Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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              why nothing of certainty can be evinced from the foreſaid Au­
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              thorities to the determining of Controverſies of this Nature; as
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              alſo with what Reaſon from this firſt
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              Axiome
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              the Objections of
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              the firſt and ſecond Claſſe are eaſily anſwered, as alſo any other
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              Authority of ſacred Scripture produced againſt the
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              Pythagorian
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              and
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              Copernican
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              Syſteme ſo long as by other proofs it is true.</s>
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              (a)
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              Eccleſ.
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              c. </s>
              <s>1. v.
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              <s>ult.
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              (b) Chap. </s>
              <s>3. v.
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              11.</s>
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              (c)
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              1 Cor.
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              c. </s>
              <s>4. v.
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              (d)
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              1 Cor.
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              c. </s>
              <s>13. v.
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              12.</s>
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              (e)
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              1 John
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              c. </s>
              <s>3. v.
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              2.</s>
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              (f)
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              1 Cor.
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              c. </s>
              <s>13. v.
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              12.</s>
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              (g)
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              Eccleſiaſt. </s>
              <s>15. 3</s>
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              (h)
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              1 Cor.
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              c. </s>
              <s>2. v.
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              (i)
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              Iſa.
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              c. </s>
              <s>48. v.
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              17.</s>
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              1 Theſſ. </s>
              <s>4.</s>
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              <s>And the Authorities of the ſecond Claſſe in particular by
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              this ſame Maxime,
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              Of the ordinary manner of apprehending
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              things as they appear to us, and after the common way of ſpeak­
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              ing,
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              may be thus reconciled and expounded; namely, Oftentimes
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              an Agent is commonly, and not improperly ſaid to move, (though
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              it have no motion) not becauſe it doth indeed move, but
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              by ex­
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              trinſick denomination,
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              becauſe receiving its influence and action at
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              the motion of the Subject; the Form and Quality infuſed to
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              the Subject by the ſaid Agent doth likewiſe move. </s>
              <s>As for ex­
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              ample, a Fire burning in a Chimney is an immoveable Agent,
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              before which a man oppreſt with cold ſits to warm himſelf who
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              being warmed on one ſide, turns the other to the Fire, that he
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              may be warmed on that ſide alſo, and ſo in like manner he holds
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              every part to the Fire ſucceſſively, till his whole body be warm­
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              ed. 'Tis clear, that although the Fire do not move, yet at the
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              Motion of the Subject, to wit the Man, who receiveth the heat
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              and action of the Fire, the Form and Quality of its Heat doth
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              move
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              ſingulatim, & per partes,
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              round about the mans body, and
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              alwayes ſeeketh out a new place: and ſo, though the Fire do
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              not move, yet by reaſon of its effect, it is ſaid to go round all
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              the parts of the Mans body, and to warm it, not indeed by a
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              true and real motion of the Fire it ſelf, ſince it is ſuppoſed (and
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              that not untruly) not to move, but by the motion to which the
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              Body is excited, out of a deſire of receiving the heat of the Fire
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              in each of its parts. </s>
              <s>The ſame may be applied to the Illumina­
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              tion impreſſed ſucceſſively on the parts of any Globe, which
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              moves Orbicularly at the aſpect of a ſhining immoveable
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              Light. </s>
              <s>And in the ſame manner may the Sun be ſaid to riſe and
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              ſet, and to move above the Earth, although in reality he doth
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              not move, nor ſuffer any mutation; that is to ſay, Inaſmuch as
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              his Light (which effect is the Form and Quality proceeding from
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              him, as the Agent, to the Earth as the Subject) doth ſenſibly
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              glide forwards, by reaſon of the Orbicular motion of the Earth;
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              and doth alwayes be take it ſelf to ſome new place of her ſurface;
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              upon which ground he is truly ſaid
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              (ſecundum vnlgarem ſermo­
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              nem)
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              to move above, and revolve about the Earth: Not that the
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              Sun doth move, (for by this Opinion we affirm the Earth to
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              move, that it may receive the Sun one while in one, another
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              while in another part of it) but that at the motion of the Earth </s>
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