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

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              Therefore, &c. </s>
              <s>The moſt proper and genuine anſwer to this
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              gation is contained in the Argument it ſelf; and even
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              Aristotle
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              puts it in our mouths, which it is impoſſible,
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              Simplicius,
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              that you
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              ſhould not have ſeen.</s>
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              The anſwer to
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              the ſecond
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              ment.
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I neither have ſeen it, nor do I yet apprehend it.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This cannot be, ſure, the thing is ſo very plain.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I will with your leave, caſt an eye upon the
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              Text.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>We will command the
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              Text
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              to be brought forthwith.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I alwayes carry it about with me: See here it is, and
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              I know the place perfectly well, which is in
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              lib. 2. De Cælo, cap.
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              16. Here it is,
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              Text
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              97.
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              Preterea omnia, quæ feruntur latione
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              circulari ſubdeficere videntur, ac moveri pluribus una latione,
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              præter primam Sphæram; quare & Terram neceſſariam eſt, ſive
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              circa medium, ſive in medio poſita feratur, duabus moveri
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              lationibus. </s>
              <s>Si autem hoc acciderit, neceſſariam eſt fieri
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              tiones, ac converſiones fixorum aſtrorum. </s>
              <s>Hoc autem non
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              tur ficri, ſed ſemper eadem, apud eadem loca ipſius, &
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              tur, & occidunt.
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              [In Engliſh thus:] Furthermore all that are
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              carried with circular motion, ſeem to ^{*} foreſlow, and to move
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              with more than one motion, except the firſt Sphere; wherefore
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              it is neceſſary that the Earth move with two motions, whether
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              it be carried about the ^{*} middle, or placed in the middle. </s>
              <s>But
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              if it be ſo, there would of neceſſity be alterations and
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              ons made amongſt the fixed Stars. </s>
              <s>But no ſuch thing is ſeen to
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              be done, but the ſame Star doth alwayes riſe and ſet in the ſame
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              place. </s>
              <s>In all this I find not any falacy, and my thinks the
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              ment is very forcible.</s>
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              * Subdeſicere.</s>
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              * Or Centre.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And this new reading of the place hath confirmed me
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              in the fallacy of the Sillogiſme, and moreover, diſcovered
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              ther falſity. </s>
              <s>Therefore obſerve. </s>
              <s>The Poſitions, or if you will,
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              Concluſions, which
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              Ariſtotle
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              endeavours to oppoſe, are two; one
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              is that of thoſe, who placing the Earth in the midſt of the World,
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              do make it move in it ſelf about its own centre. </s>
              <s>The other is of
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              thoſe, who conſtituting it far from the middle, do make it
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              volve with a circular motion about the middle of the Univerſe.
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              <s>And both theſe Poſitions he conjointly impugneth with one and
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              the ſame argument. </s>
              <s>Now I affirm that he is out in both the one
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              and the other impugnation; and that his error againſt the firſt
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              Poſition is an Equivoke or Paralogiſme; and his miſtake
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              ing the ſecond is a falſe conſequence. </s>
              <s>Let us begin with the firſt
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              Aſſertion, which conſtituteth the Earth in the midſt of the
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              World, and maketh it move in it ſelf about its own centre; and
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              let us confront it with the objection of
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              Ariſtotle
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              ; ſaying, All
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              moveables, that move circularly, ſeem to ^{*} foreſlow, and move
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              with more than one Byas, except the firſt Sphere (that is
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              the pri-
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              </s>
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