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tracted with it. So that the violence to the bullet, being nothing else but that whereby 'tis removed from its center, therefore an equall violence can carry a body from its proper place, but at an equal distance whether or no the center stand still or move.

The impartiall Reader may finde sufficient satisfaction for this and such other arguments as may be urged against the motion of that earth in the writings of Capernicus and his followers, unto whom for brevities sake I will referre them.


Proposition 9.

That there are high Mountaines, deepe vallies, and spacious plaines in the body of the Moone.

THough there are some who thinke Mountaines to bee a deformity in the earth, as if they

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