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