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 THE

Ancient and Modern

DOCTRINE

OF

Holy Fathers,

AND

Iudicious Divines,

CONCERNING

The rash citation of the Testimony of SACRED SCRIPTURE, in Conclusions meerly Natural, and that may be proved by Sensible Experiments, and Necessary Demonstrations.

Written, some years since, to Gratifie The most SERENE CHRISTINA LOTHARINGA, Arch-Dutchess of TVSCANY;

By GALILAEO GALILAEI, A Gentleman of Florence, and Chief Philosopher and Mathematician to His most Serene Highness the Grand DVKE.

And now rendred into English from the Italian,

BY

THOMAS SALUSBURY.

Naturam Rerum invenire, difficile; & ubi inveneris, indicare in vulgus, nefas. Plato.

LONDON,

Printed by WILLIAM LEYBOURN,

1661.