Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              towards the Sun it is bounded by the lucid horns of the Moon,
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              and on the other part, its confining term is the obſcure tract of the
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              twilight; whoſe relation makes us think the candor of the Moons
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              Diſcus
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              to be ſo much the clearer; the which happens to be
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              fuſcated in the oppoſite part, by the greater clarity of the
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              cents; but if this modern Author had eſſaied to make an
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              poſition between the eye and the primary ſplendor, by the ridg of
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              ſome houſe, or ſome other ſcreen, ſo as to have left viſible only
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              the groſe of the Moon, the horns excluded, he might have ſeen
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              it all alike luminous.</s>
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              Its all one
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              ther opinions be
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              new to men, or men
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              new to opinions.
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              *
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              Conteſtare
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              falſly
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              rendered in the
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              Latine Tranſlation
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              content are.
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              The ſecondary
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              light of the Moon
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              appears in form of
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              a Ring, that is to
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              ſay, bright in the
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              extreme
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              rence, and not in
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              the midſt, and why.
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              The may to
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              ſerve the
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              ry light of the
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              Moon.
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              <s>SIMPL, I think, now I remember, that he writes of his
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              making uſe of ſuch another Artifice, to hide from us the falſe
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              Incidum.
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              <s>SALV. Oh! how is this (as I believed) inadvertency of his,
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              changed into a lie, bordering on raſhneſſe; for that every one
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              may frequently make proof of the contrary. </s>
              <s>That in the next
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              place, at the Suns Eclipſe, the Moons
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              Diſcus
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              is ſeen otherwayes
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              than by privation, I much doubt, and ſpecially when the
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              clipſe is not total, as thoſe muſt neceſſarily have been, which
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              were obſerved by the Author; but if alſo he ſhould have
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              red ſomewhat of light, this contradicts not, rather favoureth our
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              opinion; for that at ſuch a time, the whole Terreſtrial
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              ſphere illuminated by the Sun, is oppoſite to the Moon, ſo that
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              although the Moons ſhadow doth obſcure a part thereof, yet this
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              is very ſmall in compariſon of that which remains illuminated.
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              <s>That which he farther adds, that in this caſe, the part of the
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              limb, lying under the Sun, doth appear very lucid, but that
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              which lyeth beſides it, not ſo; and that to proceed from the
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              ming of the ſolar rayes directly through that part to the eye, but
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              not through this, is really one of thoſe fopperies, which diſco
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              ver the other fictions, of him which relates them: For if it be
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              requiſite to the making a ſecondary light viſible in the lunar
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              cus,
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              that the rayes of the Sun came directly through it to our
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              eyes, doth not this pitiful Philoſopher perceive, that we ſhould
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              ver ſee this ſame ſecondary light, ſave onely at the Eclipſe of the
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              Sun? </s>
              <s>And if a part onely of the Moon, far leſſe than half a
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              gree, by being remote from the Suns
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              Diſcus,
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              can deflect or
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              viate the rayes of the Sun, ſo that they arrive not at our eye;
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              what ſhall it do when it is diſtant twenty or thirty degrees, as it is
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              at its firſt apparition? </s>
              <s>and what courſe ſhall the rayes of the Sun
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              keep, which are to paſſe thorow the body of the Moon, that
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              they may find out our eye? </s>
              <s>This man doth go ſucceſſively
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              dering what things ought to be, that they may ſerve his purpoſe,
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              but doth not gradually proceed, accommodating his conceits to
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              the things, as really they are. </s>
              <s>As for inſtance, to make the light </s>
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