall when with a </s>
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