Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              I hope he will communicate Copies to all thoſe that are Students
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              of Natures Wonders.</s>
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              Sig. </s>
              <s>Cæſare
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              ſilius
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              obſerveth the
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              Meridian to be
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              moveable.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>This is not the firſt time that I have heard ſpeak of
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              the exquiſite Learning of this Gentleman, and of his ſhewing
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              himſelf a zealous Patron of all the Learned, and if this, or any
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              other of his Works ſhall come to appear in publique, we may be
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              aforehand aſſured, that they will be received, as things of great
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              value.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Now becauſe it is time to put an end to our
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              ſes, it remaineth, that I intreat you, that if, at more leaſure
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              ing over the things again that have been alledged you meet
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              with any doubts, or ſcruples not well reſolved, you will excuſe
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              my overſight, as well for the novelty of the Notion, as for the
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              weakneſſe of my wit, as alſo for the grandure of the Subject,
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              as alſo finally, becauſe I do not, nor have pretended to that
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              ſent from others, which I my ſelf do not give to this conceit,
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              which I could very eaſily grant to be a
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              Chymæra,
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              and a meer
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              paradox; and you
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              Sagredus,
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              although in the Diſcourſes paſt
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              you have many times, with great applauſe, declared, that you
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              were pleaſed with ſome of my conjectures, yet do I believe, that
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              that was in part more occaſioned by the novelty than by the
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              tainty of them, but much more by your courteſie, which did
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              think and deſire, by its aſſent, to procure me that content which
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              we naturally uſe to take in the approbation and applauſe of our
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              own matters: and as your civility hath obliged me to you; ſo
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              am I alſo pleaſed with the ingenuity of
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              Simplicius.
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              Nay, his
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              conſtancy in maintaining the Doctrine of his Maſter, with ſo
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              much ſtrength & undauntedneſs, hath made me much to love him.
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              <s>And as I am to give you thanks,
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              Sagredus,
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              for your courteous
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              fection; ſo of
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              Simplicius,
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              I ask pardon, if I have ſometimes
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              moved him with my too bold and reſolute ſpeaking: and let him
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              be aſſured that I have not done the ſame out of any inducement
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              of ſiniſter affection, but onely to give him occaſion to ſet before
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              us more lofty fancies that might make me the more knowing.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>There is no reaſon why you ſhould make all theſe
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              cuſes, that are needleſſe, and eſpecially to me, that being
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              ſtomed to be at Conferences and publique Diſputes, have an
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              hundred times ſeen the Diſputants not onely to grow hot and
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              gry at one another, but likewiſe to break forth into injurious
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              words, and ſometimes to come very neer to blows. </s>
              <s>As for the
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              paſt Diſcourſes, and particulatly in this laſt, of the reaſon of
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              the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, I do not, to ſpeak the truth,
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              very well apprehend the ſame, but by that ſlight
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              Idea,
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              what
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              ver it be, that I have formed thereof to my ſelf, I confeſſe that
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              your conceit ſeemeth to me far more ingenuous than any of all </s>
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