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

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              new Obſervations, and by the application of many of the Lear­
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              ned to the reading of him, his Hypotheſis and Doctrine doth
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              every day appear to be more true, having admitted and tolerated
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              it for ſo many years, whilſt he was leſſe followed, ſtudied, and
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              confirmed, would ſeem, in my judgment, an affront to Truth,
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              and a ſeeking the more to obſcure and ſuppreſſe her, the more
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              ſhe ſheweth her ſelf clear and perſpicuous.</s>
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              <s>The aboliſhing and cenſuring, not of the whole Book, but
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              onely ſo much of it as concerns this particular opinion of the
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              Earths Mobility,
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              would, if I miſtake not, be a greater detriment
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              to ſouls, it being an occaſion of great ſcandal, to ſee a Poſition
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              proved, and to ſee it afterwards made an Hereſie to believe it.</s>
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              <s>The prohibiting of the whole Science, what other would it
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              be but an open contempt of an hundred Texts of the Holy Scri­
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              ptures, which teach us, That the Glory, and the Greatneſſe of
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              Almighty God is admirably diſcerned in all his Works, and di­
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              vinely read in the Open Book of Heaven? </s>
              <s>Nor let any one
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              think that the Lecture of the lofty conceits that are written in
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              thoſe Leaves finiſh in only beholding the Splendour of the Sun,
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              and of the Stars, and their riſing and ſetting, (which is the term
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              to which the eyes of bruits and of the vulgar reach) but there
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              are couched in them myſteries ſo profound, and conceipts ſo ſub­
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              lime, that the vigils, labours, and ſtudies of an hundred and an
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              hundred acute Wits, have not yet been able thorowly to dive
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              into them after the continual diſquiſition of ſome thouſands of
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              years. </s>
              <s>But let the Unlearned believe, that like as that which
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              their eyes diſcern in beholding the aſpect of a humane body, is
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              very little in compariſon of the ſtupendious Artifices, which an
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              exquiſite and curious Anatomiſt or Philoſopher finds in the ſame
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              when he is ſearching for the uſe of ſo many Muſcles, Tendons,
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              Nerves, and Bones; and examining the Offices of the Heart,
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              and of the other principal Members, ſeeking the ſeat of the vi­
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              tal Faculties, noting and obſerving the admirable ſtructures of
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              the Inſtruments of the Senſes, and, without ever making an end
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              of ſatisfying his curioſity and wonder, contemplating the Re­
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              ceptacles of the Imagination, of the Memory, and of the Un­
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              derſtanding; So that which repreſents it ſelf to the meer ſight,
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              is as nothing in compariſon and proportion to the ſtrange Won­
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              ders, that by help of long and accurate Obſervations the Wit
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              of Learned Men diſcovereth in Heaven. </s>
              <s>And this is the ſub­
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              ſtance of what I had to conſider touching this particular.</s>
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              <s>In the next place, as to thoſe that adde, That thoſe Natural
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              Propoſitions of which the Scripture ſtill ſpeaks in one conſtant
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              tenour, and which the Fathers all unanimouſly receive in the
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              ſame ſenſe, ought to be accepted according to the naked and </s>
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