Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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* Officium
AN
ABSTRACT
OF
Some paſſages in the Commentaries of
Didacus à Stunica,
OF
SALAMANCA
Upon JOB:
The Toledo Edition, Printed by JOHN RODERICK,
Anno 1584, in Quarto, Pag. 205. & ſeqque on
theſe Words, Chap.
9. Verſe 6.
Who ſhaketh the Earth out of her place, and the Pil­
lars thereof Tremble.
The Sacred Pen-man here ſets down another ef­
fect whereby God ſheweth his Ahnighty Po­
wer, joyned with infinite Wiſdom.
Which
place, though it muſt be confeſſed very diffi­
cult to underſtand, might be greatly cleared
by the Opinion of the Pythagorians, who
hold the Earth to be moved of its own Na­
ture, and that the Motion of the Stars can no other way be aſcer­
tained, they being ſo extreamly different in tardity and velocity.
Of which judgement was Philolaus, and Heraclides Ponticus, as
Plutarch relateth in his Book De Placitis Philoſophorum: Who
were followed by Numa Pompilius, and, which I more regard,
The Divine Plato in his old age; inſomuch that he affirmed that
it was moſt abſurd to think otherwiſe, as the ſame Plutarch tells
us in his ^{*} Numa. And Hypocrates in his Book De Flatibus,

calleth the Air τησγησὀχἠμα, i. e. The Earths Chariot. But in this

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