Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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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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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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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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On its own
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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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leſcunt, & uno no
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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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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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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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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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Sun was near ſetting: And ſo the words themſelves ſeem to </
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