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

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              without encompaſſing the Earth; about the ſame Sun you make
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              the three ſuperiour Planets
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              Mars, Jupiter,
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              and
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              Saturn,
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              to move,
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              comprehending the Earth within their circles. </s>
              <s>The Moon in the
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              next place can move in no other manner than about the Earth,
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              without taking in the Sun, and in all theſe motions you agree alſo
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              with the ſame
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              Copernicus.
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              There remains now three things to be
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              decided between the Sun, the Earth, and fixed ſtars, namely,
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              Reſt, which ſeemeth to belong to the Earth; the annual motion
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              under the Zodiack, which appeareth to pertain to the Sun; and the
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              diurnal motion, which ſeems to belong to the Starry Sphere, and
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              to be by that imparted to all the reſt of the Univerſe, the Earth
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              excepted, And it being true that all the Orbs of the Planets, I
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              mean of
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              Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,
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              and
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              Saturn,
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              do move
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              about the Sun as their centre; reſt ſeemeth with ſo much more
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              reaſon to belong to the ſaid Sun, than to the Earth, in as much
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              as in a moveable Sphere, it is more reaſonable that the centre
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              ſtand ſtill, than any other place remote from the ſaid centre; to
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              the Earth therefore, which is conſtituted in the midſt of
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              able parts of the Univerſe, I mean between
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              Venus
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              and
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              Mars,
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              one
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              of which maketh its revolution in nine moneths, and the other in
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              two years, may the motion of a year very commodiouſly be
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              ſigned, leaving reſt to the Sun. </s>
              <s>And if that be ſo, it followeth
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              of neceſſary conſequence, that likewiſe the diurnal motion
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              longeth to the Earth; for, if the Sun ſtanding ſtill, the Earth
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              ſhould not revolve about its ſelf, but have onely the annual
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              tion about the Sun, our year would be no other than one day and
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              one night, that is ſix moneths of day, and ſix moneths of night,
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              as hath already been ſaid. </s>
              <s>You may conſider withal how
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              diouſly the precipitate motion of 24 hours is taken away from
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              the Univerſe, and the fixed ſtars that are ſo many Suns, are made
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              in conformity to our Sun to enjoy a perpetual reſt. </s>
              <s>You ſee
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              over what facility one meets with in this rough draught to render
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              the reaſon of ſo great appearances in the Celeſtial bodies.</s>
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              Reſt, the annual
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              motion and the
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              urnal ought to be
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              diſtributed
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              twixt the Sun,
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              Earth, and
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              mament.
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              In a moveable
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              ſphere, it ſeemeth
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              more veaſonable
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              that its centre be
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              ſtable, than any
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              ther of its parts.
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              Granting to the
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              Earth the annual,
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              it muſt of neceſſity
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              alſo have the
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              nal motion
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              ed to it.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I very well perceive that facility, but as you from this
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              ſimplicity collect great probabilities for the truth of that Syſtem,
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              others haply could make thence contrary deductions; doubting,
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              not without reaſon, why that ſame being the ancient Syſteme of
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              Pythagoreans,
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              and ſo well accommodated to the
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              Phænomena,
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              hath in the ſucceſſion of ſo many thouſand years had ſo few
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              lowers, and hath been even by
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              Ariſtotle
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              himſelf refuted, and
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              ſince that
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              Copernicus
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              himſelf hath had no better fortune.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>If you had at any time been aſſaulted, as I have been,
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              many and many a time, with the relation of ſuch kind of frivolous
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              reaſons, as ſerve to make the vulgar contumacious, and difficult to
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              be perſwaded to hearken, (I will not ſay to conſent) to this </s>
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