Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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nious, and to outward appearance moſt powerful, you may ſee
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how much more acute and ingenious the ſolution muſt be, and
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not to be found by a wit leſſe piercing than that of
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Copernicus
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and again from the difficulty in underſtanding it, you may argue
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>But let us for the
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ſent ſuſpend our anſwer, which you ſhall underſtand in due time
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and place, after we have repeated the objection of
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Ariſtotle,
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ſtotles
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third Argument, touching which we need give no farther
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reply, it having been ſufficiently anſwered betwixt the diſcourſes
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of yeſterday and to day: In as much as he urgeth, that the
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tion of grave bodies is naturally by a right line to the centre; and
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then enquireth, whether to the centre of the Earth, or to that
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of the Univerſe, and concludeth that they tend naturally to the
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centre of the Univerſe, but accidentally to that of the Earth.
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Therefore we may proceed to the fourth, upon which its requiſite
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that we ſtay ſome time, by reaſon it is founded upon that
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riment, from whence the greater part of the remaining
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Ariſtotle
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ſaith therefore, that it is
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a moſt convincing argument of the Earths immobility, to ſee
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that projections thrown or ſhot upright, return perpendicularly
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by the ſame line unto the ſame place from whence they were ſhot
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>And this holdeth true, although the motion be of a
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very great height; which could never come to paſſe, did the
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Earth move: for in the time that the projected body is moving
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upwards and downwards in a ſtate of ſeparation from the Earth,
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the place from whence the motion of the projection began, would
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be paſt, by means of the Earths revolution, a great way
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wards the Eaſt, and look how great that ſpace was, ſo far from
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that place would the projected body in its deſcent come to the
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ground. </
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>So that hither may be referred the argument taken from
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a bullet ſhot from a Canon directly upwards; as alſo that other
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uſed by
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Ptolomy,
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of the grave bodies that falling
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from on high, are obſerved to deſcend by a direct and
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lar line to the ſurface of the Earth. </
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theſe knots, I demand of
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Simplicius
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that in caſe one ſhould deny
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Ptolomy
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Ariſtotle
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that weights in falling freely from on
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high, deſcend by a right and perpendicular line, that is, directly
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to the centre, what means he would uſe to prove it?</
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Ariſtotles
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ment againſt the
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Earths motion, is
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defective in two
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* The ſame word
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which a little above
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I tendred ſtay
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hind, as a bowle
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when it meets with
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ruls.</
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The anſwer to
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the third
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The anſwer to
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the fourth
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that Tower or other altitude, is upright and perpendicular, and
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ſheweth us that that ſtone, or other grave body, doth ſlide along
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the Wall, without inclining a hairs breadth to one ſide or
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ther, and light at the foot thereof juſt under the place from whence
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it was let fall.</
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