Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ſome more ſublime intelligence. </
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ſhould tell me, that an immenſe ſpace interpoſed between the
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Orbs of the Planets and the Starry Sphere, deprived of ſtars and
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idle, would be vain and uſeleſſe, as likewiſe that ſo great an
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immenſity for receipt of the fixed ſtars, as exceeds our utmoſt
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comprehenſion would be ſuperfluous, I would reply, that it is
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raſhneſſe to go about to make our ſhallow reaſon judg of the
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Works of God, and to call vain and ſuperfluous, whatſoever
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thing in the Univerſe is not ſubſervient to us.</
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God & Nature
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do imploy
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ſelves in caring
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for men, as if they
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minded nothing
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An example of
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Gods care of
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kind taken from
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the Sun.
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we know not what is ſubſervient to us; and I hold it one of the
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greateſt vanities, yea follies, that can be in the World, to ſay,
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becauſe I know not of what uſe
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Jupiter
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or
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are to me, that
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therefore theſe Planets are ſuperfluous, yea more, that there are
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no ſuch things
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in rerum natura
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; when as, oh fooliſh man! I
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know not ſo much as to what purpoſe the arteries, the griſtles,
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the ſpleen, the gall do ſerve; nay I ſhould not know that I have
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a gall, ſpleen, or kidneys, if in many deſected Corps, they were
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not ſhewn unto me; and then onely ſhall I be able to know what
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the ſpleen worketh in me, when it comes to be taken from me.
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me (ſeeing you will have it that all their influences direct
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ſelves to us) it would be requiſite to remove that body for ſome
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time; and then whatſoever effect I ſhould find wanting in me, I
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would ſay that it depended on that ſtar. </
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ſume to ſay that the ſpace which they call too vaſt and uſeleſſe
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between
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Saturn
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and the fixed ſtars, is void of other mundane
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dies? </
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Medicean Planets, and the companions of
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came firſt
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to Heaven, when we began to ſee them, and not before? </
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by this rule the innumerable other fixed ſtars had no exiſtence
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before that men did look on them? </
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ons called
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Nebuloſœ
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were at firſt only white flakes, but afterwards
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with the Teleſcope we made them to become conſtellations of
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many lucid and bright ſtars. </
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ignorance of man!</
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It is great
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neſſe to cenſure
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that to be
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ous in the Univerſe,
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which we do not
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perceive to be made
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for us.
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By depriving
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Heaven of ſome
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ſtar, one might
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come to know what
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influence it hath
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Many things
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may be in Heauen,
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that are inviſible
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Sagredus,
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to ſally out any more into
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theſe unprofitable exaggerations: Let us purſue our intended
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deſigne of examining the validity of the reaſons alledged on
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ther ſide, without determining any thing, remitting the
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ment thereof when we have done, to ſuch as are more knowing.
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ſay, that great, little, immenſe, ſmall,
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are not abſolute,
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but relative terms, ſo that the ſelf ſame thing compared with
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divers others, may one while be called immenſe, and another </
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