Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 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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              ſelf? </s>
              <s>They are the Sectators of
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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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              tles
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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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              hanſe it.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Theſe kind of Drolleries put me in mind of that
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              ary which having reduced a great piece of Marble to the Image of
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              an
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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.</s>
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              A ridiculous
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              paſſage of a certain
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              Statuary.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I have many times wondered how theſe nice
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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.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Or when they ſhould be made to ſee that they have
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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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              ? </s>
              <s>for if his </s>
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