Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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>SIMP. </
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>I will run to a Miracle ſtill, if you do not with ſome
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other natural cauſes, beſides that of the motion of the Veſſels of
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the Sea-water diſſwade me from it; for I know that thoſe Veſſels
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move not, in regard that all the entire Terreſtrial Globe is
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rally immoveable.</
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ſupernaturally, that is, by the abſolute power of God, be made
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moveable? </
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ſeeing that to make the flux and
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reflux of the Sea, it is neceſſary to introduce a Miracle, let us
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ſuppoſe the Earth to move miraculouſly, upon the motion of
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which the Sea moveth naturally: and this effect ſhall be alſo the
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more ſimple, and I may ſay natural, amongſt the miraculous
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perations, in that the making a Globe to move round, of which
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kind we ſee many others to move, is leſſe difficult than to make
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an immenſe maſſe of water go forwards and backwards, in one
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place more ſwiftly, and in another leſſe, and to riſe and fall in
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ſome places more; in ſome leſſe, and in ſome not at all: and to
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work all theſe different effects in one and the ſame Veſſel that
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containeth it: beſides, that theſe are ſeveral Miracles, and that
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is but one onely. </
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of making the water to move is accompanied with another,
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namely, the holding of the Earth ſtedfaſt againſt impetuosities
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of the water, able to make it ſwage ſometimes one way, and
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ſometimes another, if it were not miraculouſly kept to rights.</
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Simplicius,
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let us for the preſent ſuſpend our
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judgement about ſentencing the new opinion to be vain that
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viatus
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is about to explicate unto us, nor let us ſo haſtily flye out
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into paſſion like the ſcolding overgrown Haggs: and as for the
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Miracle, we may as well recurre to it when we have done
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ring the Diſcourſes contained within the bounds of natural
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ſes: though to ſpeak freely, all the Works of nature, or rather
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of God, are in my judgement miraculous.</
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that the motion of the Earth is the Natural cauſe of the ebbing
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and flowing, hinder, but that the ſaid motion of the Earth may
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once again affirm, that it hath been hitherto unknown how it
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might be that the Waters contained in our Mediterranean
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Straights ſhould make thoſe motions, as we ſee it doth, if ſo be
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the ſaid Straight, or containing Veſſel were immoveable. </
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that which makes the difficulty, and rendreth this matter
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cable, are the things which I am about to ſpeak of, and which
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are daily obſerved. </
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Venice,
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where at this time the Waters are low, </
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