And if the stone being suspended within the air, be let go, do descend to the centre, it’s going to separate from its entire, opposite to Copernicus: if it do dangle within the air, it contradicteth all experience: since we see entire Vaults to fall down. And what is going to go down like a lead balloon. The second group, with the single genus Argentina, is, like the next, marine, and is characterized by 6 branchiostegal rays, II to I4 ventral ra s, the stomach caecal, with pyloric appendages in moderate numbers (iz to 20). The third group, genera Osmerus, Thaleichthys, Mallotus, Plecoglassus, Hypomesus, has 6 to IO branchiostegal rays, 6 to 8 ventral rays, the stomach caecal, with pyloric appendages few (2 to II) or moderately quite a few. Some of the primary to die had been studying issues that simply now are starting to make people fear, just like the natural origins of Alzheimer’s disease and CJD (Mad Cow Disease in people). And since I am certain he will say, that he would by no means have been in a position to have known any of all these issues which experience alone hath made him knowing in, he ought to not deny me pardon, and to excuse me if I know not that which he is aware of, touching what would ensue upon the annihilation of the mentioned Globe: for that I need that expertise which he hath.
Now, those of you who know me know that I’m a reasonably open-minded form of sapient lifeform. Salv.I will answer, although with nice drawback to my self, seeing I must do with one who hath seen by experience, what these stones do on this great Cave: a thing, which for my part I haven’t seen; and will say, that issues grave have an existence before the frequent centre of gravity:Things grave are before the centre of gravity. If the first; it contradicteth all cause and experience, nor doth the grave body rest in the centre of its gravity. And since the proceeding by interrogatories doth for my part a lot dilucidate things, besides the pleasure which it affords of confounding our companion, forcing from him that which he thought he knew not, I’ll make use of that artifice. And first inform me, what impact hath that stone upon you, which falling from the top of the Tower, is the trigger that you just perceive that motion; for if its fall doth function upon you neither more nor lesse, than its standing still on the Towers top, you doubtlesse couldn’t discern its descent, or distinguish its shifting from its mendacity still.
Salv.Then if that stone have been let fall from the tallons of an Eagle flying, and should descend thorow the straightforward invisible Air, and also you had no other object seen and stable, wherewith to make comparisons to that, you could not understand its movement? And due to this fact I hold, that in the Cave filled with air, the entire Vault would press, and violently relaxation it self onely upon that air, in case its hardness could not be overcome and damaged by its gravity; but free stones, I consider, would descend to the centre, and not swim above in the air: nor might or not it’s said, that they move not to their whole, although they move whither all of the components of the whole would transfer themselves, if all impediments have been removed. The nice maß of grave our bodies being transferred out of their place, the separated parts would observe that maß. Salv.I perceive you very properly: and it will be handy after now we have heard what he hath to say towards Copernicus, that we hear, or see at least the manner wherewith he, by way of Parallaxes, proveth these new stars to be elementary, which so many well-known Astronomers constitute to be all very high, and amongst the stars of the Firmament; and as this Author accomplisheth such an enterprize of pulling the brand new stars out of heaven, and putting them within the elementary Sphere, he shall be worthy to be highly exalted, and transferred himself amongst the stars, or no less than, that his name be by fame eternized amongst them.
And if these things befall in matters not natural, and in issues that we may experiment of their state of relaxation; & then again in the opposite state of movement, and yet as to look no range at all is discovered, & that they seem to deceive our sense what can we distinguish touching the Earth, which hath been perpetually in the identical structure, as to motion and rest? Which, based on the opinion of all the sects of Philosophers requireth, that Sense and Experience be our guides in philosophating: But in the Copernican position the Senses are tremendously deluded, whil’st that they visibly uncover neer at hand in a pure Medium, the gravest bodies to descend perpendicularly downwards, never deviating a single hairs breadth from rectitude; and but in line with the opinion of Copernicus, the sight in so manifest a factor is deceived, and that movement will not be reall straight, but mixt of proper and circular. It simply appeared to be the suitable time as a result of it was getting increasingly challenging to report my reveals.