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

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              lendar, he was ſent for to
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              Rome
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              from the remoteſt parts of
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              Germany,
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              for to aſſiſt in this Reformation, which for that time
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              was left imperfect, onely becauſe as then the true meaſure of
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              the Year and Lunar Moneth was not exactly known: whereupon
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              it was given him in charge by the Biſhop of
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              Sempronia,
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              at that
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              time Super-intendent in that Affair, to ſearch with reiterated
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              ſtudies and pains for greater light and certainty, touching thoſe
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              Cœleſtial Motions. </s>
              <s>Upon which, with a Labour truly
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              Atlantick
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              and with his admirable Wit, ſetting himſelf again to that Study,
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              he made ſuch a progreſs in theſe Sciences, and reduced the
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              knowledge of the Cœleſtial Motions to ſuch exactneſſe, that he
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              gained the title of an Excellent
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              Aſtronomer.
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              And, according
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              unto his Doctrine, not only the Calendar hath been ſince regu­
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              lated, but the Tables of all the Motions of the Planets have al­
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              ſo been calculated: and having reduced the ſaid Doctrine into
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              ſix Books, he publiſhed them to the World at the inſtance of
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              the Cardinal of
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              Capua,
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              and of the Biſhop of
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              Culma.
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              And in
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              regard that he had re-aſſumed this ſo laborious an enterprize by
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              the order of The Pope; he dedicated his Book
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              De Revolutioni­
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              bus Cœleſtibus
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              to His Succeſſour, namely
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              Paul
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              III. which, being
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              then alſo Printed, hath been received by The Holy Church, and
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              read and ſtudied by all the World, without any the leaſt um­
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              brage of ſcruple that hath ever been conceived at his Doctrine;
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              The which, whilſt it is now proved by manifeſt Experiments and
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              neceſſary Demonſtrations to have been well grounded, there
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              want not perſons that, though they never ſaw that ſame Book in­
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              tercept the reward of thoſe many Labours to its Authour, by
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              cauſing him to be cenſured and pronounced an Heretick; and
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              this, only to ſatisfie a particular diſpleaſure conceived, without
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              any cauſe, againſt another man, that hath no other intereſt in
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              Copernicus,
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              but only as he is an approver of his Doctrine.</s>
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              <s>Now in regard of theſe falſe aſperſions, which they ſo unjuſtly
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              ſeek to throw upon me, I have thought it neceſſary for my juſti­
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              fication before the World (of whoſe judgment in matters of
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              Religion and Reputation I ought to make great eſteem) to
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              diſcourſe concerning thoſe Particulars, which theſe men produce
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              to ſcandalize and ſubvert this Opinion, and in a word, to con­
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              demn it, not only as falſe, but alſo as Heretical; continually
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              making an Hipocritical Zeal for Religion their Shield; going a­
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              bout moreover to intereſt the Sacred Scriptures in the Diſpute,
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              and to make them in a certain ſenſe Miniſters of their deceiptful
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              purpoſes: and farthermore deſiring, if I miſtake not, contrary to
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              the intention of them, and of the Holy Fathers to extend (that I
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              may not ſay abuſe) their Authority, ſo as that even in Concluſions
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              meerly Natural, and not
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              de Fide,
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              they would have us altogether </s>
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