Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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inſtead of
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to prove that they do not.</
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The anſwer to
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in the ſame place, when he
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ſaith, that the natural motion of the parts is the right motion
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downwards to the centre of the Univerſe; ſo that the circular
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converſion, that which cannot be eternal, cannot be natural: but
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the motion of the Earth downwards cannot be otherwiſe eternal;
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therefore much leſſe can it be natural: nor can any other motion
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the Earth move with a circular motion, this may be eternal to it,
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That which is
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violent, cannot be
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eternal, and that
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which cannot be
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Earth, and is to them eternal; nor ſhall it ever happen that they
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move not with a right motion; alwayes provided that the
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Simplicius
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Gibralter
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towards
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can eternally move towards that Coaſt? </
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tween the
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Herculean
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Pillars, and the ſhore of the
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Holy-land
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the diſtance being limited, it is paſt in a finite time, unleſſe one by
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returning back ſhould with a contrary motion begin the ſame
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age anew; but this would be an interrupted and no continued
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Pacifick
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Ocean, the
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Moluccha's,
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the Cape
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di buona
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Speranza,
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and from thence by the ſame Strait, and then again by
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the
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turneth about its ſelf, with infinite replications, it may be
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