Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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1others, ſuch as were thoſe of Plato, Calippus, Eudoxus; and ſince

them
of Averroe, ^{*} Cardanus, Fracaſtorius, and others both Anti­
ent
and Modern, there is not one found that is more facile, more
regularly
ahd determinately, accommodated to the Phœnomena
and
Motions of the Heavens, without Epicycles, Excentrix, Ho­
mocentricks
Deferents, and the ſupputation of the Rapid Motion.
And this Hypotheſis hath been aſſerted for true, not onely by
Pythagoras, and, after him, by Copernicus, but by many famous
men
, as namely, Heraclitus, and Ecphantus, Pythagoreans, all the
Diſciples
of that Sect, Miceta of Syracuſe, Martianus Capella, and
many
more.
Amongſt whom, thoſe (as we have ſaid) that
have
attempted the finding out of New Syſtemes (for they refu­
ſed
both this of Pythagoras, and that of Ptolemy) are numberleſs:
who
yet notwithſtanding allowed this Opinion of Pythagoras to
carry
with it much probability, and indirectly confirmed it; inaſ­
much
as that they rejected the common one as imperfect, defe­

ctive
, and attended with many contradictions and difficulties.
Amongſt theſe may be numbered Father ^{*} Clavius, a moſt learn­
ed
Jeſuite; who, although he refutes the Syſteme of Pythagoras,
yet
acknowledgeth the Levity of the common Syſteme, and he
ingeniouſly
confeſſeth, that for the removal of difficulties, in which
the
common Syſteme will not ſerve the turn, Aſtronomers are
forced
to enquire after another Syſteme, to the diſcovery of
which
, he doth very earneſtly exhort them.
* Cardan de re­
rum
variet.
Lib. 1.
Cap
. 1.
* P. Clavins in
ultima
ſuor.
Ope­
rum
editione.
Judicium populi nunquam contempſeris unus,
Ne nullis place as, dum vis contemnere multos.

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