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

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              I could produce the teſtimonies of many grave Writers to prove
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              the admirable power and influence of the Sun, I will content my
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              ſelf with one ſole place of Holy
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              Dioniſius Areopagita
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              in his Book
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              de Divinis Nominibus
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              ; who thus writes of the Sun: ^{(*)}
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              His Light
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              gathereth and converts all things to himſelf, which are ſeen,
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              moved, illuſtrated, wax hot, and (in a word) thoſe things which
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              are preſerved by his ſplendor: Wherefore the Sun is called
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                <foreign lang="grc">Hλιος,</foreign>
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              for that he collecteth and gathereth together all things diſperſed.
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              And a little after of the Sun again he adds; ^{(*)}
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              If this Sun which
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              wo ſee, as touching the Eſſences and Qualities of thoſe things
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              which fall within our Senſe, being very many and different; yet
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              if he who is one, and equally beſtowes his Light, doth renew,
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              nouriſh, defend, perfect, divide, conjoyn, cheriſh, make fruitfull,
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              encreaſe, change, fix, produce, move, and faſhion all living crea­
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              tures: And every thing in this Vniverſe at his Pleaſure, is par­
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              taker of one and the ſame Sun; and the cauſes of many things
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              which participate of him, are equally auticipated in him: Certain­
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              ly by greater reaſon
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              ; &c. </s>
              <s>The Sun therefore being the Foun­
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              tain of Light and, Principle of Motion, God intending, that at
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              the Command of
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              Joſhua,
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              all the Worlds Syſteme, ſhould con­
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              tinue many hours in the ſame ſtate, it ſufficeth to make the Sun
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              ſtand ſtill, upon whoſe ſtay (all the other Converſions ceaſing)
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              the Earth, the Moon, the Sun did abide in the ſame Conſtitution
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              as before, as likewiſe all the other Planets: Nor in all that time
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              did the Day decline towards Night, but it was miraculouſly pro­
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              longed: And in this manner, upon the ſtanding ſtill of the Sun,
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              without altering, or in the leaſt diſturbing the other Aſpects and
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              mutual Poſitions of the Stars, the Day might be lengthned on
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              Earth; which exactly agreeth with the Litteral ſenſe of the Sacred
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              Text.</s>
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              *
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              i. </s>
              <s>i.
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              On its own
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              Axis.</s>
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              (*)
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              Lux ejus colli­
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              git, convertitque ad
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              ſe omnia, quæ vi­
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              dentur, quæ mo­
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              ventur, quæ illu­
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              ſtrantur, quæ ca­
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              leſcunt, & uno no­
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              mine ea, quæ ab e­
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              jus ſplendore cen­
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              tinentur. </s>
              <s>Itaque
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              Sol
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              dicitur,
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              quod omnia con­
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              greger, colligatque
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              diſperſa.
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              (*)
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              Si enim
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              Sol hic quem vi­
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              domus, eorum quæ
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              ſub ſenſum ca­
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              dunt, eſſentias &
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              qualitates, quæ que
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              muliæ ſint ac diſ­
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              ſimiles, tamen ipſe
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              qui unus eſt, æqua­
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              literque lumen
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              fundit, renovat, a­
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              lit, tuetur, perficit,
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              dividit, conjungit,
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              fovet, fæcunda red­
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              dit, auget, mutat,
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              firmat, edit, movet,
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                <expan abbr="vitaliaq;">vitaliaque</expan>
              facit om­
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              nia: &
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              res hujus univer­
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              ſitatis, pro cæptu
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              ſuo, unius atque e­
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              juſdem Solis eſt
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              particeps, cauſæſ­
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              que multorum,
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              quæ participant, in
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              ſe æquabiliter an­
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              ticipatas habet,
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              certe majori ratio­
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              ne,
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              &c.</s>
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              <s>But that of which, if I be not miſtaken, we are to make no
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              ſmall account, is, That by help of this
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              Copernican
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              Hypotheſis,
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              we have the Litteral, apert, and Natural Senſe of another parti­
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              cular that we read of in the ſame Miracle; which is, That the
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              Sun ſtood ſtill
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              in Medio Cæli
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              : Upon which paſſage grave Divines
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              raiſe many queſtions, in regard it ſeemeth very probable, That
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              when
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              Joſhuah
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              deſired the lengthning of the Day, the Sun was
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              near ſetting, and not in the Meridian; for if it had been in the
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              Meridian, it being then about the Summer
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              Solſtice,
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              and con­
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              ſequently the dayes being at the longeſt, it doth not ſeem likely
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              that it was neceſſary to pray for the lengthning of the day, to
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              proſecute Victory in a Battail, the ſpace of ſeven hours and more,
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              which remained to Night, being ſufficient for that purpoſe.
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              <s>Upon which Grave Divines have been induced to think that the
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              Sun was near ſetting: And ſo the words themſelves ſeem to </s>
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