"I do not ask the Peripateticks... they, as observant and humble vassals of Aristotle, would deny all the ex­periments and all the observations in the World, nay, would also refuse to see them, that they might not be forced to acknowledg them, and would say that the World stands as Aristotle writeth, and not as nature will have it, for depriving them of the shield of his Authority, with what do you think they would appear in the field?"