gin to produce tho&longs;e difficulties that &longs;eem in his opinion, to thwart <lb/>
this new di&longs;po&longs;ition of the World.</s>

<s>SIMPL. </s><s>That di&longs;po&longs;ition is not new, but very old, and that <lb/>
you may &longs;ee it is &longs;o, <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> confuteth it; and his confutations <lb/>
are the&longs;e: “Fir&longs;t if the Earth moveth either in it felf about its <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg275"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
own Centre, or in an Excentrick Circle, it is nece&longs;&longs;ary that that <lb/>
&longs;ame motion be violent; for it is not its natural motion, for <lb/>
if it were, each of its parts would partake thereof; but each <lb/>
of them moveth in a right line towards its Centre. </s><s>It being <lb/>
therefore violent and pteternatural, it could never be perpetu <lb/>
al: But the order of the World is perpetual. </s><s>Therefore, <emph type="italics"/>&c.<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
Secondly, all the other moveables that move circularly, &longs;eem <lb/>
to ^{*} &longs;tay behind, and to move with more than one motion, the <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg276"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Primum Mobile<emph.end type="italics"/> excepted: Whence it would be nece&longs;&longs;ary that <lb/>
the Earth al&longs;o do move with two motions; and if that &longs;hould <lb/>
be &longs;o, it would inevitably follow, that mutations &longs;hould be <lb/>
made in the Fixed Stars, the which none do perceive; nay <lb/>
without any variation, the &longs;ame Stars alwayes ri&longs;e from towards <lb/>
the &longs;ame places, and in the &longs;ame places do &longs;et. </s><s>Thirdly, the mo <lb/>
tion of the parts is the &longs;ame with that of the whole, and natural <lb/>
ly tendeth towards the Centre of the Univer&longs;e; and for the &longs;ame <lb/>
cau&longs;e re&longs;t, being arrived thither. </s><s>He thereupon moves the que <lb/>
&longs;tion whether the motion of the parts hath a tendency to the <lb/>
centre of the Univer&longs;e, or to the centre of the Earth; and conclu <lb/>
deth that it goeth by proper in&longs;tinct to the centre of the Univer&longs;e, <lb/>
and <emph type="italics"/>per accidence<emph.end type="italics"/> to that of the Earth; of which point we largely <lb/>
di&longs;cour&longs;ed ye&longs;terday. </s><s>He la&longs;tly confirmeth the &longs;ame with a fourth <lb/>
argument taken from the experiment of grave bodies, which fal <lb/>
ing from on high, de&longs;cend perpendicularly unto the Earths&longs;urface; <lb/>
and in the &longs;ame manner <emph type="italics"/>Projections<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;hot perpendicularly upwards, <lb/>
do by the &longs;ame lines return perpendicularly down again, though <lb/>
they were &longs;hot to a very great height. </s><s>All which arguments nece&longs; <lb/>
&longs;arily prove their motion to be towards the Centre of the Earth, <lb/>
which without moving at all waits for, and receiveth them. </s><s>He <lb/>
intimateth in the la&longs;t place that the A&longs;tronomers alledg other <lb/>
rea&longs;ons in confirmation of the &longs;ame conclu&longs;ions, I mean of the <lb/>
Earths being in the Centre of the Univer&longs;e, and immoveable; <lb/>
and in&longs;tanceth onely in one of them, to wit, that all the <emph type="italics"/>Phæ <lb/>
nomena<emph.end type="italics"/> or appearances that are &longs;een in the motions of the Stars, <lb/>
perfectly agree with the po&longs;ition of the Earth in the Centre; <lb/>
which would not be &longs;o, were the Earth &longs;eated otherwi&longs;e. <lb/>
</s><s>The re&longs;t produced by <emph type="italics"/>Ptolomy<emph.end type="italics"/> and the other A&longs;tronomers, I can <lb/>
give you now if you plea&longs;e, or after you have &longs;poken what you <lb/>
have to &longs;ay in an&longs;wer to the&longs;e of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle.”<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s><margin.target id="marg275"></margin.target>Ari&longs;totles <emph type="italics"/>Ar <lb/>
guments for the <lb/>
Earths quie&longs;&longs;ence.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s><margin.target id="marg276"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>Re&longs;tino indietzo,<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
which is meant <lb/>
here of that moti <lb/>
on which a bowl <lb/>
makes when its <lb/>
born by its by as to <lb/>
one &longs;ide or other, <lb/>
and &longs;o hindered in <lb/>
its direct motion.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>The arguments which are brought upon this occa&longs;ion