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dialogo
"I do not claim that assent which I do not give to this invention which might very much turn out to be a most foolish hallucination."

"partially from the novelty rather than the certainty"

"I have not heard anything more admirable than this, nor can I believe that the human mind has ever penetrated into subltler speculations" sagrado to salviati

"our lyncaen academician" discovered sunspots

neutral calls ptolemy's constructs monstrosities, even provides examples supporting salvati

even counters the argument of utility- the divine providence omits mo things that look to the governance of human affiars but there may be other things in the universe dependent on the infinity of its wisdom

"oh nic cop what a pleasure it would have been for you to see this part of your system confirmed by so clear an experiment - the neutral

Galileo begins by outlining Aristotle's concept of the universe, and points out that it rests on the assumption that there can be only one down, rather than many.

Simplicio responds to Salviati's calculations by parroting Aristotle and declaring him right. Even claiming that ptolemy must have known about galileo's discoveries

"I am surprised that you should have Aristotle's fallacy revealed, it being so obvious"

"utterly delusive chimera"- sunspots re: aristotelians "rankest ignorance of perspective".

simplicio constantly complains of his own ignorance

"he is deeply moved by the overwhelming force of these conclusive arguments".

"discriminating and perceptive".

Simplicio either quotes Aristotle or Aristotelians.

middle "My customary lack of tact"

Simplicio, employing Galileo's recent discovery of the phases of Venus, essentially constructs the Tychonic system, though Primary doesn't refer to it as such, merely as an imperfect copernican, noting that, as all other objects use the sun as their reference point it makes more sense for the earth to as well.

the sort of follies that are designed to make the common people unwilling to listen to this innovation little regard for imbiciles.

the minds of people who are too stupid to recognise their own limitations.

Simplicio even defends simple people for being simple as it is not their fault (translation?)

frankly i have no interst in reading those books nor up to now have i put any faith in the newly introduced optical device.

if i have been in error I shall be glad to be lifted out of it

"the ills are in the ptolemaic and the cures are in copernicus"

the theory iof this alone aught ot be enough to gain assent for the rtest of the doctrine for anyone who is neither stubborn nor unteachable.

has increased his capacity to reason rigourously

leave the decision of who is correct to human reason