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

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              Moon, we are to underſtand the Orbes of all the other Planets,
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              paſſed over in ſilence here, as alſo in all other places of the Sacred
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              Scriptures; the intention of which, was not to reach us the Aſtro­
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              nomical Sciences. </s>
              <s>I ſuppoſe therefore, (if I be not deceived)
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              that it is very plain, that if we allow the
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              Ptolemaick
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              Syſteme, we
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              muſt of neceſſity interpret the words to ſome ſenſe different from
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              their ſtrict ſignification. </s>
              <s>Which Interpretation (being admo­
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              niſhed by the moſt uſefull precepts of S.
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              Auguſtine)
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              I will not
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              affirm to be of neceſſity this above-mentioned, ſince that ſome
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              other man may haply think of ſome other more proper, and more
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              agreeable Senſe.</s>
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              <s>But now, if this ſame paſſage may be underſtood in the
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              Coper­
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              nican
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              Syſteme, to agree better with what we read in
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              Joſhuah,
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              with the help of another Obſervation by me newly ſhewen in
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              the Body of the Sun; I will propound it to conſideration, ſpeak­
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              ing alwaies with thoſe ſafe Reſerves; That I am not ſo affectio­
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              nate to my own inventions, as to prefer them before thoſe of
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              other men, and to believe that better and more agreeable to the
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              intention of the Sacred Volumes cannot be produced.</s>
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              <s>Suppoſing therefore in the firſt place, that in the Miracle of
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              Joſhuah,
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              the whole Syſteme of the Celeſtial Revolutions ſtood
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              ſtill, according to the judgment of the afore-named Authors:
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              And this is the rather to be admitted, to the end, that by the
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              ſtaying of one alone, all the Conſtitutions might not be con­
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              founded, and a great diſorder needleſly introduced in the whole
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              courſe of Nature: I come in the ſecond place to conſider how the
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              Solar Body, although ſtable in one conſtant place, doth neverthe­
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              leſs revolve in it ſelf, making an entire Converſion in the ſpace
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              of a Month, or thereabouts; as I conceive I have ſolidly demon­
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              ſtrated in my Letters
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              Delle Machie Solari
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              : Which motion we
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              ſenſibly ſee to be in the upper part of its Globe, inclined to­
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              wards the South; and thence towards the lower part, to encline
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              towards the North, juſt in the ſame manner as all the other Orbs
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              of the Planets do. </s>
              <s>Thirdly, If we reſpect the Nobility of the
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              Sun, and his being the Fountain of Light, by which, (as I neceſ­
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              ſarily demonſtrate) not onely the Moon and Earth, but all the
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              other Planets (all in the ſame manner dark of themſelves) become
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              illuminated; I conceive that it will be no unlogicall Illation to ſay,
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              That it, as the Grand Miniſter of Nature, and in a certain ſenſe
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              the Soul and Heart of the World, infuſeth into the other Bodies
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              which environ it; not onely Light, but Motion alſo; by revol­
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              ving ^{*} in it ſelf: So that in the ſame manner that the motion of
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              the Heart of an Animal ceaſing, all the other motions of its
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              Members would ceaſe; ſo, the Converſion of the Sun ceaſing,
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              the Converſions of all the Planets would ſtand ſtill. </s>
              <s>And though </s>
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