Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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cauſes of the true concluſions obſerved by himſelf. </
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ſons (freely ſpeaking) do not knit and bind ſo faſt, as thoſe
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doubtedly ought to do, in that of natural, neceſſary, and laſting
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ceſſe of time this new Science will be perfected with new
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vations, and, which is more, with true and neceſſary
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tions. </
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diminiſhed, nor do I leſſe eſteem, but rather more admire, the
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Inventor of the Harp (although it may be ſuppoſed that the
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ſtrument at firſt was but rudely framed, and more rudely
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ed) than an hundred other Artiſts, that in the inſuing Ages
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ced that profeſſion to great perfection. </
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tiquity had very good reaſon to enumerate the firſt Inventors of
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the Noble Arts amongſt the Gods; ſeeing that the common wits
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have ſo little curioſity, and are ſo little regardful of rare and
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gant things, that though they ſee and hear them exercirated by
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the exquifite profeſſors of them, yet are they not thereby
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ſwaded to a deſire of learning them. </
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cities of this kind would ever have attempted to have found out
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the making of the Harp, or the invention of Muſick, upon the
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hint of the whiſtling noiſe of the dry ſinews of a Tortois, or
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from the ſtriking of four Hammers. </
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inventions moved by ſmall hints, and the thinking that under a
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primary and childiſh appearance admirable Arts may lie hid, is
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not the part of a trivial, but of a ſuper-humane ſpirit. </
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ſwering to your demands, I ſay, that I alſo have long thought
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upon what might poſſibly be the cauſe of this ſo tenacious and
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potent union, that we ſee to be made between the one Iron that
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armeth the Magnet, and the other that conjoyns it ſelf unto it.
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And firſt, we are certain, that the vertue and ſtrength of the ſtone
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doth not augment by being armed, for it neither attracts at
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greater diſtance, nor doth it hold an Iron the faſter, if between it,
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and the arming or cap, a very fine paper, or a leaf of beaten gold,
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be interpoſed; nay, with that interpoſition, the naked ſtone
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takes up more Iron than the armed. </
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ration in the vertue, and yet there is an innovation in the effect.
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And becauſe its neceſſary, that a new effect have a new cauſe, if
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it be inquired what novelty is introduced in the act of taking up
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with the cap or arming, there is no mutation to be diſcovered, but
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in the different contact; for whereas before Iron toucht
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ſtone, now Iron toucheth Iron. </
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clude, that the diverſity of contacts is the cauſe of the diverſity
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be derived from any thing elſe, ſave from that the ſubſtance of
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