Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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>12. And upon the obſervations of
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Munoſius
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Vrſinus
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and the di-ſtance from the centre cometh forth leſſe than</
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>Theſe are twelve indagations made by the Author at his
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on, amongſt many which, as he ſaith, might be made by
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ning the obſervations of theſe thirteen obſervators. </
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twelve we may believe to be the moſt favourable to prove his
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intention.</
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dagations pretermitted by the Author, there were not ſome that
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made againſt him, that is, from which calculating one might find
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the new ſtar to have been above the Moon, as at the very firſt
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ſight I think we may reaſonably queſtion; in regard I ſee theſe
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already produced to be ſo different from one another, that ſome
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of them give me the diſtance of the ſaid ſtar from the Earth, 4, 6,
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10, 100, a thouſand, and an hundred thouſand times bigger one
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than another; ſo that I may well ſuſpect that amongſt thoſe that
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he did not calculate, there was ſome one in fauour of the adverſe
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party. </
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not conceive that thoſe Aſtronomers the obſervators could want
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the knowledg and practice of theſe computations, which I think
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do not depend upon the abſtruceſt things in the World. </
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deed it will ſeem to me a thing more than miraculous, if whilſt in
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theſe twelve inveſtigations onely, there are ſome that make the
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ſtar to be diſtant from the Earth but a few miles, and others that
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make it to be but a very fmall matter below the Moon, there are
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none to be found that in favour of the contrary part do make it
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ſo much as twenty yards above the Lunar Orb. </
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ſhall be yet again more extravagant, that all thoſe Aſtronomers
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ſhould have been ſo blind as not to have diſcovered that their ſo
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apparent miſtake.</
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admiration to what exceſſes of confidence of ones own authority
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and others folly, the deſire of contradicting and ſhewing ones
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ſelf wiſer than others, tranſports a man. </
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tions omitted by the Author, there are ſuch to be found as make
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the new ſtar not onely above the Moon, but above the fixed
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ſtars alſo. </
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>And theſe are not a few, but the greater part, as you
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ſhall ſee in this other paper, where I have ſet them down.</
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not think of them?</
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the obſervations upon which the calculations make the ſtar to be
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infinitely remote, are erroneous, and that they cannot be
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bined to one another.</
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