Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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the Moon and Sun; neer, in a word, at the time of its conjun
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ction and change; remote, in its Full and Oppoſition; and the
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greateſt vicinity differ the quantity of the Diameter of the
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nar Orb. </
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>Now if it be true that the virtue which moveth the
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Earth and Moon, about the Sun, be alwayes maintained in
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the ſame vigour; and if it be true that the ſame moveable
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moved by the ſame virtue, but in circles unequal, do in ſhorter
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times paſſe like arches of leſſer circles, it muſt needs be granted,
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that the Moon when it is at a leſſe diſtance from the Sun, that is
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in the time of conjunction, paſſeth greater arches of the Grand
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Orb, than when it is at a greater diſtance, that is in its Opppſition
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to the Earth alſo; for if we ſhall ſuppoſe a right line produced from
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the centre of the Sun by the centre of the Terreſtrial Globe, and
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prolonged as far as the Orb of the Moon, this ſhall be the
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diameter of the Grand Orb, in which the Earth, in caſe it were
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alone, would move uniformly, but if in the ſame ſemidiameter we
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ſhould place another body to be carried about, placing it one
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while between the Earth and Sun, and another while beyond
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the Earth, at a greater diſtance from the Sun, it is neceſſary,
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that in this ſecond caſe the motion common to both, according
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to the circumference of the great Orb by means of the diſtance
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of the Moon, do prove a little ſlower than in the other caſe,
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when the Moon is between the Earth and Sun, that is at a leſſer
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>So that in this buſineſſe the very ſame happeneth that
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befals in the time of the clock; that lead which is placed one
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while farther ſrom the centre, to make the vibrations of the
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ſtaffe or ballance leſſe frequent, and another while nearer, to
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make them thicker, repreſenting the Moon. </
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>Hence it may be
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manifeſt, that the annual motion of the Earth in the Grand
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Orb, and under the Ecliptick, is not uniform, and that its
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regularity proceedeth from the Moon, and hath its Monethly
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Periods and Returns. </
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the Monethly and Annual Periodick alterations of the ebbings
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and flowings, cannot be deduced from any other cauſe than
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from the altered proportion between the annual motion and the
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additions and ſubſtractions of the diurnal converſion; and that
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thoſe alterations might be made two wayes, that is by altering
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the annual motion, keeping the quantity of the additions
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altered, or by changing of the bigneſſe of theſe, reteining the
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uniformity of annual motion. </
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of theſe, depending on the irregularity of the annual motion
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occaſioned by the Moon, and which hath its Monethly Periods.
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and flowings have a Monethly Period in which they do grow </
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