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

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