<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>In my judgment this is found. </s><s>Make the Earth the
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Primum mobile,<emph.end type="italics"/> that is, make it turn round its own <emph type="italics"/>axis<emph.end type="italics"/> in twenty
<lb/> four hours, and towards the &longs;ame point with all the other Spheres;
<lb/> and without participating this &longs;ame motion to any other Planet or
<lb/> Star, all &longs;hall have their ri&longs;ings, &longs;ettings, and in a word, all their
<lb/> other appearances.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>The bu&longs;ine&longs;s is, to be able to make the Earth move
<lb/> without athou&longs;and inconveniences.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>All the inconveniences &longs;hall be removed as fa&longs;t as you
<lb/> propound them: and the things &longs;poken hitherto are onely the
<lb/> primary and more general inducements which give us to believe
<lb/> that the diurnal conver&longs;ion may not altogether without probabi­
<lb/> lity be applyed to the Earth, rather than to all the re&longs;t of the U­
<lb/> niver&longs;e: the which inducements I impo&longs;e not upon you as invio­
<lb/> lable Axioms, but as hints, which carry with them &longs;omewhat of
<lb/> likelihood. </s><s>And in regard I know very well, that one &longs;ole ex­
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<lb/> periment, or concludent demon&longs;tration, produced on the contrary
<lb/> part, &longs;ufficeth to batter to the ground the&longs;e and a thou&longs;and other
<lb/> probable Arguments; therefore it is not fit to &longs;tay here, but proceed
<lb/> forwards and hear what <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/> an&longs;wereth, and what greater
<lb/> probabilities, or &longs;tronger arguments he alledgeth on the contrary.</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg271"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>One &longs;ingle ex­
<lb/> periment, or &longs;ound
<lb/> demon&longs;tration bat­
<lb/> tereth down all ar­
<lb/> guments meerly
<lb/> probable.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>I will fir&longs;t &longs;ay &longs;omething in general upon all the&longs;e con­
<lb/> &longs;iderations together, and then I will de&longs;cend to &longs;ome particulars.
<lb/> </s><s>It &longs;eems that you univer&longs;ally bottom all you &longs;ay upon the greater
<lb/> &longs;implicity and facility of producing the &longs;ame effects, whil&longs;t you
<lb/> hold, that as to the cau&longs;ing of them, the motion of the Earth a­
<lb/> lone, &longs;erveth <emph type="italics"/>as well<emph.end type="italics"/> as that of all the re&longs;t of the World, the Earth
<lb/> deducted: but as to the operations, you e&longs;teem that much ea&longs;ier
<lb/> than this. </s><s>To which I reply, that I am al&longs;o of the &longs;ame opinion,
<lb/> &longs;o long as I regard my own not onely finite, but feeble power;
<lb/> but having a re&longs;pect to the &longs;trength of the <emph type="italics"/>Mover,<emph.end type="italics"/> which is in­
<lb/> finite, its no le&longs;&longs;e ea&longs;ie to move the Univer&longs;e, than the Earth,
<lb/> yea than a &longs;traw. </s><s>And if his power be infinite, why &longs;hould he not
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<lb/> rather exerci&longs;e a greater part thereof than a le&longs;&longs;e? </s><s>Therefore,
<lb/> I hold that your di&longs;cour&longs;e in general is not convincing.</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg272"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Of an infinite
<lb/> power one would
<lb/> think a greater
<lb/> part &longs;hould rather
<lb/> be imploy'd than a
<lb/> le&longs;&longs;e.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>If I had at any time &longs;aid, that the Univer&longs;e moved not
<lb/> for want of power in the <emph type="italics"/>Mover,<emph.end type="italics"/> I &longs;hould have erred, and your
<lb/> reproof would have been &longs;ea&longs;onable; and I grant you, that to
<lb/> an infinite power, it is as ea&longs;ie to move an hundred thou&longs;and, as
<lb/> one. </s><s>But that which I did &longs;ay, concerns not the Mover, but one­
<lb/> ly hath re&longs;pect to the Moveables; and in them, not onely to
<lb/> their re&longs;i&longs;tance, which doubtle&longs;&longs;e is le&longs;&longs;er in the Earth, than in
<lb/> the Univer&longs;e; but to the many other particulars, but even now
<lb/> con&longs;idered. </s><s>As to what you &longs;ay in the next place, that of an in­
<lb/> finite power it is better to exerci&longs;e a great part than a &longs;mall: I an­
