Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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Aleppo,
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and this it is: That keeping a particular account and
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memorial of the dayes of the departure and arrival of the Ships in
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the Ports of
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Alexandria,
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Alexandretta,
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and this of
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Venice
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; in
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comparing ſundry of them, which I did for my curioſity, I found
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that in exactneſs of account the returns hither, that is the voiages
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from Eaſt to Weſt along the Mediterrane, are made in leſs time
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then the contrary courſes by 25. in the Hundred: So that we ſee
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that one with another, the Eaſtern windes are ſtronger then the
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Weſtern.</
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Which Wind
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with our Engliſh
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Mariners is called
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the
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Trade-wind.
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The voiages in the
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Mediterrane from
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Eaſt to Weſt are
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made in ſhorter
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times than from
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Weſt to Eaſt.
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a little make for the confirmation of the Earths mobility. </
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although it may be alledged, That all the Water of the
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rane runs perpetually towards the Straits-mouth, as being to
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diſimbogue into the Ocean, the waters of as many Rivers, as do
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diſcharge themſelves into the ſame; I do not think that that
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rent can be ſo great, as to be able of it ſelf alone to make ſo
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table a difference: which is alſo manifeſt by obſerving that the
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water in the Pharo of
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Sicily
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runneth back again no leſs towards
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the Eaſt, than it runneth forwards towards the Weſt.</
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Simplicius,
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an inclination to
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fie any one beſides my ſelf, am ſatisfied with what hath been ſaid
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as to this firſt particular: Therefore
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Salviatus,
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when you think
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it fit to proceed forward, I am prepared to hear you.</
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hear the opinion alſo of
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Simplicius,
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from whoſe judgement I can
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argue how much I may promiſe to my ſelf touching theſe
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courſes from the
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Peripatetick
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Schools, if ever they ſhould come
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a meaſure, whereby you ſhould judge of others thoughts; for
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as I have often ſaid, I am inconſiderable in theſe kinde of ſtudies,
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and ſuch things may come into the mindes of thoſe that are
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ed into the deepeſt paſſages of Philoſophy, as I could never think
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of; as having (according to the Proverb) ſcarce kiſt her Maid:
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yet nevertheleſs, to give you my ſudden thoughts, I ſhall tell
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you, That of thoſe effects by you recounted, and particularly the
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laſt, there may in my judgement very ſufficient Reaſons be given
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without the Earths mobility, by the mobility of the Heavens
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ly; never introducing any novelty more, than the inverſion of
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that which you your ſelf propoſe unto us. </
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Schools, that the Element of Fire, and alſo a
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great part of the Aire is carried about according to the Diurnal
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converſion from Eaſt to Weſt, by the contact of the Concave of
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the Lunar Orb, as by the Veſſel their container. </
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