Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              of the Sun capable to penetrate the ſubſtance of the Moon, he
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              makes her in part diaphanous, as is
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              v. </s>
              <s>g.
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              the tranſparence of a cloud,
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              or cryſtal: but I know not what he would think of ſuch a
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              ſparency, in caſe the ſolar rayes were to paſſe a depth of clouds
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              of above two thouſand miles; but let it be ſuppoſed that he
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              ſhould boldly anſwer, that might well be in the Cœleſtial, which
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              are quite other things from theſe our Elementary, impure, and
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              feculent bodies; and let us convict his error by ſuch wayes, as
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              admit him no reply, or (to ſay better) ſubter-fuge. </s>
              <s>If he will
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              maintain, that the ſubſtance of the Moon is diaphanous, he
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              muſt ſay that it is ſo, whileſt that the rayes of the Sun are to
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              netrate its whole profundity, that is, more than two thouſand
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              miles; but that if you oppoſe unto them onely one mile, or
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              leſſe, they ſhould no more penetrate that, than they penetrate
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              one of our mountains.</s>
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              The Moons
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              cus
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              in a ſolar
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              clipſe can be ſeen
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              onely by privation.
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              The Author of the
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              Book of
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              ons, accommodates
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              the things to his
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              purpoſes, and not
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              his purpoſes to the
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              things.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>You put me in mind of a man, who would have ſold
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              me a ſecret how to correſpond, by means of a certain ſympathy of
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              magnetick needles, with one, that ſhould be two or three
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              ſand miles diſtant; and I telling him, that I would willingly buy
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              the ſame, but that I deſired firſt to ſee the experiment thereof,
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              and that it did ſuffice me to make it, I being in one Chamber, and
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              he in the next, he anſwered me, that in ſo ſmall a diſtance one
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              could not ſo well perceive the operation; whereupon I turn'd him
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              going, telling him, that I had no mind, at that time, to take a
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              journey unto
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              Grand Cairo,
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              or to
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              Muſcovy,
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              to make the
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              ment; but that, if he would go himſelf, I would perform the
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              other part, ſtaying in
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              Venice.
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              But let us hear whither the
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              ction of our Author tendeth, and what neceſſity there is, that he
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              muſt grant the matter of the Moon to be moſt perforable by the
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              rayes of the Sun, in a depth of two thouſand miles, but more
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              opacous than one of our mountains, in a thickneſſe of one mile
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              onely.</s>
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              A jeſt put upon one
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              that would ſell a
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              certain ſecret for
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              holding
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              dency with a perſon
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              a thouſand miles
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              off
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The very mountains of the Moon themſelves are a
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              proof thereof, which percuſſed on one ſide of the Sun, do caſt
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              on the contrary ſide very dark ſhadows, terminate, and more
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              ſtinct by much, than the ſhadows of ours; but had theſe
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              tains been diaphanous, we could never have come to the
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              ledg of any unevenneſſe in the ſuperficies of the Moon, nor have
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              ſeen thoſe luminous montuoſities diſtinguiſhed by the terms which
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              ſeparate the lucid parts from the dark: much leſſe, ſhould we ſee
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              this ſame term ſo diſtinct, if it were true, that the Suns light did
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              penetrate the whole thickneſſe of the Moon; yea rather,
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              ing to the Authors own words, we ſhould of neceſſity diſcern the
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              paſſage, and confine, between the part of the Sun ſeen, and the
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              part not ſeen, to be very confuſed, and mixt with light and </s>
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