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Et the Reader firt of all favor me o far, as to give me leave to deprecate his evere cenure for any laying down that for a Foundation and Principle demontrable, which to him, eems to need proof as much as any thing ele I hall ay: For though in former times the motion of the Earth hath been exploded as aburd, and in this lat Age by Noble Verulam himelf (whoe profound Philoophy I no les admire, then I do at their unworthy lighting of it, who proud of their own high oaring Phantaies, contemn experiment as below them; and though they demolih the airy Catles of the Stagirite, do it, but to make their own more pectable) condemned as vain; yet it is by Galileo, Philolaus in his De Sytemate Mundi, and other accurate Obervers and Comparers of the Phænomena of Heaven, o plainly demontrated, that it mut now no longer pas for , but in the language of the Schools under the Notion of. Neither can I attribute the error of the Ancients, and the Lord Verulam touching this point, to any thing o much as this, That they were not ufficiently ver'd in Atronomy: For the Phænomena and reaons whereon this piece of truth hangs, are for the Rh