Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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whether
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Ariſtotle,
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had he but ſeen the novelties diſcovered in
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ven, would not have changed his opinion, amended his Books,
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and embraced the more ſenſible Doctrine; rejecting thoſe ſilly
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Gulls, which too ſcrupulouſly, go about to defend what ever he
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hath ſaid; not conſidering, that if
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Ariſtotle
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were ſuch a one as
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they fancy him to themſelves, he would be a man of an
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ble wit, an obſtinate mind, a barbarous ſoul, a ſtubborn will,
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that accounting all men elſe but as ſilly ſheep, would have his
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Oracles preferred before the Senſes, Experience, and Nature her
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Aristotle
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that have given him this
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Authority, and not he that hath uſurped or taken it upon him;
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and becauſe it is more eaſie for a man to ſculk under anothers
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ſhield than to ſhew himſelf openly, they tremble, and are affraid
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to ſtir one ſtep from him; and rather than they will admit ſome
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alterations in the Heaven of
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Ariſtotle,
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they will impertinently
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ny thoſe they behold in the Heaven of
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Nature.
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Some of
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Sectators
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pare the reputation
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of their Maſter, in
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going about to
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ary which having reduced a great piece of Marble to the Image of
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Hercules,
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or a thundring
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Jupiter,
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I know not whether, and
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given it with admirable Art ſuch a vivacity and threatning fury,
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that it moved terror in as many as beheld it; he himſelf began
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alſo to be affraid thereof, though all its ſprightfulneſſe, and life
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was his own workmanſhip; and his affrightment was ſuch, that
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he had no longer the courage to affront it with his Chizzels and
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Mallet.</
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A ridiculous
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paſſage of a certain
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Statuary.
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ers of what ever fell from
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Ariſtotle,
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are not aware how great a
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judice they are to his reputation and credit; and how that the
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more they go about to encreaſe his Authority, the more they
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diminiſh it; for whileſt I ſee them obſtinate in their attempts
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to maintain thoſe Propoſitions which I palpably diſcover to
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be manifeſtly falſe; and in their deſires to perſwade me that
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ſo to do, is the part of a Philoſopher; and that
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Ariſtotle
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himſelf
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would do the ſame, it much abates in me of the opinion that he
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hath rightly philoſophated about other concluſions, to me more
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abſtruſe: for if I could ſee them concede and change opinion in
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a manifeſt truth, I would believe, that in thoſe in which they
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ſhould perſiſt, they may have ſome ſolid demonſtrations to me
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known, and unheard of.</
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zarded too much of their own and
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Ariſtotle
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's repuatation in
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feſſing, that they had not underſtood this or that concluſion found
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out by ſome other man; would it not be a leſs evil for them to
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ſeek for it amongſt his Texts, by laying many of them together,
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according to the art intimated to us by
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Simplicius
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