Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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greſſe I make is not
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in plano,
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but about the circumference of the
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Terreſtrial Globe, which at every ſtep changeth inclination in
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reſpect to Heaven, and conſequently maketh the ſame change
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in the Inſtrument which is erected upon the ſame.</
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how much the bigger that circle ſhall be upon which you move,
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ſo many more miles you are to walk, to make the ſaid ſtar to
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riſe that ſame degree higher; and that ſinally if the motion
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wards the ſtar ſhould be in a right line, you ought to move yet
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farther, than if it were about the circumference of never ſo
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great a
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The right line,
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and circumference
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of an infinite
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cle, are the ſame
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thing.
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circle, and a right line are the ſame thing.</
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Simplicius
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apprehend the ſame; and it muſt needs be concealed
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from us under ſome miſtery, for we know that
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Salviatus
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never
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ſpeaks at random, nor propoſeth any Paradox, which doth not
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break forth into ſome conceit, not trivial in the leaſt. </
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in due time and place I will put you in mind to demonſtrate this,
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that the right line is the ſame with the circumference of an
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nite circle, but at preſent I am unwilling that we ſhould
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rupt the diſcourſe in hand. </
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poſe to the conſideration of
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Simplicius,
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how the acceſſion and
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receſſion that the Earth makes from the ſaid fixed ſtar which is
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neer the Pole can be made as it were by a right line, for ſuch is
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the Diameter of the Grand Orb, ſo that the attempting to
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gulate the elevation and depreſſion of the Polar ſtar by the
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tion along the ſaid Diameter, as if it were by the motion about
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the little circle of the Earth, is a great argument of but little
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judgment.</
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ſaid ſmall mutation that ſhould be therein, would not be
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ned; and if this be
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null,
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then muſt the annual motion about
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the Grand Orb aſcribed to the Earth, be
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alſo.</
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Salviatus
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leave to go on, who as I
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believe will not overpaſſe the elevation and depreſſion of the
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Polar ſtar or any other of thoſe that are fixed as
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null,
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although
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not diſcovered by any one, and affirmed by
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Copernicus
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himſelf
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to be, I will not ſay
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null,
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but unobſervable by reaſon of its
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minuity.</
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any one did ever ſet himſelf to obſerve, whether in different times
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of the year there is any mutation to be ſeen in the fixed ſtars, that
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may have a dependance on the annual motion of the Earth, and
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added withal, that I doubted leaſt haply ſome might never have </
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