ty, I believe that you wonder at the paucity of tho&longs;e who are fol­
<lb/> lowers of that opinion would be much dimini&longs;hed. </s><s>But &longs;mall re­
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<lb/> gard in my judgement, ought to be had of &longs;uch thick &longs;culs, as think
<lb/> it a mo&longs;t convincing proof to confirm, and &longs;teadfa&longs;tly &longs;ettle them
<lb/> in the belief of the earths immobility, to &longs;ee that if this day they
<lb/> cannot Dine at <emph type="italics"/>Con&longs;tantinople,<emph.end type="italics"/> nor Sup in <emph type="italics"/>Jappan,<emph.end type="italics"/> that then the
<lb/> Earth as being a mo&longs;t grave body cannot clamber above the Sun,
<lb/> and then &longs;lide headlong down again; Of &longs;uch as the&longs;e I &longs;ay,
<lb/> who&longs;e number is infinite, we need not make any reckoning, nor
<lb/> need we to record their foolieries, or to &longs;trive to gain to our &longs;ide
<lb/> as our partakers in &longs;ubtil and &longs;ublime opinions, men in who&longs;e de­
<lb/> finition the kind onely is concerned, and the difference is wanting.
<lb/> </s><s>Moreover, what ground do you think you could be able to gain,
<lb/> with all the demon&longs;trations of the World upon brains &longs;o &longs;tupid,
<lb/> as are not able of them&longs;elves to know their down right follies? </s><s>But
<lb/> my admiration, <emph type="italics"/>Sagredus,<emph.end type="italics"/> is very different from yours, you won­
<lb/> der that &longs;o few are followers of the <emph type="italics"/>Pythagorean<emph.end type="italics"/> Opinion; and I
<lb/> am amazed how there could be any yet left till now that do em­
<lb/> brace and follow it: Nor can I &longs;ufficiently admire the eminencie of
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<lb/> tho&longs;e mens wits that have received and held it to be true, and with
<lb/> the &longs;prightline&longs;&longs;e of their judgements offered &longs;uch violence to their
<lb/> own &longs;ences, as that they have been able to prefer that which their
<lb/> rea&longs;on dictated to them, to that which &longs;en&longs;ible experiments re­
<lb/> pre&longs;ented mo&longs;t manife&longs;tly on the contrary. </s><s>That the rea&longs;ons again&longs;t
<lb/> the Diurnal virtiginous revolution of the Earth by you already ex­
<lb/> amined, do carry great probability with them, we have already
<lb/> &longs;een; as al&longs;o that the <emph type="italics"/>Ptolomaicks,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totelicks,<emph.end type="italics"/> with all their
<lb/> Sectators did receive them for true, is indeed a very great argument
<lb/> of their efficacie; but tho&longs;e experiments which apertly contradict
<lb/> the annual motion, are of yet &longs;o much more manife&longs;tly repugnant,
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<lb/> that (I &longs;ay it again) I cannot find any bounds for my admiration,
<lb/> how that rea&longs;on was able in <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;tarchus<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/> to com­
<lb/> mìt &longs;uch a rape upon their Sences, as in de&longs;pight thereof, to make
<lb/> her &longs;elf mi&longs;tre&longs;s of their credulity.</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg540"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Di&longs;cour&longs;es more
<lb/> than childi&longs;h, &longs;erve
<lb/> to keep fools in the
<lb/> opinion of the
<lb/> Earths &longs;tability.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg541"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>A declaration
<lb/> of the improbabi­
<lb/> lity of<emph.end type="italics"/> Copernicus
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>his opinion.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Are we then to have &longs;till more of the&longs;e &longs;trong oppo&longs;iti­
<lb/> ons again&longs;t this annual motion?</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>We are, and they be &longs;o evident and &longs;en&longs;ible, that if a
<lb/> &longs;ence more &longs;ublime and excellent than tho&longs;e common and vulgar,
<lb/> did not take part with rea&longs;on, I much fear, that I al&longs;o &longs;hould have
<lb/> been much more aver&longs;e to the <emph type="italics"/>Copernican<emph.end type="italics"/> Sy&longs;teem than I have been
<lb/> &longs;ince the time that a clearer lamp than ordinary hath enlightned
<lb/> me.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Now therefore <emph type="italics"/>Salviatus,<emph.end type="italics"/> let us come to joyn battail
<lb/> for every word that is &longs;pent on any thing el&longs;e, I take to be ca&longs;t a­
<lb/> way.</s></p>
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