Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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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. </
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Optices Aſtronomiœ, cap.
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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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Solſtiti
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and yet they deny that the Sun doth really ſtand ſtill. </
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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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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. </
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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. </
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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? </
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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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Virgil
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Tithono croceum linquens Auror a cubile
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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. </
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ſaith both, for that both were ſo to his ſeeming. </
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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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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 </
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