<arrow.to.target n="marg82"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
quite differing there-from &longs;hould be thence produced; and if I <lb/>
fancy to my &longs;elf a body under one a&longs;pect, and by and by under <lb/>
another very different, I cannot think it impo&longs;&longs;ible but that it may <lb/>
happen by a &longs;imple tran&longs;po&longs;ition of parts, without corrupting or <lb/>
ingendring any thing a-new; for we &longs;ee &longs;uch kinds of Metamor <lb/>
pho&longs;es dayly: &longs;o that to return to my purpo&longs;e, I an&longs;wer you, <lb/>
that ina&longs;much as you go about to per&longs;wade me that the Earth can <lb/>
not move circularly by way of corruptibility and generability, <lb/>
you have undertook a much harder task than I, that with argu <lb/>
ments more difficult indeed, but no le&longs;s concluding, will prove <lb/>
the contrary.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg81"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Its ea&longs;ier to prove <lb/>
the Earth to move, <lb/>
than that corrupti <lb/>
on is made by con <lb/>
traries.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s><margin.target id="marg82"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Bare tran&longs;po&longs;ition <lb/>
of parts may repre <lb/>
&longs;ent bodies under <lb/>
diver&longs;e asp cts.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>Pardon me, <emph type="italics"/>Salviatus,<emph.end type="italics"/> if I interrupt your di&longs;cour&longs;e, <lb/>
which, as it delights me much, for that I al&longs;o am gravel'd with <lb/>
the &longs;ame doubts; &longs;o I fear that you can never conclude the &longs;ame, <lb/>
without altogether digre&longs;&longs;ing from your chief de&longs;ign: therefore <lb/>
if it be permitted to proceed in our fir&longs;t argument, I &longs;hould think <lb/>
that it were convenient to remit this que&longs;tion of generation and <lb/>
corruption to another di&longs;tinct and &longs;ingle conference; as al&longs;o, if <lb/>
it &longs;hall plea&longs;e you and <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> we may do by other particular <lb/>
que&longs;tions which may fall in the way of our di&longs;cour&longs;e; which I <lb/>
will keep in my mind to propo&longs;e, and exactly di&longs;cu&longs;s them &longs;ome <lb/>
other time. </s><s>Now as for the pre&longs;ent, &longs;ince you &longs;ay, that if <emph type="italics"/>Ari <lb/>
&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> deny circular motion to the Earth in common with other <lb/>
bodies C&oelig;le&longs;tial, it chence will follow, that the &longs;ame which be <lb/>
falleth the Earth, as to its being generable, alterable, <emph type="italics"/>&c.<emph.end type="italics"/> will <lb/>
hold al&longs;o of Heaven, let us enquire no further if there be &longs;uch <lb/>
things in nature, as generation and corruption, or not; but let <lb/>
us return to enquire what the Globe of the Earth doth.</s>

<s>SIMPL. </s><s>I cannot &longs;uffer my ears to hear it que&longs;tion'd, whether <lb/>
generation and corruption be in <emph type="italics"/>rerum naturà,<emph.end type="italics"/> it being a thing <lb/>
which we have continually before our eyes, and whereof <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg83"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
hath written two whole Books. </s><s>But if you go about to deny the <lb/>
Principles of Sciences, and que&longs;tion things mo&longs;t manife&longs;t, who <lb/>
knows not, but that you may prove what you will, and maintain <lb/>
any <emph type="italics"/>Paradox<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s><s>And if you do not dayly &longs;ee herbs, plants, ani <lb/>
mals to generate and corrupt, what is it that you do &longs;ee? </s><s>Al&longs;o, <lb/>
do you not continually behold contrarieties contend together, <lb/>
and the Earth change into Water, the Water turn to Air, the <lb/>
Air into Fire, and again the Air to conden&longs;e into Clouds, Rains, <lb/>
Hails and Storms?</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg83"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>By denying Prin <lb/>
ciples in the Scien <lb/>
ces, any Paradox <lb/>
may be maintain <lb/>
ed.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SAGR. Yes, we &longs;ee the&longs;e things indeed, and therefore will <lb/>
grant you the di&longs;cour&longs;e of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> as to this part of generation <lb/>
and corruption made by contraries; but if I &longs;hall conclude by <lb/>
virtue of the &longs;ame propo&longs;itions which are granted to <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle,<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
that the C&oelig;le&longs;tial bodies them&longs;elves are al&longs;o generable and cor