Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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caſe, which
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Copernicus
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alledgeth, that by reaſon this motion is
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natural to the Earth and not violent, it worketh contrary effects
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to violent motions; and that thoſe things diſſolve and cannot
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long ſubſiſt, to which impulſe is conferred, but thoſe ſo made
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by nature do continue in their perfect diſpoſure; this anſwer
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ficeth not, I ſay, for it is overthrown by that of ours. </
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nimal is a natural body, and not made by art, and its motion is
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natural, deriving it ſelf from the ſoul, that is, from an intrinſick
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principle; and that motion is violent, whoſe beginning is
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out, and on which the thing moved conferreth nothing;
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ever, if the animal continueth its motion any long time, it grows
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weary, and alſo dyeth, if it obſtinately ſtrive to perſiſt therein.
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trary to the
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Copernican Hypotheſis,
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and none in favour of it. </
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for that I have nothing more wherein to take the part of this
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ponent, hear what he produceth againſt
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Keplerus
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(with whom
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he diſputeth) upon that argument, which the ſaid
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Kepler
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bringeth
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againſt thoſe who think it an inconvenient, nay impoſſible thing,
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to augment the Starry Sphere immenſely, as the
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Copernican
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potheſis requireth.
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Kepler
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therefore inſtanceth, ſaying:
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us ect, accidens præter modulum ſubjecti intendere, quàm ſub-
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jectum ſine accidente augere. </
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qui auget Orbem Stellarum fixarum abſque motu, quam Ptolomæus,
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qui auget motum fixarum immenſà velocitate.
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[Which makes this
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Engliſh.] Its harder to ſtretch the accident beyond the model of the
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ſubject than to augment the ſubject without the accident.
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hath more probability on his ſide, who encreaſeth the Orb of the
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fixed Stars without motion, than
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Ptolomy
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who augmenteth the
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motion of the fixed Stars to an immenſe degree of velocity.
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Which objection the Author anſwereth, wondering how much
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Kepler
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deceived himſelf, in ſaying, that in the Ptolomaick
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ſis the motion encreaſeth beyond the model of the ſubject, for in
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his judgment it doth not encreaſe, ſave onely in conformity to the
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model, and that according to its encreaſement, the velocity of
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the motion is augmented. </
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chine to be framed, that maketh one revolution in twenty four
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hours, which motion ſhall be called moſt ſlow; afterwards
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poſing its ſemidiameter to be prolonged, as far as to the diſtance
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of the Sun, its extreme will equal the velocity of the Sun; and
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it being cantinued out unto the Starry Sphere, it will equal the
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velocity of the fixed Stars, though in the circumferrnce of the
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machine it be very ſlow. </
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machine to the Starry Sphere, let us imagine any point in its
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midiameter, as neer to the centre as is the ſemidiameter of the
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chine; the ſame motion that in the Starry Sphere is exceeding </
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