Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              are obſcure and hard to be underſtood by the meer help of
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              ratiocination; where treating (as we) of a certain natural conclu­
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              ſion concerning Celeſtial Bodies, he thus writes:
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              (a) But now
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              having evermore a reſpect to the moderation of pious Gravity,
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              we ought to believe nothing unadviſedly in a doubtful point; leſt
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              we conceive a prejudice againſt that, in favour to our Errour,
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              which Truth hereafter may diſcover to be no wiſe contrary to the
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              Sacred Books either of the Old, or New Teſtament.
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              (a) Nunc au­
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              tem, ſervatâ ſem­
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              per moderatione piæ
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              gravitatis, nihil
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              credere de re ob­
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              ſcurâ temerè de­
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              bemus, ne fortè,
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              quod poſtea veritas
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              patefecerit, quam­
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              vis Libris Sanct is,
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              ſive Teſtamenti
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              Veteris, ſive No­
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              vi, nisllo modo eſſe
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              poſſit adverſum,
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              tamen propter a­
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              morem noſtri erro­
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              ris, oderimus.
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              <s>It hath ſince come to paſs, that Time hath by degrees diſco­
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              vered to every one the truths before by me indicated: and to­
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              gether with the truth of the fact, a diſcovery hath been made of
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              the difference of humours between thoſe who ſimply and with­
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              out paſſion did refuſe to admit ſuch like
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              Phænomena
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              for true, and
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              thoſe who to their incredulity had added ſome diſcompoſed af­
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              fection: For as thoſe who were better grounded in the Science of
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              Aſtronomy, and Natural Philoſophy, became ſatisfied upon my
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              firſt ntimation of the news; ſo all thoſe who ſtood not in the
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              Negative, or in doubt for any other reaſon, but becauſe it was
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              an unlookt-for-Novelty, and becauſe they had not an occaſion of
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              ſeeing a ſensible experiment thereof, did by degrees come to ſa­
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              risfie themſelves: But thoſe, who beſides the love they bore to
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              their firſt Errour, have I know not what imaginary intereſs to
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              render them diſaffected; not ſo much towards the things, as to­
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              wards the Author of them, not being able any longer to deny
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              them, conceal themſelves under an obſtinate ſilence; and being
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              exaſperated more than ever by that whereby thoſe others were
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              ſatisfied and convinced, they divert their thoughts to other pro­
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              jects, and ſeek to prejudice me ſome other wayes: of whom I
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              proreſs that I would make no more account than I have done of
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              thoſe who heretofore have contradicted me (at whom I alwaies
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              laugh, as being aſſured of the iſſue that the buſineſs is to have)
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              but that I ſee that thoſe new Calumnies and Perſecutions do not
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              determine in our greater or leſier Learning (in which I will ſcarce
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              pretend to any thing) but extend ſo far as to attempt to aſperſe
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              me with Crimes which ought to be, and are more abhorred by me
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              than Death it ſelf: Nor ought I to content my ſelf that they
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              are known to be unjuſt by thoſe onely who know me and them,
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              but by all men whatſoever. </s>
              <s>They perſiſting therefore in their
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              firſt Reſolution, Of ruining me and whatſoever is mine, by all
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              imaginable waies; and knowing how that I in my Studies of
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              Aſtronomy and Philoſophy hold, as to the Worlds Syſteme,
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              That the Sun, without changing place, is ſituate in the Centre
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              of the Converſion of the Celeſtial Orbes; and that the Earth,
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              convertible about its own Axis, moveth it ſelf about the Sun:
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              And moreover underſtanding, that I proceed to maintain this Po­</s>
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