Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ABSTRACT
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OF THE
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Learned Treatiſe
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JOHANNIS KEPL
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RUS,
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The Emperours
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ENTITULED
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His Introduction upon
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many who are devoted to Holineſſe,
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that diſſent from the Judgment of
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fearing to give the Lye to the
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Holy Ghoſt ſpeaking in the Scriptures,
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if they ſhould ſay, that the Earth mo
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ſuch conſider, that ſince we judge of ve
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ry many, and thoſe the moſt principal
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things by the Senſe of Seeing, it is impoſſible that we ſhould ali
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enate our Speech from this Senſe of our Eyes. </
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things daily occur, of which we ſpeak according to the Senſe of
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Provehimur portu, Terrœque urbeſque recedunt.
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Peter, Duc in altum
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; [Lanch forth into the Deep, or on high,]
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as if the Sea were higher than its Shores; For ſo it ſeemeth to
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the Eye, but the Opticks ſhew the cauſe of this fallacy. </
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Chriſt uſeth the moſt received Speech, although it proceed from
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