Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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the motions of the Solar ſpots, it ſeemeth really that ſuch an
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Hypotheſis ought not to be rejected.</
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If the Earth be
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ack, there muſt be
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aſcribed to the Sun
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four ſeveral
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ons, as is declared
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is all that came into the minds of our friend,
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and my ſelf, that could be alledged in explanation of this
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Copernicans,
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and by the
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Ptolomæans,
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portant a deciſion: And, as to my particular thoughts, I will
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ſtand neutral; and yet nevertheleſſe I hope that a time will
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come, when our minds being illumin'd by more lofty
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tions than theſe our humane reaſonings, we ſhall be awakened
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and freed from that miſt which now is ſo great an hinderance to
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our ſight.</
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cius,
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and worthy to be entertained and followed by all, as that
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which being derived from the higheſt wiſdome and ſupreameſt
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authority, may onely, with ſecurity be received. </
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as humane reaſon is permitted to penetrate, confining my ſelf
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within the bounds of conjectures, and probable reaſons, I will
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ſay a little more reſolutely than
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Simplicius
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doth, that amongſt
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all the ingenuous ſubtilties I ever heard, I have never met with
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any thing of greater admiration to my intellect, nor that hath
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more abſolutely captivated my judgment, (alwayes excepting
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pure Geometrical and Arithmetical Demonſtrations) than theſe
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two conjectures taken, the one from the ſtations and
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tions of the five Planets, and the other from theſe irregularities of
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the motions of the Solar ſpots: and becauſe they ſeem to me ſo
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eaſily and clearly to aſſign the true reaſon of ſo extravagant
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pearances, ſhewing as if they were but one ſole ſimple motion,
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mixed with ſo many others, ſimple likewiſe, but different from
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each other, without introducing any difficulty, rather with
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ating thoſe that accompany the other Hypotheſis; I am
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ing that I may rationally conclude, that thoſe who
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ouſly withſtand this Doctrine, either never heard, or never
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derſtood, theſe ſo convincing arguments.</
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vincing, or non-convincing; in regard my intention is not, as I
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have ſeveral times told you, to reſolve any thing upon ſo high a
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queſtion, but onely to propoſe thoſe natural and Aſtronomicall
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reaſons, which, for the one and other Syſteme, may be produced
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by me, leaving the determination to others; which
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on cannot at laſt, but be very manifeſt: for one of the two
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tions being of neceſſity to be true, and the other of neceſſity to
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