Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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contrary, I commend the reading, and diligently ſtudying of him;
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and onely blame the ſervile giving ones ſelf up a ſlave unto him,
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ſo, as blindly to ſubſcribe to what ever he delivers, and without
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ſearch of any farther reaſon thereof, to receive the ſame for an
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ther great inconvenience, to wit, that others will no longer take
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pains to underſtand the validity of his Demonſtrations. </
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what is more ſhameful, than in the middeſt of publique diſputes,
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whileſt one perſon is treating of demonſtrable concluſions, to
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hear aother interpoſe with a paſſage of
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Ariſtotle,
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and not
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dome writ to quite another purpoſe, and with that to ſtop the
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manner, I would have you lay aſide the name of Philoſophers;
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and call your ſelves either Hiſtorians or Doctors of Memory, for
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it is not ſit, that thoſe who never philoſophate, ſhould uſurp
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the honourable title of Philoſophers. </
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turn to ſhore, and not lanch farther into a boundleſſe Gulph, out
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of which we ſhall not be able to get before night. </
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come either with arguments and demonſtrations of
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your own, or of
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Ariſtotle,
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and bring us no more Texts and
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ked authorities, for our diſputes are about the Senſible World,
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and not one of Paper. </
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day, we retrein'd the Earth from darkneſſe, and expoſed it to the
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open skie, ſhewing, that the attempt to enumerate it amongſt
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thoſe which we call Cœleſtial bodies, was not a poſition ſo foil'd,
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and vanquiſh't, as that it had no life left in it; it followeth next,
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that we proceed to examine what probability there is for holding
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of it fixt, and wholly immoveable,
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ſcilicet
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as to its entire Globe,
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what likelyhood there is for making it moveable with ſome motion,
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and of what kind that may be. </
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queſtion I am ambiguous, and
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Simplicius
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is reſolute, as likewiſe
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for the opinion of its immobility, he ſhall one by one
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produce the arguments in favour of their opinion, and I will
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ledge the anſwers and reaſons on the contrary part; and next
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gredus
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Too cloſe
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It is not juſt, that
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thoſe who never
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philoſophate, ſhould
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uſurp the title of
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Philoſophers.
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The Senſible
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World.
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>SAGR. Content; provided alwayes that I may reſerve the
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berty to my ſelf of alledging what pure natural reaſon ſhall
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for, amongſt the more eaſie, and, to ſo ſpeak, material
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tions, I believe there are but few of them that have been
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ted by Writers, ſo that onely ſome of the more ſubtle, and
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mote can be deſired, or wanting; and to inveſtigate theſe, what
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other ingenuity can be more ſit than that of the moſt acute and
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piercing wit of
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