applyed to the Sun, and to the Earth, &longs;o va&longs;t and famous bodies <lb/>
of the Univer&longs;e; and it being, moreover, impo&longs;&longs;ible, that one of <lb/>
two contradictory Propo&longs;itions, &longs;hould not be true, and the other <lb/>
fal&longs;e; and that for proof of the fal&longs;e one, any thing can be pro <lb/>
duced but fallacies; but the true one being per&longs;wadeable by all <lb/>
kind of concluding and demon&longs;trative arguments, why &longs;hould <lb/>
you think that he, of you two, who &longs;hall be &longs;o fortunate as to <lb/>
maintain the true Propo&longs;ition ought not to per&longs;wade me? </s><s>You <lb/>
mu&longs;t &longs;uppo&longs;e me to be of a &longs;tupid wit, perver&longs;e judgment, dull <lb/>
mind and intellect, and of a blind rea&longs;on, that I &longs;hould not be <lb/>
able to di&longs;tingui&longs;h light from darkne&longs;&longs;e, jewels from coals, or <lb/>
truth from fal&longs;hood.</s>

<s>SIMPL. </s><s>I tell you now, and have told you upon other <lb/>
occa&longs;ions, that the be&longs;t Ma&longs;ter to teach us how to di&longs;cern So <lb/>
phi&longs;mes, Paralogi&longs;mes, and other fallacies, was <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> who <lb/>
in this particular can never be deceived.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>You in&longs;i&longs;t upon <emph type="italics"/>Aristotle,<emph.end type="italics"/> who cannot &longs;peak. </s><s>Yet I <lb/>
tell you, that if <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> were here, he would either yield him <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg292"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
&longs;elf to be per&longs;waded by us, or refuting our arguments, convince <lb/>
us by better of his own. </s><s>And you your &longs;elf, when you heard the <lb/>
experiments of the Suns related, did you not acknowledg and <lb/>
admire them, and confe&longs;&longs;e them more concludent than tho&longs;e of <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle?<emph.end type="italics"/> Yet neverthele&longs;&longs;e I cannot perceive that <emph type="italics"/>Salviatus,<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
who hath produced them, examined them, and with exqui&longs;ite <lb/>
care &longs;can'd them, doth confe&longs;&longs;e him&longs;elf per&longs;waded by them; no <lb/>
nor by others of greater force, which he intimated that he was <lb/>
about to give us an account of. </s><s>And I know not on what grounds <lb/>
you &longs;hould cen&longs;ure Nature, as one that for many Ages hath <lb/>
been lazie, and forgetful to produce &longs;peculative <emph type="italics"/>wits<emph.end type="italics"/>; and <lb/>
that knoweth not how to make more &longs;uch, unle&longs;&longs;e they be &longs;uch <lb/>
kind of men as &longs;lavi&longs;hly giving up their judgments to <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> do <lb/>
under&longs;tand with his brain, and re&longs;ent with his &longs;en&longs;es. </s><s>But let us <lb/>
hear the re&longs;idue of tho&longs;e rea&longs;ons which favour his opinion, that <lb/>
we may thereupon proceed to &longs;peak to them; comparing and <lb/>
weighing them in the ballance of impartiality.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg292"></margin.target>Ari&longs;totle <emph type="italics"/>would <lb/>
either refute his <lb/>
adver&longs;aries argu <lb/>
ments, or would <lb/>
alter his opinion.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Before I proceed any farther, I mu&longs;t tell <emph type="italics"/>Sagredus,<emph.end type="italics"/> that <lb/>
in the&longs;e our Di&longs;putations, I per&longs;onate the <emph type="italics"/>Copernican,<emph.end type="italics"/>, and imi <lb/>
tate him, as if I were his <emph type="italics"/>Zany<emph.end type="italics"/>; but what hath been effected in <lb/>
my private thoughts by the&longs;e arguments which I &longs;eem to alledg in <lb/>
his favour, I would not have you to judg by what I &longs;ay, whil'&longs;t <lb/>
I am in the heat of acting my part in the Fable; but after I have <lb/>
laid by my di&longs;gui&longs;e, for you may chance to find me different <lb/>
from what you &longs;ee me upon the Stage. </s><s>Now let us go on.</s>

<s><emph type="italics"/>Ptolomy<emph.end type="italics"/> and his followers produce another experiment like to <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg293"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
that of the Projections, and it is of things that being &longs;eparated