Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              point N, and in any other except thoſe two A and B, the ſaid
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              ſtar ſhall no longer be obſerved in the line A B; but in others.
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              <s>So that, if the appearing under ſeveral lines ought to cauſe
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              apparent mutations, ſome difference muſt needs appear in
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              this caſe. </s>
              <s>Nay more, I will ſpeak it with that Philoſophical
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              freedom, which ought to be allowed amongſt Philoſophick
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              friends, methinks that you, contradicting your ſelf, deny that
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              now, which but even now to our admiration, you proved to be
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              really true, and conſiderable; I mean that which happeneth in
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              the Planets, and particularly in the three ſuperiour ones, that
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              being conſtantly in the Ecliptick, or very near unto it, do not
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              onely ſhew themſelves one while near unto us, and another
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              while remote, but ſo deformed in their regular motions, that
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              they ſeem ſometimes immoveable, and ſometimes many
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              grees retrograde; and all upon no other occaſion than the
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              nual motion of the Earth.</s>
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              Objections againſt
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              the Earths annual
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              motion taken from
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              the fixed stars
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              placed in the
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              cliptick.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Though by a thouſand accidents I have been
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              fore aſſured of the wittineſſe of
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              Sagredus,
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              yet I had a deſire by
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              this one experiment more to aſcertain me of what I may expect
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              from his ingenuity, and all this for my own intereſt, for in caſe
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              my Propoſitions ſtand but proof againſt the hammer and
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              nace of his judgment, I ſhall be confident that they will abide
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              the ^{*} teſt of all Touch-ſtones. </s>
              <s>I ſay therefore that I had
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              poſely diſſembled this objection, but yet not with any intent to
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              deceive you, and to put any falſhood upon you, as it might
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              have happened if the objection by me diſguiſed, and by you
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              ver-lookt, had been the ſame in effect as it ſeemed to be in
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              pearance, that is, really valid and concluſive; but it is not ſo;
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              nay I rather ſuſpect that to try me, you make as if you did not
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              ſee its nullity. </s>
              <s>But I will herein be too hard for you, and force
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              from your tongue, that which you would ſo artificially conceal;
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              and therefore tell me, what that thing ſhould be, whereby you
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              come to know the ſtation and retrogradation of the Planets,
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              which is derived from the annual motion, aud which is ſo great,
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              that at leaſt ſome foot-ſteps of ſuch an effect ought to appear in
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              the ſtars of the Ecliptick?</s>
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              * Or will prove
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              of good alloy.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>This demand of yours containeth two queſtions, to
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              which it is neceſſary that I make reply; the firſt relates to the
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              imputation which you lay upon me of a Diſſembler; the other
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              concerneth that which may appear in the ſtars,
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              &c.
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              As to the
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              firſt, I will ſay with your permiſſion, that it is not true, that I
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              have diſſembled my knowing the nullity of that objection; and
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              to aſſure you of the ſame, I now tell you that I very well
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              ſtand the nullity thereof.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But yet I do not underſtand how it can be, that you </s>
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