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GALILÆUS

Galilæus Lyncæus,

HIS

SYSTEME

OF THE

WORLD.

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The Fourth Dialogue.

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INTERLOCUTORS.

Salviatus, Sagredus, and Simplicius.

Sagr.

I know not whether your return to our accustomed conferences hath really been later than usual, or whether the desire of hearing the thoughts of Salviatus, touching a matter so curious, hath made me think it so: But I have tarried a long hour at this window, expecting every moment when the Gondola would appear that I sent to fetch you. Salv.I verily believe that your imagination more than our tarriance hath prolonged the time:Nature in sport maketh the ebbing and flowing of the Sea, to approve the Earths mobility. and to make no longer demurre, it would be well, if without interposing more words, we came to the matter it self; and did shew, that nature hath permitted (whether the business in rei veritate be so, or else to play

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