Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ture, and which is, in a word, the habitation of all animals, and
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the womb of all vegetables?</
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our Globe.</
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>But in this you do, in my judgment, affirm that which
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is not right: for this Earth which is broke up, is ſowed, and is
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fertile, is but one part, and that very ſmall of the ſurface of the
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Globe, which doth not go very deep, yea, its depth is very ſmall,
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in compariſon of the diſtance to the centre: and experience
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ſheweth us, that one ſhall not dig very low, but one ſhall finde
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matters very different from this exteriour ſcurf, more ſolid, and
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not good for the production of vegetables. </
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parts, as being compreſſed by very huge weights that lie upon
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them, are, in all probability, ſlived, and made as hard as any
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hard rock. </
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vain conferred upon thoſe matters which never were deſigned to
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bear fruit, but to reſt eternally buried in the profound and dark
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abyſſes of the Earth.</
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and near to the centre are unfruitful? </
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have their productions of things unknown to us?</
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as being very capable to comprehend, that if the integral bodies
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of the Univerſe be produced onely for the benefit of Mankind,
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this above all the reſt ought to be deſtin d to the ſole
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ces of us its inhabitants. </
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matters ſo hid and remote from us, as that we ſhall never be
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ble to make uſe of them? </
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this our Globe cannot be a matter frangible, diſſipable, and
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coherent, like this ſuperficial part which we call ^{*} EARTH: but
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it muſt, of neceſſity, be a moſt denſe and ſolid body, and in a
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word, a moſt hard ſtone. </
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is there that ſhould make you more ſcrupulous to believe that it
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is a Loadſtone than a Porphiry, a Jaſper, or other hard
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Gilbert
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had written, that this Globe is all
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pounded within of ^{*}
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Pietra Serena,
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or of
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Chalcedon,
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the paradox
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would have ſeemed to you leſſe exorbitant?</
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The interne parts
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of the terreſtrial
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Globe muſt of
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ceſſity be ſolid.
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* Or MOULD.</
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Of which with
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the Latin
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tour, I muſt once
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more profeſſe my
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ſelf ignorant.</
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compreſſed, and ſo more ſlived together and ſolid, and more
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and more ſo, according as they lie lower, I do grant, and ſo
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likewiſe doth
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Ariſtotle,
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but that they degenerate and become
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other than Earth, of the ſame ſort with this of the ſuperficial
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parts, I ſee nothing that obliege h me to believe.</
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demonſtratively that the primary and real ſubſtance of this our </
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