Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              that had made the experiment: for whoever ſhall examine the
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              ſame, ſhall find the event ſucceed quite contrary to what hath
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              been written of it: that is, he ſhall ſee the ſtone fall at all times
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              in the ſame place of the Ship, whether it ſtand ſtill, or move with
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              any whatſoever velocity. </s>
              <s>So that the ſame holding true in the
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              Earth, as in the Ship, one cannot from the ſtones falling
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              dicularly at the foot of the Tower, conclude any thing touching
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              the motion or reſt of the Earth.</s>
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              The stone falling
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              from the Mast of
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              a ſhip lights in the
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              ſame place,
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              ther the ſhip doth
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              move or ly still.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>If you ſhould refer me to any other means than to
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              experience, I verily believe our Diſputations would not come to
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              an end in haſte; for this ſeemeth to me a thing ſo remote from all
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              humane reaſon, as that it leaveth not the leaſt place for credulity
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              or probability.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And yet it hath left place in me for both.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>How is this? </s>
              <s>You have not made an hundred, no nor
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              one proof thereof, and do you ſo confidently affirm it for true?
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              <s>I for my part will return to my incredulity, and to the confidence
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              I had that the Experiment hath been tried by the principal
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              thors who made uſe thereof, and that the event ſucceeded as they
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              affirm.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I am aſſured that the effect will enſue as I tell you; for ſo
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              it is neceſſary that it ſhould: and I farther add, that you know your
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              ſelf that it cannot fall out otherwiſe, however you feign or ſeem to
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              feign that you know it not. </s>
              <s>Yet I am ſo good at taming of wits,
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              that I will make you confeſs the ſame whether you will or no. </s>
              <s>But
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              Sagredus
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              ſtands very mute, and yet, if I miſtake not, I ſaw him
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              make an offer to ſpeak ſomewhat.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I had an intent to ſay ſomething, but to tell you true, I
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              know not what it was; for the curioſity that you have moved in me,
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              by promiſing that you would force
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              Simplicius
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              to diſcover the
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              knowledg which he would conceal from us, hath made me to
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              poſe all other thoughts: therefore I pray you to make good your
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              vaunt.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Provided that
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              Simplicius
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              do conſent to reply to what I
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              ſhall ask him, I will not fail to do it.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I will anſwer what I know, aſſured that I ſhall not be
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              much put to it, for that of thoſe things which I hold to be falſe,
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              I think nothing can be known, in regard that Science reſpecteth
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              truths and not falſhoods.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I deſire not that you ſhould ſay or reply, that you know
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              any thing, ſave that which you moſt aſſuredly know. </s>
              <s>Therefore
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              tell me; If you had here a flat ſuperficies as polite as a
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              glaſs, and of a ſubſtance as hard as ſteel, and that it were not
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              ralel to the Horizon, but ſomewhat inclining, and that upon it
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              you did put a Ball perfectly ſpherical, and of a ſubſtance grave and </s>
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