Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              and ſport with our Fancies) hath, I ſay, hath permitted that the
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              motions for every other reſpect, except to reſolve the ebbing and
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              flowing of the Sea, aſſigned long ſince to the earth, ſhould be found
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              now at laſt to anſwer exactly to the cauſe thereof; and, as it
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              were, with mutual a emulation, the ſaid ebbing and flowing
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              to appear in confirmation of the Terreſtrial motion: the
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              judices
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              whereof have hitherto been taken from the cœleſtial Phænomena,
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              in regard that of thoſe things that happen on Earth, not any one
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              was of force to prove one opinion more than another, as we
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              ready have at large proved, by ſhewing that all the terrene
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              rences upon which the ſtability of the Earth and mobility of the
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              Sun and Firmament is commonly inferred, are to ſeem to us
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              formed in the ſame manner, though we ſuppoſed the mobility of
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              the Earth, and the immobility of them. </s>
              <s>The Element of
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              ter onely, as being moſt vaſt, and which is not annexed and
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              catenated to the Terreſtrial Globe as all its other ſolid parts are;
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              yea, rather which by reaſon of its fluidity remaineth apart
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              ſui
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              juris,
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              and free, is to be ranked amongſt thoſe ſublunary things,
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              from which we may collect ſome hinte and intimation of what the
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              Earth doth in relation to motion and reſt. </s>
              <s>After I had many
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              and many a time examined with my ſelf the effects and accidents,
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              partly ſeen and partly underſtood from others, thar are to be
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              ſerved in the motions of waters: and moreover read and heard
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              the great vanities produced by many, as the cauſes of thoſe
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              dents, I have been induced upon no ſlight reaſons to omit theſe
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              two concluſions (having made withal the neceſſary
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              ſals) that in caſe the terreſtrial Globe be immoveable, the flux
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              and reflux of the Sea cannot be natural; and that, in caſe thoſe
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              motions be conferred upon the ſaid Globe, which have been long
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              ſince aſſigned to it, it is neceſſary that the Sea be ſubject to
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              bing and flowing, according to all that which we obſerve to
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              pen in the ſame.</s>
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              Nature in ſport
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              maketh the ebbing
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              and flowing of the
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              Sea, to approve the
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              Earths mobility.
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              The tide, and
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              mobility of the
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              Earth mutually
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              confirm each other
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              All terrene
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              fects, indifferently
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              confirm the motion
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              or reſt of the
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              Earth, except the
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              ebbing and flowing
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              of the Sea.
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              The firſt
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              ral concluſion of
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              the impoſſibility of
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              the ebbing and
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              flowing the
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              bility of the
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              ſtrial Globe being
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              granted.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>The Propoſition is very conſiderable, as well for it
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              ſelf as for what followeth upon the ſame by way of conſequence,
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              ſo that I ſhall the more intenſly hearken to the explanation and
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              confirmation of
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              The knowledge
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              of the offests
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              tributes to the
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              veſtigation of the
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              cauſes.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Becauſe in natural queſtions, of which number this
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              which we have in hand is one, the knowledge of the effects is a
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              means to guide us to the inveſtigation and diſcovery of the
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              ſes, and without which we ſhould walk in the dark, nay with
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              more uncertainty, for that we know not whither we would go,
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              whereas the blind, at leaſt, know where they deſire to arrive;
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              fore firſt of all it is neceſſary to know the effects whereof we
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              quire the cauſes: of which effects you,
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              Sagredus,
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              ought more
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              abundantly and more certainly to be informed than I am, </s>
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