Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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that had made the experiment: for whoever ſhall examine the
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ſame, ſhall find the event ſucceed quite contrary to what hath
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been written of it: that is, he ſhall ſee the ſtone fall at all times
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in the ſame place of the Ship, whether it ſtand ſtill, or move with
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Earth, as in the Ship, one cannot from the ſtones falling
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dicularly at the foot of the Tower, conclude any thing touching
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the motion or reſt of the Earth.</
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The stone falling
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from the Mast of
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a ſhip lights in the
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ſame place,
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ther the ſhip doth
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move or ly still.
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experience, I verily believe our Diſputations would not come to
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an end in haſte; for this ſeemeth to me a thing ſo remote from all
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humane reaſon, as that it leaveth not the leaſt place for credulity
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or probability.</
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one proof thereof, and do you ſo confidently affirm it for true?
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I had that the Experiment hath been tried by the principal
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thors who made uſe thereof, and that the event ſucceeded as they
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it is neceſſary that it ſhould: and I farther add, that you know your
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ſelf that it cannot fall out otherwiſe, however you feign or ſeem to
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feign that you know it not. </
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that I will make you confeſs the ſame whether you will or no. </
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ſtands very mute, and yet, if I miſtake not, I ſaw him
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make an offer to ſpeak ſomewhat.</
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know not what it was; for the curioſity that you have moved in me,
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by promiſing that you would force
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to diſcover the
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knowledg which he would conceal from us, hath made me to
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poſe all other thoughts: therefore I pray you to make good your
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vaunt.</
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do conſent to reply to what I
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ſhall ask him, I will not fail to do it.</
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much put to it, for that of thoſe things which I hold to be falſe,
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I think nothing can be known, in regard that Science reſpecteth
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truths and not falſhoods.</
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any thing, ſave that which you moſt aſſuredly know. </
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tell me; If you had here a flat ſuperficies as polite as a
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glaſs, and of a ſubſtance as hard as ſteel, and that it were not
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ralel to the Horizon, but ſomewhat inclining, and that upon it
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you did put a Ball perfectly ſpherical, and of a ſubſtance grave and </
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