Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              where I was ſtranded, and forced to ſtay there more than a full
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              hour, in expecting the return of the tide: and there waiting in
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              this manner, without being able to get out of the boat, which on a
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              ſudden ran a ground, I obſerved a certain accident, which to me
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              ſeemed very ſtrange; and it was this, that in the waters ebbing
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              I ſaw it retreat very faſt by ſeveral ſmall rivolets, the ouze being
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              in many places diſcovered, and whilſt I ſtood looking upon this
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              fect, I ſaw this motion in an inſtant to ceaſe, and without a
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              nutes interval the ſame water to begin to return back again, and
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              the tide from ebbing to become young flood, without ſtanding
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              ſtill a moment: an effect that as long as I have dwelt in
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              Venice,
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              I never took notice of before.</s>
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              The motion of
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              the water in ebbing
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              and flowing not
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              terrupted by reſt.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>It is very much, that you ſhould be left thus on ground,
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              amongſt ſmall Channels; in which rivolets, as having very little
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              declivity, the riſing or falling of the main ſea, the thickneſs onely
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              of a paper is ſufficient to make the water to ebbe and flow for good
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              long ſpaces of time: like as in ſome creeks of the Sea, its flowing
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              four or ſix ^{*} yards onely, maketh the water to overflow the
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              cent Marſhes for ſome hundreds and thouſands of ^{*}
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              * Pertiche
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              tiani.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>This I know very well, but I ſhould have thought, that
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              between the ultimate terme of ebbing, and the firſt beginnng to
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              flow, there ſhould have interpoſed ſome conſiderable interval of
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              reſt.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>This will appear unto you, if you caſt your eye upon
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              the bank or piles, where theſe mutations are made
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              ly, but not that there is any real time of ceſſation.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I did think, that becauſe theſe two motions were
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              trary, there ought to be in the midſt between them ſome kind of
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              reſt; conformable to the Doctrine of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              which demonſtrates.
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              <s>that
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              in puncto regreſſus mediat quies.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I very well remember this place: but I bear in minde
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              alſo, that when I read Philoſophy, I was not thorowly ſatisfied
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              with
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              Ariſtotles
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              demonſtration; but that I had many experiments
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              on the contrary, which I could ſtill rehearſe unto you, but I am
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              unwilling to ſally out into any other digreſſions, we being met
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              here to diſcourſe of the propoſed mattes, if it be poſſible, without
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              theſe excurſions wherewith we have interrupted our diſputes in
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              thoſe dayes that are paſt.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>And yet we may with convenience, if not interrupt
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              them, at leaſt prolong them very much, for returning
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              day home, I ſet my ſelſ to read the Tractate of Concluſions, where
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              I find Demonſtrations againſt this annual motion aſcribed to the
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              Earth, very ſolid; and becauſe I would not truſt my memory with
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              the punctual relation of them, I have brought back the Book
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              long with me.</s>
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