Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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as one, that beſides your being born, and having, for a long
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time, dwelt in
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Venice,
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where the Tides are very notable for their
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greatneſſe, have alſo ſailed into
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Syria,
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and, as an ingenuous and
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apprehenſive wit, muſt needs have made many Obſervations
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on this ſubject: whereas I, that could onely for a time, and that
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very ſhort, obſerve what happened in theſe extream parts of the
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Adriatick
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Gulph, and in our Seas below about the
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Tyrrhene
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ſhores, muſt needs take many things upon the relation of
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thers, who, for the moſt part, not very well agreeing, and
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ſequently being very uncertain, contribute more of confuſion
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that we are ſure of, and which are the principal, I think I am
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ble to attain to the true and primary cauſes; not that I pretend
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to be able to produce all the proper and adequate reaſons of
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thoſe effects that are new unto me, and which conſequently I
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I propoſe only, as a key that openeth the door to a path never
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yet trodden by any, in certain hope, that ſome wits more
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lative than mine, will make a further progreſſe herin, and
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trate much farther than I ſhall have done in this my firſt
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very: And although that in other Seas, remote from us, there may
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happen ſeveral accidents, which do not happen in our
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ranean Sea, yet doth not this invalidate the reaſon and cauſe that
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I ſhall produce, if ſo be that it veriſie and fully reſolve the
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cidents which evene in our Sea: for that in concluſion there can
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be but one true and primary cauſe of the effects that are of the
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know to be true, and aſſigne the cauſes thereof that I think
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to be true, and you alſo, Gentlemen, ſhall produce ſuch
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others as are known to you, beſides mine, and then we will
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try whether the cauſe, by me alledged, may ſatisfie them
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Three Periods
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of ebbings and
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flowings, diurnal,
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monethly, and
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nual.
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>I therefore affirm the periods that are obſerved in the fluxes
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and refluxes of the Sea-waters to be three: the firſt and
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pal is this great and moſt obvious one; namely, the diurnal,
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ding to which the intervals of ſome hours with the waters flow and
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ebbe; and theſe intervals are, for the moſt part, in the
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rane from ſix hours to ſix hours, or thereabouts, that is, they for
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ſix hours flow, and for ſix hours ebbe. </
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monethly, and it ſeemes to take its origen from the motion of
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the Moon, not that it introduceth other motions, but only
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tereth the greatneſſe of thoſe before mentioned, with a notable
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difference, according as it ſhall wax or wane, or come to the
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Quadrature with the Sun. </
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ſeen to depend on the Sunne, and onely altereth the diurnal </
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