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

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              For it might be called ſo, either becauſe that that which is taught
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              by all the other Sciences, is found to be comprized and demonſtra­
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              ted in it, but with more excellent means, and with more ſublime
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              Learning; in like manner, as for example; The Rules of meaſuring
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              of Land, & of Accountantſhip are much more excellently contain­
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              ed in the Arithmatick and Geometry of
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              Euclid,
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              than in the Practi­
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              ſes of Surveyours and Accomptants: Or becauſe the Subject about
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              which
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              Theologie
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              is converſant, excelleth in Dignity all the other
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              Subjects, that are the Matters of other Sciences: As alſo becauſe
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              its Documents are divulged by nobler waies. </s>
              <s>That the Title
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              and Authority of Queen belongeth to
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              Theologie
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              in the firſt
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              Senſe, I think that no Theologers will affirm, that have but any
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              in-ſight into the other Sciences; of which there are none (as I be­
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              lieve) that will ſay that Geometry, Aſtronomy Muſick, and Me­
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              dicine are much more excellently and exactly contained in the
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              Sacred Volumes, than in the Books of
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              Archimedes,
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              in
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              Ptolomy,
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              in
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              Boetius,
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              and in
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              Galen.
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              Therefore it is probable that the Regal
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              Preheminence is given her upon the ſecond account, namely, By
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              reaſon of the Subject, and the admirable communicating of the
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              Divine Revelations in thoſe Concluſions which by other means
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              could not be conceived by men, and which chiefly concern the
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              acquiſt of eternal Beatitude. </s>
              <s>Now if
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              Theologie
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              being conver­
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              ſant about the loftieſt Divine Contemplation, and reſiding for
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              Dignity in the Regal Throne of the Sciences, (whereby ſhe be­
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              cometh of higheſt Authority) deſcendeth not to the more mean
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              and humble Speculations of the inferior Sciences: Nay; (as hath
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              been declared above) hath no regard to them, as not concerning
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              Bearitude; the Profeſſors thereof ought not to arrogate to them­
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              ſelves the Authority to determin of Controverſies in thoſe Pro­
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              feſſions which have been neither practiſed nor ſtudied by them.
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              <s>For this would be as if an Abſolute Prince, knowing that he
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              might freely command, and cauſe himſelf to be obeyed, ſhould
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              (being neither Phiſitian nor Architect) undertake to adminiſter
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              Medicines, and erect Buildings after his own faſhion, to the great
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              endangering af the lives of the poor Patients, and to the manifeſt
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              deſtruction of the Edifices.</s>
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              <s>Again, to command the very Profeſſors of
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              Aſtronomy,
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              that
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              they of themſelves ſee to the confuting of their own Obſerva­
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              tions and Demonſtrations, as thoſe that can be no other but
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              Falacies and Sophiſmes, is to enjoyn a thing beyond all poſſibi­
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              lity of doing: For it is not onely to command them that they do
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              not ſee that which they ſee, and that they do not underſtand
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              that which they underſtand; but that in ſeeking, they finde the
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              contrary of that which they happen to meet with. </s>
              <s>Therefore be­
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              fore that this is to be done, it would be neceſſary that they were </s>
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