Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ficies of an oblique Cylinder, which hath for one of its baſes
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the ſaid annual circle, and for the other a like circle
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rily deſcribed by its extremity, or, (if you will) Pole, amongſt
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the Ecliptick, according to the inclination of the Axis that
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ſcribeth it, which we have ſaid to be 23 degrees and an half,
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the which continuing perpetually the ſame (ſave onely, that in
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many thouſands of years it maketh ſome very ſmall mutation,
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which nothing importeth in our preſent buſineſſe) cauſeth that
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the Terreſtrial Globe doth never more incline or elevate, but
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enſueth, that as to what pertaineth to the mutations to be
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ſerved in the fixed ſtars dependant on the ſole annual motion,
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the ſame ſhall happen to any point whatſoever of the Earths
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ſurface, as befalleth unto the centre of the Earth it ſelf; and
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therefore in the preſent explanations we will make uſe of the
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centre, as if it were any whatſoever point of the ſuperficies.
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the ſame in lineal figures: And firſt of all let us deſcribe in the
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Plane of the Ecliptick the circle A N B O [
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7.] and let
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us underſtand the points A and B, to be the extreams towards
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the North and South; that is, the beginning of [
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or entrance into
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Cancer
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or
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Capricorn,
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and let us prolong the Diameter A B,
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determinately by D and C towards the Starry Sphere. </
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now in the firſt place, that none of the fixed ſtars placed in the
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Ecliptick, ſhall ever vary elevation, by reaſon of any
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ever mutation made by the Earth along the ſaid Plane of the
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Ecliptick, but ſhall alwayes appear in the ſame ſuperficies,
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though the Earth ſhall approach and recede as great a ſpace as is
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that of the diameter of the Grand Orb, as may plainly be
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A or in B, the ſtar C alwayes appeareth in the ſame line A B C;
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although the diſtance B C, be leſſe than A C, by the whole
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diameter A B. </
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ſtar C, and in any other placed in the Ecliptick, is the
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mented or diminiſhed apparent magnitude, by reaſon of the
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proximation or receſſion of the Earth.</
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The annual
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tion made by the
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centre of the Earth
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under the
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tick and the
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nal motion made
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by the Earth about
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its own centre.
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The axis of the
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Earth continueth
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alwayes parallel to
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beth a
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cal ſuperficies,
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clining to the
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grand Orb.
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The Orb of the
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Earth never
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neth, but is
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mutably the ſame.
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The fixed ſtars
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placed in the
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cliptick never
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vate nor deſcend,
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on account of the
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annual motion, but
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yet approach and
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recede.
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ſcruple, which much troubleth me, and it is this: That the ſtar
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C may be ſeen by the ſame line A B C, as wel when the Earth
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is in A, as when it is in B, I underſtand very well, as alſo
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thermore I apprehend that the ſame would happen in all the
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points of the line A B, ſo long as the Earth ſhould paſſe from A
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to B by the ſaid line; but it paſſing thither, as is to be ſuppoſed,
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by the arch A N B, it is manifeſt that when it ſhall be in the </
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