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

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              Senſe of Seeing, ſtaid a whole day in the midſt of Heaven, where­
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              as at the ſame time to others it lay hid under the Earth. </s>
              <s>But in­
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              cogitant perſons onely look upon the contrariety of the words,
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              The Sun ſtood ſtill,
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              that is,
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              The Earth ſtood ſtill
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              ; not conſidering
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              that this contradiction is confined within the limits of the Op­
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              ticks and Aſtronomy: For which cauſe it is not outwardly ex­
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              poſed to the notice and uſe of men: Nor will they underſtand
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              that the onely thing
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              Joſhuah
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              prayed for, was that the Mountains
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              might not intercept the Sun from him; which requeſt he expreſ­
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              ſed in words, that ſuited with his Ocular Senſe: Beſides it had
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              been very unſeaſonable at that time to think of Aſtronomy, or
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              the Errours in Sight; for if any one ſhould have told him that
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              the Sun could not really move upon the Valley of
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              Ajalon,
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              , but
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              onely in relation to Senſe, would not
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              Joſhuah
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              have replyed, that
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              his deſire was that the day might be prolonged, ſo it were by
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              any means whatſoever? </s>
              <s>In like manner would he have anſwered
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              if any one had ſtarted a queſtion about the Suns Mobility, and
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              the Earths Motion. </s>
              <s>But God eaſily underſtood by
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              Joſhuahs
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              words what he asked for, and by arreſting the Earths Motion,
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              made the Sun in his apprehenſion ſeem to ſtand ſtill. </s>
              <s>For the
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              ſumm of
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              Joſhuahs
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              Prayer amounts to no more but this, that it
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              might thus appear to him, let it in the mean time
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              be what it
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              would
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              of it ſelf. </s>
              <s>For that its ſo ſeeming, was not in vain and
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              ridiculous, but accompanied with the deſired effect. </s>
              <s>But read
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              the tenth
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              Chap.
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              of my
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              Book,
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              that treats of
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              the Optick part of A­
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              ſtronomy,
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              where thou ſhalt finde the Reaſons why the Sun doth
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              in this manner ſeem to all mens thinking to be moved, and not
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              the Earth; as namely, becauſe the Sun appeareth ſmall; and the
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              Earth bigg. </s>
              <s>Again, the Motion of the Sun is not diſcerned by
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              the eye, by reaſon of his ſeeming tardity, but by ratiocina­
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              tion onely; in that after ſome time it varieth not its proximity to
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              ſuch and ſuch Mountains. </s>
              <s>Therefore it is impoſſible that Rea­
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              ſon, unleſs it be firſt inſtructed, ſhould frame to it ſelf any other
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              apprehenſion, than that the Earth with Heavens Arch placed
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              over it, is as it were a great Houſe, in which, being immoveable,
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              the Sun like a Bird flying in the Air, paſſeth in ſo ſmall a Species
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              out of one Climate into another. </s>
              <s>Which imagination of all
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              Man-kinde being thus, gave the firſt line in the Sacred Leaves:
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              ^{*}
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              In the beginning
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              (ſaith
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              Moſes) God created the Heaven and the
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              Earth
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              ; for that theſe two are moſt obvious to the eye. </s>
              <s>As if
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              Moſes
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              ſhould have ſaid thus to Man; This whole Mundane Fa­
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              brick which thou ſeeſt, lucid above, and dark, and of a vaſt ex­
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              tent beneath, wherein thou haſt thy being, and with which thou
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              art covered, was created by God.</s>
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              * Gen.
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              Chv. </s>
              <s>1.
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              v.
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              1.</s>
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              <s>In another place Man is queſtioned;
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              Whether he can finde out
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              </s>
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