Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              be equal, the alterations of the annual Period would fail.</s>
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              Three wayes of
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              altering the
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              portion of the
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              ditions of the
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              nal Revolution to
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              the annual motion.
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              That which
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              us is hard to be
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              derſtood, is with
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              Nature eaſie to be
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              effected.
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              If the Diurnal
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              motion ſhould not
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              alter, the annual
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              Period would ceaſe
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>It ſeems then, that the Monethly alteration of
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              bings and flowings dependeth on the alteration of the annual
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              motion of the Earth? </s>
              <s>And the annual alteration of thoſe
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              bings and flowings do, it ſeems, depend on the additions and
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              ſubſtractions of the diurnal converſion? </s>
              <s>And here now I finde
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              my ſelf worſe puzzled than before, and more out of hope of
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              being able to comprehend how this intricacy may be, which is
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              more inextricable, in my judgment, than the Gordian knot. </s>
              <s>And
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              I envy
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              Simplicius,
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              from whoſe ſilence I argue that he doth
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              prehend the whole buſineſſe, and is acquit of that confuſion
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              which greatly puzzleth my brains.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I believe verily,
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              Sagredus,
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              that you are put to a
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              a ſtand; and I believe that I know alſo the cauſe of your
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              fuſion, which, if I miſtake not, riſeth from your underſtanding
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              part of thoſe particulars but even now alledged by
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              Salviatus,
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              and but a part. </s>
              <s>It is true likewiſe that I find my ſelf free from the
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              like confuſion; but not for that cauſe as you think, to wit,
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              cauſe I apprehend the whole, nay it happens upon the quite
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              contrary account; namely, from my not comprehending any
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              thing; and confuſion is in the plurality of things, and not in
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              nothing.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>You ſee
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              Salviatus,
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              how a few checks given to
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              cius
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              in the dayes preceding, have rendered him gentle, and
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              brought him from the
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              capriol
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              to the
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              amble.
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              But I beſeech you
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              without farther delay, put us both out of ſuſpence.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I will endeavour it to the utmoſt of my harſh way of
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              expreſſing my ſelf, the obtuſeneſſe of which, the acuteneſſe of
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              your wit ſhall ſupply. </s>
              <s>The accidents of which we are to enquire
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              the cauſes are two: The firſt reſpecteth the varieties that happen
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              in the ebbings and flowings in the Monethly Period; and the
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              thr relateth to the Annual. </s>
              <s>We will firſt ſpeak of the
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              ly, and then treat of the Annual; and it is convenient that we
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              reſolve them all according to the Fundamentals and Hypotheſis
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              already laid down, without introducing any novelty either in
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              ſtronomy, or in the Univerſe, in favour of the ebbings and
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              ings; therefore let us demonſtrate that of all the ſeveral
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              dents in them obſerved, the cauſes reſide in the things already
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              known, and received for true and undoubted. </s>
              <s>I ſay therefore,
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              that it is a truly natural, yea neceſſary thing, that one and the ſame
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              moveable made to move round by the ſame moving virtue in a
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              longer time, do make its courſe by a greater circle, rather than
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              by a leſſer; and this is a truth received by all, and
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              firmed by all experiments, of which we will produce a few.
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              In the wheel-clocks, and particularly in the great ones, to </s>
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