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

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              Setting of the Stars, that is to ſay, of their Aſcenſion and Deſ­
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              cenſion; when at the ſame time that we affirm the Sun riſeth, o­
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              thers ſay, that it goeth down. </s>
              <s>See my
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              Optices Aſtronomiœ, cap.
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              10.
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              fol.
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              327 So in like manner, the
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              Ptolomaicks
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              affirm, that the
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              Planets
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              ſtand ſtill,
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              when for ſome dayes together they ſeem to be
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              fixed, although they believe them at that very time to be moved
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              in a direct line, either downwards to, or upwards from the
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              Earth. </s>
              <s>Thus the Writers of all Nations uſe the word
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              Solſtiti­
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              um,
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              and yet they deny that the Sun doth really ſtand ſtill. </s>
              <s>Like­
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              wiſe there will never any man be ſo devoted to
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              Copernicus,
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              but
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              he will ſay, the Sun entereth into
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              Cancer
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              and
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              Leo,
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              although he
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              granteth that the Earth enters
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              Capricorn
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              or
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              Aquarius
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              : And ſo
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              in other caſes of the like nature. </s>
              <s>But now the Sacred Scriptures,
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              ſpeaking to men of vulgar matters (in which they were not in­
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              tended to inſtruct men) after the manner of men, that ſo they
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              might be underſtood by men, do uſe ſuch Expreſſions as are
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              granted by all, thereby to inſinuate other things more Myſterious
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              and Divine. </s>
              <s>What wonder is it then, if the Scripture ſpeaks
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              according to mans apprehenſion, at ſuch time when the Truth
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              of things doth diſſent from the Conception that all men, whe­
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              ther Learned or Unlearned have of them? </s>
              <s>Who knows not
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              that it is a Poetical alluſion,
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              Pſal.
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              19. where, whilſt under the ſi­
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              militude of the Sun, the Courſe of the Goſpel, as alſo the Pere­
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              grination of our Lord Chriſt in this World, undertaken for our
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              ſakes, is deſcribed,
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              The Sun
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              is ſaid
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              to come forth of his Taberna­
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              cle
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              of the Horizon,
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              as a Bridegroom out of his Chamber, re­
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              joycing as a Giant to run a Race
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              ? </s>
              <s>Which
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              Virgil
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              thus imitates;</s>
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              Tithono croceum linquens Auror a cubile
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              :</s>
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              <s>For the firſt Poets were amongſt the Jews. </s>
              <s>The Pſalmiſt knew that
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              the Sun went not forth of the Horizon, as out of its Tabernacle,
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              & yet it ſeemeth to the Eye ſo to do: Nor did he believe, that the
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              Sun moved, for that it appeared to his ſight ſo to do. </s>
              <s>And yet he
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              ſaith both, for that both were ſo to his ſeeming. </s>
              <s>Neither is it
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              to be adjudged falſe in either Senſe: for the perception of the
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              Eyes hath its verity, fit for the more ſecret purpoſe of the Pſal­
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              miſt in ſhadowing forth the current paſſage oſ the Goſpel, as
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              alſo the Peregrination of the Son of God.
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              Joſhua
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              likewiſe
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              mentioneth the Vallies on or in, which the Sun and Moon mo­
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              ved, for that they appeared to him at
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              Jordan
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              ſo to do: And yet
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              both theſe Pen-men may obtain their ends.
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              David,
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              (and with
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              him
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              Syracides
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              ) the magnificence of God being made known,
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              which cauſed theſe things to be in this manner repreſented to
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              ſight, or otherwiſe, the myſtical meaning, by means of theſe
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              Viſibles being diſcerned: And
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              Joſhua,
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              in that the Sun, as to his </s>
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