<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>This is proved by <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> in the &longs;ame place, when he
<lb/> &longs;aith, that the natural motion of the parts is the right motion
<lb/> downwards to the centre of the Univer&longs;e; &longs;o that the circular
<lb/> motion cannot naturally agree therewith.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>But do not you &longs;ee, that tho&longs;e very words carry in them
<lb/> a confutation of this &longs;olution?</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>Doth not he &longs;ay that the circular motion of the Earth
<lb/> would be violent? </s><s>and therefore not eternal? </s><s>and that this is ab­
<lb/> &longs;urd, for that the order of the World is eternal?</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>But if that which is violent cannot be eternal, then by
<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg298"></arrow.to.target>
<lb/> conver&longs;ion, that which cannot be eternal, cannot be natural: but
<lb/> the motion of the Earth downwards cannot be otherwi&longs;e eternal;
<lb/> therefore much le&longs;&longs;e can it be natural: nor can any other motion
<lb/> be natural to it, &longs;ave onely that which is eternal. </s><s>But if we make
<lb/> the Earth move with a circular motion, this may be eternal to it,
<lb/> and to its parts, and therefore natural.</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg298"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>That which is
<lb/> violent, cannot be
<lb/> eternal, and that
<lb/> which cannot be e­
<lb/> ternal, cannot be
<lb/> natural.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>The right motion is mo&longs;t natural to the parts of the
<lb/> Earth, and is to them eternal; nor &longs;hall it ever happen that they
<lb/> move not with a right motion; alwayes provided that the impe­
<lb/> diments be removed.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>You equivocate <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/>; and I will try to free you
<lb/> from the equivoke. </s><s>Tell me, therefore, do you think that a
<lb/> Ship which &longs;hould &longs;ail from the Strait of <emph type="italics"/>Gibralter<emph.end type="italics"/> towards <emph type="italics"/>Pale­
<lb/> &longs;tina<emph.end type="italics"/> can eternally move towards that Coa&longs;t? </s><s>keeping alwayes an
<lb/> equal cour&longs;e?</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>Becau&longs;e that Voyage is bounded and terminated be­
<lb/> tween the <emph type="italics"/>Herculean<emph.end type="italics"/> Pillars, and the &longs;hore of the <emph type="italics"/>Holy-land<emph.end type="italics"/>; and
<lb/> the di&longs;tance being limited, it is pa&longs;t in a finite time, unle&longs;&longs;e one by
<lb/> returning back &longs;hould with a contrary motion begin the &longs;ame Voy­
<lb/> age anew; but this would be an interrupted and no continued
<lb/> motion.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>Very true. </s><s>But the Navigation from the Strait of <emph type="italics"/>Ma­
<lb/> galanes<emph.end type="italics"/> by the <emph type="italics"/>Pacifick<emph.end type="italics"/> Ocean, the <emph type="italics"/>Moluccha's,<emph.end type="italics"/> the Cape <emph type="italics"/>di buona
<lb/> Speranza,<emph.end type="italics"/> and from thence by the &longs;ame Strait, and then again by
<lb/> the <emph type="italics"/>Pacifick<emph.end type="italics"/> Ocean, &c. </s><s>do you believe that it may be perpe­
<lb/> tuated?</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>It may; for this being a circumgyration, which re­
<lb/> turneth about its &longs;elf, with infinite replications, it may be perpetu­
<lb/> ated without any interruption.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>A Ship then may in this Voyage continue &longs;ailing eter­
<lb/> nally.</s></p>
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