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

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              ſeperate from the Earth, for the reaſons that ſhall be more
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              ly alledged hereafter.</s>
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              The mutation
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              of figure in
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              Venus
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              argueth its motion
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              to be about the Sun.
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              The Moon
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              not ſeperate from
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              the Earth.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I expect that I ſhall hear more admirable things that
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              depend upon this annual motion of the Earth, than were thoſe
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              dependant upon the diurnal
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              The annual
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              tion of the Earth
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              mixing with the
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              motions of the
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              ther Planets
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              duce extravagant
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              appearances.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You do not therein erre: For as to the operation of
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              the diurnal motion upon the Celeſtial bodies, it neither was, nor
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              can be other, than to make the Univerſe ſeem to run precipitately
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              the contrary way; but this annual motion intermixing with the
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              particular motions of all the planets, produceth very many
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              travagancies, which have diſarmed and non-pluſt all the greateſt
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              Scholars in the World. </s>
              <s>But returning to our firſt general
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              henſions, I reply that the centre of the Celeſtial converſions of
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              the five planets
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              Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus
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              and
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              Mercury,
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              is
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              the Sun; and ſhall be likewiſe the centre of the motion of the
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              Earth, if we do but ſucceed in our attempt of placing it in
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              ven. </s>
              <s>And as for the Moon, this hath a circular motion about the
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              Earth, from which (as I ſaid before) it can by no means alienate
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              it ſelf, but yet doth it not ceaſe to go about the Sun together with
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              the Earth in an annual motion.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I do not as yet very well apprehend this ſtructure, but
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              it may be, that with making a few draughts thereof, one may
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              ter and more eaſily diſcourſe concerning the ſame.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Tis very true: yea for your greater ſatisfaction and
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              miration together, I deſire you, that you would take the pains
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              to draw the ſame; and to ſee that although you think you do not
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              apprehend it, yet you very perfectly underſtand it; And onely
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              by anſwering to my interrogations you ſhall deſigne it punctually. </s>
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              Take therefore a ſheet of paper and Compaſles; And let this
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              white paper be the immenſe expanſion of the Univerſe; in which
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              you are to diſtribute and diſpoſe its parts in order, according as
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              reaſon ſhall direct you. </s>
              <s>And firſt, in regard that without my
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              ſtruction you verily believe that the Earth is placed in this
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              verſe, therefore note a point at pleaſure, about which you
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              tend it to to be placed, and mark it with ſome characters.</s>
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              The Syſteme of
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              the Univerſe
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              ſigned from the
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              pearances.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Let this mark A be the place of the Terreſtrial Globe.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Very well. </s>
              <s>I know ſecondly, that you underſtand
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              fectly that the ſaid Earth is not within the body of the Sun, nor
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              ſo much as contiguous to it, but diſtant for ſome ſpace from the
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              ſame, and therefore aſſign to the Sun what other place you beſt
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              like, as remote from the Earth as you pleaſe, and mark this in
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              like manner.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Here it is done: Let the place of the Solar body
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              be O.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Theſe two being conſtituted, I deſire that we may </s>
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