&longs;ition, not onely by refuting the Rea&longs;ons of <emph type="italics"/>Ptolomy<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;to<lb/>
tle,<emph.end type="italics"/> but by producing many on the contrary; and in particular, <lb/>
&longs;ome Phy&longs;ical pertaining to Natural Effects, the cau&longs;es of which <lb/>
perhaps can be by no other way a&longs;&longs;igned; and others A&longs;trono<lb/>
mical depending upon many circum&longs;tances and encounters of <lb/>
new Di&longs;coveries in Heaven, which manife&longs;tly confute the Ptolo<lb/>
maick Sy&longs;teme, and admirably agree with and confirm this other <lb/>
Hypothe&longs;is: and po&longs;&longs;ibly being a&longs;hamed to &longs;ee the known truth <lb/>
of other Po&longs;itions by me a&longs;&longs;erted, different from tho&longs;e that have <lb/>
been commonly received; and therefore di&longs;tru&longs;ting their de<lb/>
fence &longs;o long as they &longs;hould continue in the Field of Philo&longs;o<lb/>
phy: for the&longs;e re&longs;pects, I &longs;ay, they have re&longs;olved to try whe<lb/>
ther they could make a Shield for the fallacies of their Argu<lb/>
ments of the Mantle of a feigned Religion, and of the Autho<lb/>
rity of the Sacred Scriptures, applyed by them with little judg<lb/>
ment to the confutation of &longs;uch Rea&longs;ons of mine as they had <lb/>
neither under&longs;tood, nor &longs;o much as heard.</s></p>

<p type="margin"> <s><margin.target id="marg819"></margin.target>Lib_{+} 2. Gene&longs;i <lb/>
ad Literam in <lb/>
fine.</s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>And fir&longs;t, they have indeavoured, as much as in them lay, to <lb/>
divulge an opiniou thorow the Univer&longs;e, that tho&longs;e Propo&longs;itions <lb/>
are contrary to the Holy Letters, and con&longs;equently Damnable <lb/>
and Heretical: And thereupon perceiving, that for the mo&longs;t <lb/>
part, the inclination of Mans Nature is more prone to imbrace <lb/>
tho&longs;e enterprizes, whereby his Neighbour may, although un<lb/>
ju&longs;tly, be oppre&longs;&longs;ed, than tho&longs;e from whence he may receive <lb/>
ju&longs;t incouragement; it was no hard matter to find tho&longs;e Com<lb/>
plices, who for &longs;uch (that is, for Damnable and Heretical) did <lb/>
from their Pulpits with unwonted confidence preach it, with but <lb/>
an unmerciful and le&longs;s con&longs;iderate injury, not only to this Do<lb/>
ctrine, and to its followers, but to all Mathematicks and Ma<lb/>
thematicians together. </s> <s>Hereupon a&longs;&longs;uming greater confidence, <lb/>
and vainly hoping that that Seed which fir&longs;t took root in their un<lb/>
&longs;ound mindes, might &longs;pread its branches, and a&longs;cend towards <lb/>
Heaven, they went &longs;cattering rumours up and down among the <lb/>
People, That it would, ere long be condemned by Supreme Au<lb/>
thority: and knowing that &longs;uch a <emph type="italics"/>Cen&longs;ure<emph.end type="italics"/> would &longs;upplant <lb/>
not onely the&longs;e two Conclu&longs;ions of the Worlds Sy&longs;teme, but <lb/>
would make all other A&longs;tronomical and Phy&longs;ical Ob&longs;ervations <lb/>
that have corre&longs;pondence and nece&longs;&longs;ary connection therewith to <lb/>
become damnable, to facilitate the bu&longs;ine&longs;s they &longs;eek all they <lb/>
can to make this opinion (at lea&longs;t among the vulgar) to &longs;eem new, <lb/>
and peculiar to my &longs;elf, not owning to know that <emph type="italics"/>Nicholas Coper<lb/>
nicus<emph.end type="italics"/> was its Authour, or rather Re&longs;torer and Confirmer: a per<lb/>
&longs;on who was not only a Catholick, but a Prie&longs;t, Canonick, and <lb/>
&longs;o e&longs;teemed, that there being a Di&longs;pute in the <emph type="italics"/>Lateran Council,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
under <emph type="italics"/>Leo<emph.end type="italics"/> X. touching the correction of the Eccle&longs;ia&longs;tick Ca