Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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follies of ſuch a ^{*} Fabler againſt
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light, and to be openly maintained without contradiction; but
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this alſo might be diſpenſed with, in reſpect of the other greater
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occaſions of laughter, wherewith we may confront them
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ing on the diſſimulation of the intelligent, touching the follies of
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theſe opponents of the Doctrines that they well enough
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* Lorenzini.</
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and the infelicity of a
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ſubject to be oppoſed by ſuch
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as underſtand not ſo much as the very firſt poſitions, upon which
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futing the
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who affirm the new Stars to be ſuperiour
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to the Orbs of the Planets; and peradventure in the ^{†} Firmament
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† He taketh the
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Firmament for the
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Starry Sphere, and
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as we vulgarly
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Book, which is ſo great a Volume, and muſt needs contain very
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many demonſtrations.?</
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which with twelve demonſtrations founded upon the obſervations
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of twelve
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Aſtronomers,
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(who all held, that the Star,
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which appeared in
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Caſſiopeia,
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was in the Firmament) he proveth it
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on the contrary, to be beneath the Moon, conferring, two by two,
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the meridian altitudes, proceeding in the method that you ſhall
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nation of this his firſt progreſſion, I have diſcovered in this
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thour a great unlikelihood of his ability to conclude any thing
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gainſt the
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Aſtronomers,
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in favour of the
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Peripatetick Philoſophers,
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and that their opinion is more and more concludently confirmed,
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I could not apply my ſelf with the like patience in examining his
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other methods, but have given a very ſlight glance upon them,
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and am certain, that the defect that is in theſe firſt impugnations,
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is likewiſe in the reſt. </
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few words will ſuffice to confute this whole Book, though
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led with ſo great a number of laborious calculations, as here you
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taketh, as I ſay, to wound his adverſaries with their own weapons,
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i.e.
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a great number of obſervations made by themſelves, to wit, by
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twelve or thirteen Authours in number, and upon part of them he
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makes his ſupputations, and concludeth thoſe ſtars to have been
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below the Moon. </
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ries very much pleaſeth me, in regard the Authour himſelf is not
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here, let
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anſwer me to the queſtions that I ſhall ask
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him, as he thinks he himſelf would, if he were preſent. </
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ſuppoſing that we ſpeak of the foreſaid Star, of
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