Galilei, Galileo
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The systems of the world
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1661
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to the Ocean: but thoſe Hills, being by ſome cauſe or other
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parated, and a way being opened to the Sea to break in, it made
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ſuch an inundation, that it gave occaſion to the calling of it ſince
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the Mid-land Sea: the greatneſs whereof conſidered, and the
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vers aſpect the ſurface of the Water and Earth then made, had it
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been beheld afar off, there is no doubt but ſo great a change
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might have been diſcerned by one that was then in the Moon;
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as alſo to us inhabitants of the Earth, the like alterations would
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be perceived in the Moon; but we find not in antiquity, that
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ver there was ſuch a thing ſeen; therefore we have no cauſe to
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ſay, that any of the Cœleſtial bodies are alterable,
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The Mediterr
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an Sea made by the
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ſeparation of
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>That ſo great alterations have hapned in the Moon, I
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dare not ſay, but for all that, I am not yet certain but that ſuch
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changes might occur; and becauſe ſuch a mutation could onely
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repreſent unto us ſome kind of variation between the more clear,
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and more obſcure parts of the Moon, I know not whether we
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have had on Earth obſervant Selenographers, who have for any
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conſiderable number of years, inſtructed us with ſo exact
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graphy, as that we ſhould confidently conclude, that there hath
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no ſuch change hapned in the face of the Moon; of the
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tion of which I find no more particular deſcription, than the
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ing of ſome, that it repreſents an humane face; of others, that
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it is like the muzzle of a lyon; and of others, that it is
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Cain
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with
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a bundle of thorns on his back: therefore, to ſay Heaven is
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alterable, becauſe that in the Moon, or other Cœleſtial bodies, no
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ſuch alterations are ſeen, as diſcover themſelves on Earth, is a bad
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illation, and concludeth nothing.</
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ment of
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Simplicius,
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running in my mind, which I would gladly
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have anſwered; therefore I demand of him, whether the Earth
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before the Mediterranian inundation was generable and
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ble, or elſe began then ſo to be?</
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fore that time; but that was ſo vaſt a mutation, that it might
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have been obſerved as far as the Moon.</
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before that Inundation, why may not the Moon be ſo
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wiſe without ſuch a change? </
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in the Moon, which importeth nothing on Earth?</
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a little altereth the Text of
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Ariſtotle,
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and the other
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patelicks,
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who ſay, they hold the Heavens unalterable, for that
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they ſee therein no one ſtar generate or corrupt, which is
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bly a leſs part of Heaven, than a City is of the Earth, and yet
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innumerable of theſe have been deſtroyed, ſo as that no mark of
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them hath remain'd.</
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