Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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abundance, and therefore more grave, drive back the Waters
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of leſſe depth, which being afterwards raiſed, deſire to
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ſcend, and from this continual colluctation or conteſt proceeds
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the ebbing and flowing. </
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Moon are many, ſaying that ſhe hath particular Dominion over
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the Water; and at laſt a certain Prelate hath publiſhed a little
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Treatiſe, wher in he ſaith that the Moon wandering too and
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fro in the Heavens attracteth and draweth towards it a Maſſe of
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Water, which goeth continually following it, ſo that it is full Sea
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alwayes in that part which lyeth under the Moon; and becauſe,
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that though ſhe be under the Horizon, yet nevertheleſſe the Tide
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returneth, he ſaith that no more can be ſaid for the ſalving of that
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particular, ſave onely, that the Moon doth not onely naturally
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retain this faculty in her ſelf; but in this caſe hath power to
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fer it upon that degree of the Zodiack that is oppoſite unto it.
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with her temperate heat to rarefie the Water, which being
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The cauſe of the
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abbing and flowing
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alledged by a
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tain modern
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loſopher.
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The cauſe of
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the ebbing and
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flowing aſcribed to
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the Moon by a
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certain Prelate.
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Hieronymus
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and other
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ripateticks
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refer it
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to the temperate
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heat of the Moon.
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Simplicius
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let us hear no more of them,
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for I do not think it is worth the while to waſt time in relating
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them, or to ſpend our breath in confuting them; and for your
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part, if you gave your aſſent to any of theſe or the like
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ries, you did a great injury to your judgment, which
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leſſe I acknowledg to be very piercing.</
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Sagre-
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dus,
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will ſpend a few words in favour of
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Simplicius,
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if haply
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he thinks that any probability is to be found in thoſe things that
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that
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have their exteriour ſuperficies higher, repel thoſe that are
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riour to them, and lower; but ſo do not thoſe Waters that are
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of greateſt profundity; and the higher having once driven back
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the lower, they in a ſhort time grow quiet and ^{*} level. </
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muſt needs be of an opinion, that all the Lakes
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in the World that are in a calme, and that all the Seas where
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the ebbing and flowing is inſenſible, are level in their bottoms;
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but I was ſo ſimple, that I perſwaded my ſelf that had we no
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ther plummet to ſound with, the Iſles that advance ſo high
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bove Water, had been a ſufficient evidence of the unevenneſſe
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of their bottomes. </
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runneth every day along the whole Mediterrane, and yet its
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Waters do not riſe thereupon ſave onely in the very extream
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bounds of it Eaſtward, and here to us at
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Venice.
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And for thoſe
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that make the Moons temperate heat able to make the Water
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ſwell, bid them put fire under a Kettle full of Water, and hold </
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