Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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within the limits of humane doctrine) the reaſons alledged for
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the true Hypotheſis ſhould not manifeſt themſelves as concludent
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as thoſe for the contrary vain and ineffectual.</
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Concluſions,
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* I ſhould have
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thour is
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and its title
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quiſitiones
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thematicæ.
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thor firſt briefly deſcribeth the Syſteme of the world, according
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to the Hypotheſis of
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Copernicus,
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ſaying,
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Terram igitur unà cum
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Luna, totoque hoc elementari mundo
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Copernicus, &c.</
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Simplicius,
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for methinks that this
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Authour, in this firſt entrance, ſhews himſelf to be but very ill
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verſt in the Hypotheſis which he goeth about to confute, in
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gard, he ſaith that
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Copernicus
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maketh the Earth, together with
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the Moon, to deſcribe the ^{*} grand Orb in a year moving from
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Eaſt to Weſt; a thing that as it is falſe and impoſſible, ſo was it
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never affirmed by
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who rather maketh it to move the
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contrary way, I mean from Weſt to Eaſt, that is, according to
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the order of the Signes; whereupon we come to think the ſame
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to be the annual motion of the Sun, conſtituted immoveable in
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of this man; to undertake the confutation of anothers Doctrine,
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and yet to be ignorant of the primary fundamentals; upon which
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his adverſary layeth the greateſt and moſt important part of all
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the Fabrick. </
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with his Reader; but let us go on.</
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to propound his objections againſt this annual motion: and
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the firſt are theſe, which he citeth Ironically, and in deriſion of
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Copernicus,
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and of his followers, writing that in this phantaſtical
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Hypotheſis of the World one muſt neceſſarily maintain very
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groſſe abſurdities; namely, that the Sun,
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Venus,
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Mercury
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are below the Earth; and that grave matters go naturally
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wards, and the light downwards; and that
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Chriſt,
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our Lord and
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Redeemer, aſcended into Hell, and deſcended into Heaven, when
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Joſhuah
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manded the Sun to ſtand ſtill, the Earth ſtood ſtill, or the Sun
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moved a contrary way to that of the Earth; and that when the
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Sun is in
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Cancer,
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the Earth runneth through
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Capricorn
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Hyemal
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(or Winter) Signes make the Summer, and the
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Æſtival
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Winter; and that the Stars do not riſe and ſet to
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the Earth, but the Earth to the Stars; and that the Eaſt
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neth in the Weſt, and the Weſt in the Eaſt; and, in a word,
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that almoſt the whole courſe of the World is inverted.</
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Inſtances of a
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certain Book
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