Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I muſt confeſſe that all that which
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              Salviatus
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              hath
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              ken is new unto me, for truth is, I never have had the curioſity to
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              read thoſe Books, nor have I hitherto given any great credit to
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              the Teleſcope newly introduced; rather treading in the ſteps of
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              ther
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              Peripatetick
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              Philoſophers my companions, I have thought
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              thoſe things to be fallacies and deluſions of the Chryſtals, which
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              others have ſo much admired for ſtupendious operations: and
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              therefore if I have hitherto been in an errour, I ſhall be glad to be
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              freed from it, and allured by theſe novelties already heard from
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              you, I ſhall the more attentively hearken to the reſt.</s>
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              The operations of
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              the Teleſcope
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              counted fallacies by
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              the
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              Peripateticks.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The confidence that theſe men have in their own
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              prehenſiveneſſe, is no leſs unreaſonable than the ſmall eſteem they
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              have of the judgment of others: yet its much that they ſhould
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              ſteem themſelves able to judge better of ſuch an inſtrument,
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              out ever having made trial of it, than thoſe who have made, and
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              daily do make a thouſand experiments of the ſame: But I pray
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              you, let us leave this kind of pertinacious men, whom we
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              not ſo much as tax without doing them too great honour. </s>
              <s>And
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              turning to our purpoſe, I ſay, that reſplendent objects, whether
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              it is that their light doth refract on the humidity that is upon the
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              pupils, or that it doth reflect on the edges of the eye-browes,
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              fuſing its reflex rayes upon the ſaid pupils, or whether it is for ſome
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              other reaſon, they do appear to our eye, as if they were environ'd
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              with new rayes, and therefore much bigger than their bodies
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              would repreſent themſelves to us, were they diveſted of thoſe
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              radiations. </s>
              <s>And this aggrandizement is made with a greater and
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              greater proportion, by how much thoſe lucid objects are leſſer and
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              leſſer; in the ſame manner for all the world, as if we ſhould
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              poſe that the augmentation of ſhining locks were
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              v.g.
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              four inches,
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              which addition being made about a circle that hath four inches
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              ameter would increaſe its appearance to nine times its former
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              neſſe: but---------</s>
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              Shining objects
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              ſeem environed
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              with adventitious
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              rayes.
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              The reaſon why
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              luminous bodies
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              pear enlarged
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              much the more, by
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              how much they are
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              leſſer.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I believe you would have ſaid three times; for adding
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              four inches to this ſide, and four inches to that ſide of the
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              ter of a circle, which is like wiſe four inches, its quantity is
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              by tripled, and not made nine times bigger.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>A little more
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              Geometry
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              would do well,
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              Simplicius.
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              True it is, that the diameter is tripled, but the ſuperficies, which is
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              that of which we ſpeak, increaſeth nine times: for you muſt know,
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              Simplicius,
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              that the ſuperficies of circles are to one another, as
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              the ſquares of their diameters; and a circle that hath four inches
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              diameter is to another that hath twelve, as the ſquare of four to
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              the ſquare of twelve; that is, as 16. is to 144 and therefore it ſhall
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              be increaſed nine times, and not three; this, by way of
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              ment to
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              Simplicius.
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              And proceeding forwards, if we ſhould add </s>
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