Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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Starry Orb: “And indeed in my opinion this Authour very
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pertinently queſtioneth and asketh: To what end, and
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for whoſe ſake are ſuch huge machines made? </
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produced for the Earth, for an inconſiderable point? </
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why ſo remote? </
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and might have no influence at all upon the Earth? </
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ground that are not upheld by probable reaſons.”</
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Inſtances of the
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Concluſions by way
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of interrogation.
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that one may collect, that in caſe the Heavens, the Stars, and
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the quantity of their diſtances and magnitudes which he hath
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hitherto held, be let alone, (although he never certainly fancied
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to himſelf any conceivable magnitude thereof) he perfectly
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cerns and comprehends the benefits that flow from thence to the
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Earth, which is no longer an inconſiderable thing; nor are they
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any longer ſo remote as to appear ſo very ſmall, but big enough to
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be able to operate on the Earth; and that the diſtance between
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them and
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is very well proportioned, and that he, for all
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theſe things, hath very probable reaſons; of which I would
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ly have heard ſome one: but being that in theſe few words he
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confounds and contradicts himſelf, it maketh me think that he
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is very poor and ill furniſhed with thoſe probable reaſons, and
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that thoſe which he calls reaſons, are rather fallacies, or dreams
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of an over-weening fancy. </
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leſtial bodies truly operate on the Earth, and whether for the
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working of thoſe effects they were produced of ſuch and ſuch
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magnitudes, and diſpoſed at ſuch and ſuch diſtances, or elſe
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whether they have nothing at all to do with Terrene mattets. </
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they have nothing to do with the Earth; it is a great folly for us
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that are Earth-born, to offer to make our ſelves arbitrators of
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their magnitudes, and regulators of their local diſpoſitions,
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ing that we are altogether ignorant of their whole buſineſſe and
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concerns; but if he ſhall ſay that they do operate, and that they
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are directed to this end, he doth affirm the ſame thing which a
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little before he denied, and praiſeth that which even now he
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condemned, in that he ſaid, that the Celeſtial bodies ſituate ſo
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far remote as that they appear very ſmall, cannot have any
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fluence at all upon the Earth. </
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pre-eſtabliſhed at its preſent diſtance, and which you did
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knowledg to be in your judgment, well proportioned to have an
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influence upon theſe Terrene bodies, many ſtars appear very
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ſmall, and an hundred times as many more are wholly inviſible
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unto us (which is an appearing yet leſſe than very ſmall)
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therefore it is neceſſary that (contradicting your ſelf) you do </
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