Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              ſame terreſtrial evaporations, we finde a perpetual gale move
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              from the Eaſt with ſo conſtant a blaſt, that ſhips by favour
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              of ſail proſperouſly to the
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              West-India's.
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              And from the ſame
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              coaſting along the
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              Mexican
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              ſhore, they with the ſame felicity paſs
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              the
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              Pacifick
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              Ocean towards the
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              India's
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              ; which to us are Eaſt, but
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              to them are Weſt. </s>
              <s>Whereas on the contrary the Courſe from
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              thence towards the Eaſt is difficult and uncertain, and not to be
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              made by the ſame Rhumb, but muſt vere more to Land-ward, to
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              recover other Winds, which we may call accidentary and
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              tuary, produced from other Principles, as thoſe that inhabit the
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              continent find by experience. </s>
              <s>Of which productions of Winds,
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              the Cauſes are many and different, which ſhall not at this time be
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              mentioned. </s>
              <s>And theſe accidentary Winds are thoſe which blow
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              indifferently from all parts of the Eatth, and make rough the Seas
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              remote from the Equinoctial, and environed by the rugged
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              face of the Earth; which is as much as to ſay environ'd with
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              thoſe perturbations of Air, that confound that primary Gale.
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              <s>The which, in caſe theſe accidental impediments were removed,
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              would be continually felt, and eſpecially upon the Sea. </s>
              <s>Now
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              ſee how the effect of the Water and Air ſeem wonderfully to
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              cord with the Celeſtial obſervations, to confirm the mobility of
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              our Terreſtrial
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              The vaporous
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              parts of the earth,
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              partake of its
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              tions.
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              Conſtant gales
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              within the
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              pieks blow towards
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              the Weſt.
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              The courſe to the
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              Weſt
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              -India's
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              ſie, the return
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              ficult.
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              Winds from Land
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              make rough the
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              Seas.
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              Another
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              tion taken from the
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              Air in
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              on of the motion of
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              the Earth.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I alſo for a final cloſe will relate to you one particular,
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              which as I believe is unknown unto you, and which likewiſe may
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              ſerve to confirm the ſame concluſion: You
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              Salviatus
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              alledged,
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              That Accident which Sailers meet with between the Tropicks;
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              I mean that perpetual Gale of Winde that beats upon them from
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              the Eaſt, of which I have an account from thoſe that have many
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              times made the Voyage: And moreover (which is very
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              vable) I underſtand that the Mariners do not call it a
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              Wind,
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              but </s>
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              by another ^{*} name, which I do not now remember, taken haply
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              from its ſo fixed and conſtant Tenor; which when they have met
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              with, they tie up their ſhrouds and other cordage belonging to
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              the Sails, and without any more need of touching them, though
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              they be in a ſleep, they can continue their courſe. </s>
              <s>Now this conſtant
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              Trade-wind was known to be ſuch by its continual blowing
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              out interruptions; for if it were interrupted by other Windes, it
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              would not have been acknowledged for a ſingular Effect, and
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              different from the reſt: from which I wlll infer, That it may be
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              that alſo our Mediterranean Sea doth partake of the like accident;
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              but it is not obſerved, as being frequently altered by the
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              ence of other windes. </s>
              <s>And this I ſay, not without good grounds,
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              yea upon very probable conjectures whch came unto my
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              ledge, from that which tendred it ſelf to my notice on occaſion of
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              the voyage that I made into
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              Syria,
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              going Conſul for this Nation </s>
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