Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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verſe party may with as much reaſon reply, that thoſe are
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ous wherewith he collecteth the ſtar to have been in the
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Simplicius,
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if I could but make you comprehend
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the craft, though no great craftineſſe of this Author, I ſhould
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make you to wonder, and alſo to be angry to ſee how that he
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palliating his ſagacity with the vail of the ſimplicity of your ſelf;
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and the reſt of meer Philoſophers, would inſinuate himſelf into
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your good opinion, by tickling your cars, and ſwelling your
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bition, pretending to have convinced and ſilenced theſe petty
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Aſtronomers, who went about to aſſault the impregnable
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rability of the
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Peripatetick
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Heaven, and which is more, to have
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my ability to do the ſame; and in the mean time let
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Sagredus
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take it in good part, if
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Simplicius
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and I try his patience, perhaps
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a little too much, whilſt that with a ſuperfluous circumlocution
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(ſuperfluous I ſay to his moſt nimble apprehenſion) I go about to
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make out a thing, which it is not convenient ſhould be hid and
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unknown unto him.</
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much delight hearken to your diſcourſes; and ſo ought all
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tetick
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Philoſophers, to the end they may know how much they
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are oblieged to this their Protector.</
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Simplicius,
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whether you do well comprehend,
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how, the new ſtar being placed in the meridian circle yonder
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wards the North, the ſame to one that from the South ſhould
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go towards the North, would ſeem to riſe higher and higher
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bove the Horizon, as much as the Pole, although it ſhould have
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been ſcituate amongſt the fixed ſtars; but, that in caſe it were
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conſiderably lower, that is nearer to the Earth, it would appear
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to aſcend more than the ſaid pole, and ſtill more by how much
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its vicinity was greater?</
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ken whereof I will try if I can make a mathematical Scheme of
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it, and in this great circle
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I will
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marke the pole P; and in theſe two lower circles I will note two
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ſtars beheld from one place on the Earth, which let be A; and
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let the two ſtars be theſe B and C, beheld in the ſame line A B C,
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which line I prolong till it meet with a fixed ſtar in D. </
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walking along the Earth, till I come to the term E, the two
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ſtars will appear to me ſeparated from the fixed ſtar D, and
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vanced neerer to the pole P, and the lower ſtar B more, which
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will appear to me in G, and the ſtar C leſſe, which will ap
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pear to me in F, but the fixed ſtar D will have kept the ſame
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diſtance from the Pole.</
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