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

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              ſpake not friendly, when you ſaid you did not know that ſame
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              fallacy which you now confeſſe that you know very well.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>The very confeſſion of knowing it may aſſure you
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              that I did not diſſemble, when I ſaid that I did not underſtand it;
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              for if I had had a mind, and would diſſemble, who could
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              der me from continuing in the ſame ſimulation, and denying ſtill
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              that I underſtand the fallacy? </s>
              <s>I ſay therefore that I underſtood
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              not the ſame, at that time, but that I do now at this preſent
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              prehend it, for that you have prompted my intellect, firſt by
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              telling me reſolutely that it is
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              null,
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              and then by beginning to
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              queſtion me ſo at large what thing that might be, whereby I
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              might come to know the ſtation and retrogradation of the
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              nets; and becauſe this is known by comparing them with the
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              ed ſtars, in relation to which, they are ſeen to vary their
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              tions, one while towards the Weſt, and another towards the
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              Eaſt, and ſometimes to abide immoveable; and becauſe there
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              is not any thing above the Starry Sphere, immenſely more remote
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              from us, and viſible unto us, wherewith we may compare our
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              fixed ſtars, therefore we cannot diſcover in the fixed ſtars any
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              foot-ſteps of what appeareth to us in the Planets. </s>
              <s>This I believe
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              is the ſubſtance of that which you would force from me.</s>
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              The ſtation,
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              rection and
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              gradation of the
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              Planets is known,
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              in relation to the
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              fixed ſtars.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It is ſo, with the addition moreover of your
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              rable ingenuity; and if with half a word I did open your eyes,
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              you by the like have remembred me that it is not altogether
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              poſſible, but that ſometime or other ſomething obſervable may
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              be found amongſt the fixed ſtars, by which it may be gathered
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              wherein the annual converſion reſides, ſo as that they alſo no
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              leſſe than the Planets and Sun it ſelf, may appear in judgment to
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              bear witneſſe of that motion, in favour of the Earth; for I do not
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              think that the ſtas are ſpread in a ſpherical ſuperficies equally
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              mote from a common centre, but hold, that their diſtances from
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              us are ſo various, that ſome of them may be twice and thrice as
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              remote as others; ſo that if with the Teleſcope one ſhould
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              ſerve a very ſmall ſtar neer to one of the bigger, and which
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              therefore was very exceeding high, it might happen that ſome
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              ſenſible mutation might fall out between them, correſpondent
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              to that of the ſuperiour Planets. </s>
              <s>And ſo much ſhall ſerve to have
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              ſpoken at this time touching the ſtars placed in the Ecliptick.
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              Let us now come to the fixed ſtars, placed out of the Ecliptick,
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              and let us ſuppoſe a great circle erect upor [
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              i. </s>
              <s>e. </s>
              <s>at right angles
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              to
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              ] the Plane of the ^{*} ſame; and let it, for example, be a cir­
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              cle that in the Starry Sphere anſwers to the Solſtitial Colure,
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              and let us mark it C E H [
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              in Fig.
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              8.] which ſhall happen to be
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              withal a Meridian, and in it we will take a ſtar without the
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              tick, which let be E. </s>
              <s>Now this ſtar will indeed vary its </s>
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