Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              by
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              Copernicus.
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              Which arguments, as being of ſomewhat a
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              rent nature, may be produced, after we have examined the
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              ſtrength of theſe already propounded.</s>
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              An argument
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              taken from the
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              Clouds, and from
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              Birds.
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              An argument
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              taken from the air
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              which we feel to
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              beat upon us when
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              we run a Horſe at
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              full ſpeed.
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              An argument
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              taken from the
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              whirling of
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              lar motion, which
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              hath a faculty to
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              extrude and
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              pate.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>What ſay you
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              Simplicius
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              ? </s>
              <s>do you think that
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              Salviatus
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              is Maſter of, and knoweth how to unfold the
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              Ptolomean
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              and
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              ſtotelian
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              arguments? </s>
              <s>Or do you think that any
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              Peripatetick
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              is
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              qually verſt in the
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              Copernican
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              demonſtrations?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Were it not for the high eſteem, that the paſt
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              ſes have begot in me of the learning of
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              Salviatus,
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              and of the
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              cuteneſſe of
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              Sagredus,
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              I would by their good leave have gone my
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              way without ſtaying for their anſwers; it ſeeming to me a thing
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              impoſſible, that ſo palpable experiments ſhould be contradicted;
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              and would, without hearing them farther, conſirm my ſelf in my
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              old perſwaſion; for though I ſhould be made to ſee that it was
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              roneous, its being upheld by ſo many probable reaſons, would
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              der it excuſeable. </s>
              <s>And if theſe are fallacies, what true
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              tions were ever ſo fair?</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Yet its good that we hear the reſponſions of
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              Salviatus
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              ;
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              which if they be true, muſt of neceſſity be more fair, and that by
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              inſinite degrees; and thoſe muſt be deformed, yea moſt deformed,
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              if the Metaphy ſical Axiome hold, That true and fair are one and
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              the ſame thing; as alſo falſe and deformed. </s>
              <s>Therefore
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              Salviatus
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              let's no longer loſe time.</s>
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              True and fair
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              are one and the
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              ſame, as alſo falſe
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              and deformed.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The firſt Argument alledged by
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              Simplicius,
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              if I well
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              member it, was this. </s>
              <s>The Earth cannot move circularly, becauſe
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              ſuch motion would be violent to the ſame, and therefore not
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              petual: that it is violent, the reaſon was: Becauſe, that had it been
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              natural, its parts would likewiſe naturally move round, which is
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              impoſſible, for that it is natural for the parts thereof to move with a
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              right motion downwards. </s>
              <s>To this my reply is, that I could
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              ly wiſh, that
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              Ariſtotle
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              had more cleerly expreſt himſelf, where he
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              ſaid; That its parts would likewiſe move circularly; for this
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              ving circularly is to be underſtood two wayes, one is, that every
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              particle or atome ſeparated from its
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              Whole
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              would move circularly
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              about its particular centre, deſcribing its ſmall Circulets; the other
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              is, that the whole Globe moving about its centre in twenty four
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              hours, the parts alſo would turn about the ſame centre in four and
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              twenty hours. </s>
              <s>The firſt would be no leſſe an impertinency, than
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              if one ſhould ſay, that every part of the circumference of a Circle
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              ought to be a Circle; or becauſe that the Earth is Spherical, that
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              therefore every part thereof be a Globe, for ſo doth the
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              Axiome
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              require:
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              Eadem eſt ratio totius, & partium.
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              But if he took it in
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              the other ſenſe, to wit, that the parts in imitation of the
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              Whole
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              ſhould move naturally round the Centre of the whole Globe in
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              twenty four hours, I ſay, that they do ſo; and it concerns you, </s>
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