Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome

Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome

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To the most Serene Grand DUKE OF TUSCANY.

To the Noble and most perfectly Accomplished S^{t.} JOHN DENHAM Knight of the Noble Order of the BATH, And Surveyor General of his Ma^{ties} Works, &c.

THE AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS of the FIRST TOME.

GALILÆUS Galilæus Lyncæus, HIS SYSTEME OF THE WORLD.
  The First Dialogue.
  The Second Dialogue.
  The Third Dialogue.
  The Fourth Dialogue.

THE Ancient and Modern DOCTRINE OF Holy Fathers, AND Iudicious Divines,

A TABLE Of the most Observable PERSONS and MATTERS Mentioned in the FIRST PART Of The First Tome.

MATHEMATICAL COLLECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: THE SECOND TOME.

THE AUTHOURS EPISTLE TO Pope URBAN VIII.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE Authour and Work.

OF THE MENSURATION OF Running Waters.
LIB. I.
Lib. II.

A CONSIDERATION Upon the DRAINING OF THE Pontine Fenns.

A TABLE Of the most observable matters in this Treatise of the MENSURATION of RUNNING WATERS.

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GALILÆUS Galilæus Lyncæus, HIS SYSTEME OF THE WORLD.

The First Dialogue.

INTERLOCUTORS.SALVIATUS, SAGREDUS, and SIMPLICIUS.SALVIATUS.

It was our yesterdayes resolution, and agreement, that we should to day discourse the most distinctly, and particularly we could possible, of the natural reasons, and their efficacy that have been hitherto alledged on the one or other part, by the maintainers of the Positions, Aristotelian,and Ptolomaique; and by the followers
Copernicus reputeth the earth œ Globe like to a Planet.
of the Copernican Systeme: And because Copernicus placing the Earth among the moveable Bodies of Heaven, comes to constitute a Globe for the same like to a Planet; it would be good that we began our disputation with the examination of what, and how great the energy of the Peripateticks arguments is, when they demonstrate, that this Hypothesis is impos-A sible

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