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

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              ſition, not onely by refuting the Reaſons of
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              Ptolomy
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              and
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              Ariſto­
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              tle,
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              but by producing many on the contrary; and in particular,
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              ſome Phyſical pertaining to Natural Effects, the cauſes of which
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              perhaps can be by no other way aſſigned; and others Aſtrono­
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              mical depending upon many circumſtances and encounters of
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              new Diſcoveries in Heaven, which manifeſtly confute the Ptolo­
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              maick Syſteme, and admirably agree with and confirm this other
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              Hypotheſis: and poſſibly being aſhamed to ſee the known truth
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              of other Poſitions by me aſſerted, different from thoſe that have
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              been commonly received; and therefore diſtruſting their de­
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              fence ſo long as they ſhould continue in the Field of Philoſo­
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              phy: for theſe reſpects, I ſay, they have reſolved to try whe­
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              ther they could make a Shield for the fallacies of their Argu­
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              ments of the Mantle of a feigned Religion, and of the Autho­
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              rity of the Sacred Scriptures, applyed by them with little judg­
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              ment to the confutation of ſuch Reaſons of mine as they had
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              neither underſtood, nor ſo much as heard.</s>
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              Lib_{+} 2. Geneſi
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              ad Literam in
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              fine.</s>
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              <s>And firſt, they have indeavoured, as much as in them lay, to
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              divulge an opiniou thorow the Univerſe, that thoſe Propoſitions
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              are contrary to the Holy Letters, and conſequently Damnable
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              and Heretical: And thereupon perceiving, that for the moſt
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              part, the inclination of Mans Nature is more prone to imbrace
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              thoſe enterprizes, whereby his Neighbour may, although un­
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              juſtly, be oppreſſed, than thoſe from whence he may receive
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              juſt incouragement; it was no hard matter to find thoſe Com­
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              plices, who for ſuch (that is, for Damnable and Heretical) did
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              from their Pulpits with unwonted confidence preach it, with but
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              an unmerciful and leſs conſiderate injury, not only to this Do­
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              ctrine, and to its followers, but to all Mathematicks and Ma­
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              thematicians together. </s>
              <s>Hereupon aſſuming greater confidence,
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              and vainly hoping that that Seed which firſt took root in their un­
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              ſound mindes, might ſpread its branches, and aſcend towards
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              Heaven, they went ſcattering rumours up and down among the
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              People, That it would, ere long be condemned by Supreme Au­
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              thority: and knowing that ſuch a
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              Cenſure
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              would ſupplant
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              not onely theſe two Concluſions of the Worlds Syſteme, but
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              would make all other Aſtronomical and Phyſical Obſervations
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              that have correſpondence and neceſſary connection therewith to
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              become damnable, to facilitate the buſineſs they ſeek all they
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              can to make this opinion (at leaſt among the vulgar) to ſeem new,
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              and peculiar to my ſelf, not owning to know that
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              Nicholas Coper­
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              nicus
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              was its Authour, or rather Reſtorer and Confirmer: a per­
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              ſon who was not only a Catholick, but a Prieſt, Canonick, and
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              ſo eſteemed, that there being a Diſpute in the
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              Lateran Council,
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              under
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              Leo
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              X. touching the correction of the Eccleſiaſtick Ca­</s>
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