Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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produceth ſundry and divers motions in living creatures. </
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to the flexures there is no need of them, the motions being of the
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whole, and not of ſome particular parts; and becauſe they are
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to be circular, the meer ſpherical figure is the moſt perfect
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lation or flection that can be deſired.</
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It is deſired to
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know, by means of
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what flexures and
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joynts the
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ſtrial Globe
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might
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move with three
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diverſe motions.
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One only
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ple may cauſe a
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plurality of
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ons in the Earth.
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that it may hold true in one ſingle motion, but in three different
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motions, in my opinion, and that of the Author, it is
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ble; as he going on, proſecuting the objection, writes in the
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lowing words.
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Let us ſuppoſe, with
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Copernicus,
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that the Earth
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moveth of its own faculty, and upon an intrinſick principle from
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Weſt to Eaſt in the plane of the Ecliptick; and again, that it alſo
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by an intrinſick principle revolveth about its centre, from Eaſt to
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Weſt; and for a third motion, that it of its own inclination
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cteth from North to South, and ſo back again.
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It being a
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nuate body, and not knit together with joints and flections, our
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fancy and our judgment will never be able to comprehend, that
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one and the ſame natural and indiſtinct principle, that is, that
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one and the ſame propenſion, ſhould actuate it at the ſame inſtant
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with different, and as it were of contrary motions. </
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lieve that any one would ſay ſuch a thing, unleſſe he had
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took to maintain this poſition right or wrong.</
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Fingamus modo cum Copernico terram aliqua ſuâ vi, & ab indito
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principio impelli ab Occaſu ad Ortum in Eclipticæ plano; tum
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ſus revolvi ab indito etiam principio, circa ſuimet centrum, ab
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Ortu in Occaſum; tertio deſlecti rurſus ſu opte nutu à
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ne in Auſtrum, & viciſſim.
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I had thought,
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Simplicius,
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that
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that you might have erred in reciting the words of the
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thor, but now I ſee that he, and that very groſſely,
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veth himſelf; and to my grief, I find that he hath ſet himſelf to
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oppoſe a poſition, which he hath not well underſtood; for theſe
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are not the motions which
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Copernicus
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aſſignes to the Earth.
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Copernicus
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maketh the annual motion
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by the Ecliptick contrary to the motion about its own centre? </
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muſt needs be that he never read his Book, which in an hundred
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places, and in the very firſt Chapters affirmeth thoſe motions to
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be both towards the ſame parts, that is from Weſt to Eaſt.
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prehend, that attributing to the Earth the motions that are ta
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ken, one of them from the Sun, and the other from the
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mum wobile,
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they muſt of neceſſity both move one and the ſame
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A groſſe error
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of the oppoſer of
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Copernicus.</
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A ſubtil and
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withal ſimple
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gument againſt
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Copernicus.</
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alſo. </
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primum mobile,
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