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

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              and diſtant from it a yard or thereabouts. </s>
              <s>This being placed, I
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              will ſeek in the Plain the place from whence one of the ſtars of
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              Charls's
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              Waine, in paſſing by the Meridian, cometh to hide it
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              ſelf behind the beam ſo placed, or in caſe the beam ſhould not
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              be ſo big as to hide the ſtar, I will finde a ſtation where one
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              may ſee the ſaid beam to cut the ſaid ſtar into two equal parts;
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              an effect that with an ^{*} exquiſite Teleſcope may be perfectly
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              diſcerned. </s>
              <s>And if in the place where the ſaid accident is
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              ed, there were ſome building, it will be the more commodious;
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              but if not, I will cauſe a Pole to be ſtuck very faſt in the
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              ground, with ſome ſtanding mark to direct where to place the
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              eye anew, when ever I have a mind to repeat the obſervation.
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              <s>The firſt of which obſervations I will make about the Summer
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              Solſtice, to continue afterwards from Moneth to Moneth, or
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              when I ſhall ſo pleaſe, to the other Solſtice; with which
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              vation one may diſcover the elevation and depreſſion of the ſtar,
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              though it be very ſmall. </s>
              <s>And if in that operation it ſhall
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              pen, that any mutation ſhall diſcover it ſelf, what and how great
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              benefit will it bring to Aſtronomy? </s>
              <s>Seeing that thereby, beſides
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              our being aſſured of the annual motion, we may come to know
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              the grandure and diſtance of the ſame ſtar.</s>
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              What
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              ments are apt for
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              moſt exact
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              vation.
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              * Italian braces.</s>
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              An exquiſite
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              obſervation of the
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              approach and
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              parture of the Sun
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              from the Summer
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              Solſtice.
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              A place
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              modated for the
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              obſervation of the
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              fixed ſtars, as to
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              what concers the
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              annual motion of
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              the Earth.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I very well comprehend your whole proceedings;
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              and the operation ſeems to me ſo eaſie, and ſo commodious for
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              the purpoſe, that it may very rationally be thought, that either
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              Copernicus
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              himſelf, or ſome other Aſtronomer had made trial
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              of it.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But I judg the quite contrary, for it is not probable,
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              that if any one had experimented it, he would not have
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              tioned the event, whether it fell out in favour of this, or that
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              opinion; beſides that, no man that I can find, either for this,
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              or any other end, did ever go about to make ſuch an
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              on; which alſo without an exact Teleſcope could but badly be
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              effected.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I am fully ſatisfied with what you ſay. </s>
              <s>But ſeeing
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              that it is a great while to night, if you defire that I ſhall paſſe
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              the ſame quietly, let it not be a trouble to you to explain unto
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              us thoſe Problems, the declaration whereof you did even now
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              requeſt might be deferred until too morrow. </s>
              <s>Be pleaſed to grant
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              us your promiſed indulgence, and, laying aſide all other
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              ſes, proceed to ſhew us, that the motions which
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              Copernicus
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              aſſigns
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              to the Earth being taken for granted, and ſuppoſing the Sun
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              and fixed ſtars immoveable, there may follow the ſame
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              dents touching the elevations and depreſſions of the Sun,
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              ing the mutations of the Seaſons, and the inequality of dayes
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              and nights,
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              &c.
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              in the ſelf ſame manner, juſt as they are with </s>
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