Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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think of accomodating the body of
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Venus
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its ſtate and motion may agree with what ſenſible experiments do
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paſt diſcourſes, or your own obſervations you have learnt to
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fal that ſtar, and afterwards aſſign unto it that ſtate which you
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expreſſed by you, and
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which I have likewiſe read in the little treatiſe of Concluſions, to
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be true, namely, that that ſtar never recedes from the Sun beyond
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ſuch a determinate ſpace of 40 degrees or thereabouts, ſo as that
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it never cometh either to appoſition with the Sun, or ſo much as
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to quadrature, or yet to the ſextile aſpect; and more than that,
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ſuppoſing that it ſheweth at one time almoſt 40 times greater than
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at another; namely, very great, when being retrograde, it goeth to
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the veſpertine conjnnction of the Sun, and very ſmall when with a </
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