Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ty, I believe that you wonder at the paucity of thoſe who are
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lowers of that opinion would be much diminiſhed. </
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gard in my judgement, ought to be had of ſuch thick ſculs, as think
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it a moſt convincing proof to confirm, and ſteadfaſtly ſettle them
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in the belief of the earths immobility, to ſee that if this day they
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cannot Dine at
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Conſtantinople,
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nor Sup in
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that then the
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Earth as being a moſt grave body cannot clamber above the Sun,
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and then ſlide headlong down again; Of ſuch as theſe I ſay,
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whoſe number is infinite, we need not make any reckoning, nor
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need we to record their foolieries, or to ſtrive to gain to our ſide
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as our partakers in ſubtil and ſublime opinions, men in whoſe
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finition the kind onely is concerned, and the difference is wanting.
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with all the demonſtrations of the World upon brains ſo ſtupid,
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as are not able of themſelves to know their down right follies? </
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my admiration,
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Sagredus,
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is very different from yours, you
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der that ſo few are followers of the
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Pythagorean
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Opinion; and I
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am amazed how there could be any yet left till now that do
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brace and follow it: Nor can I ſufficiently admire the eminencie of
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thoſe mens wits that have received and held it to be true, and with
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the ſprightlineſſe of their judgements offered ſuch violence to their
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own ſences, as that they have been able to prefer that which their
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reaſon dictated to them, to that which ſenſible experiments
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preſented moſt manifeſtly on the contrary. </
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the Diurnal virtiginous revolution of the Earth by you already
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amined, do carry great probability with them, we have already
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ſeen; as alſo that the
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Ptolomaicks,
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Ariſtotelicks,
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with all their
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Sectators did receive them for true, is indeed a very great argument
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of their efficacie; but thoſe experiments which apertly contradict
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the annual motion, are of yet ſo much more manifeſtly repugnant,
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that (I ſay it again) I cannot find any bounds for my admiration,
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how that reaſon was able in
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Ariſtarchus
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Copernicus,
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to
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mìt ſuch a rape upon their Sences, as in deſpight thereof, to make
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her ſelf miſtreſs of their credulity.</
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Diſcourſes more
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than childiſh, ſerve
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to keep fools in the
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opinion of the
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Earths ſtability.
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A declaration
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Copernicus
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his opinion.
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Reaſons and
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courſe in
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prevailed over
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manifeſt ſence.
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ſence more ſublime and excellent than thoſe common and vulgar,
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did not take part with reaſon, I much fear, that I alſo ſhould have
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been much more averſe to the
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Copernican
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Syſteem than I have been
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ſince the time that a clearer lamp than ordinary hath enlightned
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Salviatus,
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let us come to joyn battail
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for every word that is ſpent on any thing elſe, I take to be caſt
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