Quote: there is no reason to fear mutation, corruption, and generation of remote objects

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[Galileo letter to Cesi, November 1612, translator S. Drake; Regarding arguments against sunspots that sunspots imply an alteration to the heavens.] Well, if alteration were annihilation, the Peripatetics … reason for such bitter hostility to it. It … if "corruption" and "generation" are discovered in the … Why fear so much for the dissolution of …   Google-1   Google-2

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