Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ciple be intrinſecal, we ſhall not perceive a local motion that is
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rived from our ſelves, and we ſhall never diſcover a propenſion
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petually annexed to our ſelves.</
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He that will
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>So that the inſtance of this Philoſopher lays its ſtreſs
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on this, that whether the principle by which we move round with
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the Earth be either extern, or intern, yet however we muſt
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ceive it, and not perceiving it, it is neither the one nor the other,
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and therefore we move not, nor conſequently the Earth. </
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ſay, that it may be both ways, and yet we not perceive the ſame.
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>And that it may be external, the experiment of the boat
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bundantly ſatisſieth me; I ſay, ſuperabundantly, becauſe it being
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in our power at all times to make it move, and alſo to make it
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ſtand ſtill, and with great exactneſs to make obſervation, whether
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by ſome diverſity that may be comprehended by the ſenſe of
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ing, we can come to know whether it moveth or no, ſeeing that
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as yet no ſuch ſcience is obtained: Will it then be any matter of
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wonder, if the ſame accident is unknown to us on the Earth, the
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which may have carried us about perpetually, and we, without our
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being ever able to experiment its reſt? </
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Simplicius,
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as I
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lieve, have gone by boat many times to
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Padoua,
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and if you will
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confeſs the truth, you never felt in your ſelf the participation of
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that motion, unleſs when the boat running a-ground, or
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tring ſome obſtacle, did ſtop, and that you with the other
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gers being taken on a ſudden, were with danger over-ſet. </
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would be neceſſary that the Terreſtrial Globe ſhould meet with
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ſome rub that might arreſt it, for I aſſure you, that then you
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would diſcern the impulſe reſiding in you, when it ſhould toſs you
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up towards the Stars. </
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aſſiſted by Reaſon, you may perceive the motion of the boat, that
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is, with the ſight, in that you ſee the trees and buildings placed on
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the ſhoar, which being ſeparated from the boat, ſeem to move the
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intire ſatisfaction in this buſineſs of the Terreſtrial motion, look
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on the ſtars, which upon this reaſon ſeem to move the contrary
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ciple, ſuppoſing it to be internal, is a leſs reaſonable conceit; for
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if we do not feel ſuch a one, that cometh to us from without,
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and that frequently goeth away, with what reaſon can we expect
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to feel it, if it immutably and continually reſides in us? </
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us ſee what you have farther to allege on this argument.</
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Our motion may
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be either interne or
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externe, and yet
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we never perceive
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The motion of a
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Boat inſenſible to
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thoſe that are with
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The boats
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on is perceptible to
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the ſight joyn'd
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The terreſtrial
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motion collected
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from the ſtars.
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Ex hac itaque opinione
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neceſſe est diffidere noſtris ſenſibus, ut penitùs fall acibus vel ſtupidis
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in ſenſilibus, etiam conjunctiſſimis, dijudicandis. </
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ritatem ſperare poſſumus à facultate adeò fallaci ortum trabentem
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[Which I render thus:] From this opinion likewiſe, we muſt of </
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