Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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              be) reconciled with it: And ſince that by it not only the Phœ­
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              nomena of all the Cœleſtial Bodies are moſt readily ſalved, but
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              alſo many Natural Reaſons are diſcovered, which could not o­
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              therwiſe, (but with extream difficulty) have been found out:
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              And ſince it, laſt of all, doth open a more eaſy way into Aſtro­
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              nomy and Phyloſophy, and rejecteth all thoſe ſuperfluous and
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              imaginary inventions produced by Aſtronomers to the end only,
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              that they might be able by them to render a reaſon of the ſo ma­
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              ny and ſo various Motions of the Cœleſtial Orbs.</s>
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              <s>And who knows, but that in that admirable compoſure of the
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              Candleſtick which was to be placed in the Tabernacle of God, he
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              might out of his extraordinary love to us have been pleaſed to
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              ſhaddow forth unto us the Syſteme of the Univerſe, and more
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              eſpecially of the Planets?
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              (a) Thou ſhalt make a Candleſtick of
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              pure Gold,
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              (ſaith the Text;)
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              of beaten work ſhall it be made:
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              his Shaft, and his Branches, his Bowls, his Knops, and his
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              Flowers (b) ſhall be of the ſame.
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              Here are five things deſcribed, the
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              Shaft of the Candleſtick in the midle, the Branches on the ſides,
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              the Bowls, the Knops and the Flowers. </s>
              <s>And ſince there can be no
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              more Shafts but one, the Branches are immediatly deſcribed in
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              theſe
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              (c)
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              words:
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              Six Branches ſhall come out of the ſides of it:
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              three Branches out of the one ſide, and three Branches out of the
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              other ſide:
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              Happly theſe fix Branches may point out to us ſix
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              (d)
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              Heavens, which are moved about the Sun in this order;
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              Saturn,
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              the ſloweſt and moſt remote of all, finiſheth his courſe about the
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              Sun thorrow all the twelve Signes of the Zodiack in thirty Years:
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              Jupiter,
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              being nearer than he, in twelve Years:
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              Mars,
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              being yet
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              nearer than him, in two Years: The
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              Earth,
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              which is ſtill nearer
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              than he, doth perform the ſame Revolution, together with
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              the Orbe of the
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              Moon,
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              in the ſpace of a Year, that is in Twelve
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              Months:
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              Venus,
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              which is yet nearer than all theſe, in
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              (e)
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              9 Months:
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              And laſt of all
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              Mercury,
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              whoſe vicinity to the Sun is the greateſt
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              of all, accompliſheth its whole converſion about the Sun in eighty
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              Dayes. </s>
              <s>After the deſcription of the ſix Branches, the ſacred
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              Text proceeds to the deſcription of the Bowls, the Knops, and
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              the Flowers, ſaying,
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              (f) Three Bowls made like unto Almonds,
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              with a Knop and a Flower in one Branch; and three Bowls made
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              like Almonds in the other Branch, with a Knop and a Flower: this
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              ſhall be the work of the ſix Branches that come out of the Shaft.
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              <s>And in the Candleſtick ſhall be four Bowls made like unto Al­
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              monds, with their Knops and their Flowers: there ſhall be a knop
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              under two branches of the ſame, and a Knop under two Branches
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              of the ſame, and a Knop under two Branches of the ſame; which
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              together are ſix Branches, proceeding from one Shaft.
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              The truth
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              is, the ſhallowneſſe of my underſtanding cannot fathome the </s>
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