Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              on other different concomitant cauſes, although they ought all
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              to have connexion with the primary; therefore it is convenient
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              that we propound and examine the ſeveral accidents that may
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              be the cauſes of ſuch different effects.</s>
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              Demonſtrations
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              how the parts of
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              the terreſtriall
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              Globe accelerats
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              and ratard.
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              The parts of a
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              Circle regularly
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              moved about its
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              own centre move in
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              divers times with
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              contrary motions.
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              The mixture of
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              the two motions
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              annnal and
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              nal, cauſeth the
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              inequality in the
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              motion of the parts
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              of the terreſtrial
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              Globe.
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              The moſt potent
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              and primary cauſe
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              of the ebbing and
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              flowing.
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              <s>The firſt of which is, that when ever the water, by means of a
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              notable retardation or acceleration of the motion of the Veſſel,
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              its container, ſhall have acquired a cauſe of running towards this
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              or that extream, and ſhall be raiſed in the one, and abated in the
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              other, it ſhall not nevertheleſſe continue, for any time in that
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              ſtate, when once the primary cauſe is ceaſed: but by vertue of
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              its own gravity and natural inclination to level and grow, even it
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              ſhall ſpeedily return backwards of its own accord, and, as being
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              grave and fluid, ſhall not only move towards
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              Æquilibrium
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              ; but
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              being impelled by its own
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              impetus,
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              ſhall go beyond it, riſing in
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              the part, where before it was loweſt; nor ſhall it ſtay here, but
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              returning backwards anew, with more reiterated reciprocations of
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              its undulations, it ſhall give us to know, that it will not from a
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              velocity of motion, once conceived, reduce it ſelf, in an inſtant,
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              to the privation thereof, and to the ſtate of reſt, but will
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              ſively, by decreaſing a little and a little, reduce it ſelf unto the
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              ſame, juſt in the ſame manner as we ſee a weight hanging at a
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              cord, after it hath been once removed from its ſtate of reſt, that
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              is, from its perpendicularity, of its own accord, to return thither
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              and ſettle it ſelf, but not till ſuch time as it ſhall have often
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              paſt to one ſide, and to the other, with its reciprocall
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              brations.</s>
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              Sundry accidents
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              that happen in the
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              ebbings & flowings
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              The first
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              dent.
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              The Water
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              ſed in one end of
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              the Veſſel
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              eth of its ſelf to
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              Æquilibrium.</s>
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              <s>The ſecond accident to be obſerved is, that the
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              declared reciprocations of motion come to be made and repeated
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              with greater or leſſer frequency, that is, under ſhorter or longer
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              times, according to the different lengths of the Veſſels
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              ing the waters; ſo that in the ſhorter ſpaces the
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              ons are more frequent, and in the longer more rare: juſt as in
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              the former example of pendent bodies, the vibrations of thoſe
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              that are hanged to longer cords are ſeen to be leſſe frequent,
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              than thoſe of them that hang at ſhorter ſtrings.</s>
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              In the ſhorter
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              Viſſels the
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              tions of waters are
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              more frequent.
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              <s>And here, for a third obſervation, it is to be noted, that not
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              onely the greater or leſſer length of the Veſſel is a cauſe that
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              the water maketh its reciprocations under different times; but
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              the greater or leſſer profundity worketh the ſame effect. </s>
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              it happeneth, that of waters contained in receptacles of equall
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              length, but of unequal depth, that which ſhall be the deepeſt,
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              maketh its undulations under ſhorter times, and the
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              ons of the ſhallower waters are leſſe frequent.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              The greater
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              profundity maketh
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              the undulations of
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              waters more
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              quent.
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              <s>Fourthly, there are two effects worthy to be noted, and
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              ligently obſerved, which the water worketh in thoſe its </s>
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