Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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Mathematician) that the motion of the Earth meeting with the
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motion of the Lunar Orb, the concurrence of them occaſioneth
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the Ebbing and Flowing, is an abſolute vanity, not onely
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cauſe it is not expreſt, nor ſeen how it ſhould ſo happen, but the
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falſity is obvious, for that the Revolution of the Earth is not
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trary to the motion of the Moon, but is towards the ſame way.
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>So that all that hath been hitherto ſaid, and imagined by others,
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famous men that have philoſophated upon this admirable effect
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of Nature, I more wonder at
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Kepler
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than any of the reſt, who
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being of a free and piercing wit, and having the motion
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bed to the Earth, before him, hath for all that given his ear and
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aſſent to the Moons predominancy over the Water, and to
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cult properties, and ſuch like trifles.</
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One ſingle
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on of the
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al Globe ſufficeth
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not to produce the
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Ebbing & Flowing
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Seleucus
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Kepler
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ſons the ſame happened, that at preſent befalls me, namely, the
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not underſtanding the intricate commixtion of the three Periods
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Annual, Monethly, and Diurnal; And how their cauſes ſhould
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ſeem to depend on the Sun, and on the Moon, without the Suns
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or Moons having any thing to do with the Water; a buſineſſe,
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for the full underſtanding of which I ſtand in need of a little
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longer time to conſider thereof, which the novelty and difficulty
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of it hath hitherto hindred me from doing: but I deſpair not, but
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that when I return in my ſolitude and ſilence to ruminate that
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which remaineth in my fancy, not very well digeſted, I ſhall
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make it my own. </
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courſe, great atteſtations, in favour of the
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Copernican
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Syſteme,
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amongſt which theſe three taken: the firſt, from the Stations and
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Retrogradations of the Planets, and from their approaches, and
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receſſions from the Earth; the ſecond, from the Suns revolving
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in it ſelf, and from what is obſerved in its ſpots; the third, from
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the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea do ſhew very rational and
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concluding.</
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fourth, and peradventure a fifth; a fourth, I ſay, taken from
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the fixed ſtars, ſeeing that in them, upon exact obſervations, thoſe
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minute mutations appear, that
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Copernicus
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which one may argue mobility in the Terreſtrial Globe, by
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means of that which the moſt Illuſtrious
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of the
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noble Family of the
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Marſilii
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Bologna,
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and a
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Lyncean
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demick, diſcovereth with much ingenuity, who in a very learned
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Tract of his, ſheweth very particularly how that he had obſerved
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a continual mutation, though very ſlow in the Meridian line,
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of which Treatiſe, at length, with amazement, peruſed by me, </
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