"To say... that the motion of the Earth meeting with the motion of the Lunar Orb, the concurrence of them occasioneth the Ebbing and Flowing [of the seas], is an absolute vanity, not onely beÂcause it is not exprest, nor seen how it should so happen, but the falsity is obvious, for that the Revolution of the Earth is not conÂtrary to the motion of the Moon, but is towards the same way. So that all that hath been hitherto said, and imagined by others, is, in my judgment, altogether invalid. But amongst all the famous men that have philosophated upon this admirable effect of Nature, I more wonder at Kepler than any of the rest, who being of a free and piercing wit, and having the motion ascriÂbed to the Earth, before him, hath for all that given his ear and assent to the Moons predominancy over the Water, and to ocÂcult properties, and such like trifles."
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Galileo Galilei, Diaologo sopra i Due Massi Sistemi del Mondo (1632) as quoted in Salusbury tr. The Systeme of the World: in Four Dialogues (1661)
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