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

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              our Age,
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              Copernicus
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              doth demonſtrate the courſes of the Pla­
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              nets to be according to this Opinion. </s>
              <s>Nor is it to be doubted
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              but that the Planets Places may be more exactly and certainly
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              aſſigned by his Doctrine, than by
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              Ptolomies
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              Great Almogeſt of
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              Syſteme, or the Opinions of any others. </s>
              <s>For its manifeſt, that
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              Ptolomy
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              could never deſcribe either the Motion of the Equi­
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              noxes, or aſſign the certain and poſitive beginning of the Year:
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              the which he ingeniouſly confeſſeth in
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              Lih.
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              3.
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              De Almageſt. </s>
              <s>Mag­
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              num. </s>
              <s>Ch.
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              2. and which he leaveth to be diſcovered in after times
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              by thoſe Aſtronomers, who coming into the World much later
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              than he, might be able to invent ſome way to make more accurate
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              obſervations. </s>
              <s>And although the ^{*}
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              Alphonſines & Thebith Ben Core
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              have attempted to explain them; yet it appeareth that they have
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              done as much as nothing. </s>
              <s>For the Poſitions of the
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              Alphonſines
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              diſagree amongſt themſelves, as
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              Ricius
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              proveth. </s>
              <s>And although
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              the Reaſon of
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              Thebith
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              be more acute, and that thereby he de­
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              termined the certain beginning of the year, (being that which
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              Ptolomy
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              ſought for) yet it is now clear, that the Progreſſions of
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              the Equinoxes are much longer than he conceived they could be.
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              <s>Moreover, the Sun is found to be much nearer to us than it was
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              held to be in times paſt, by above fourty thouſand ^{*}
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              Stadia,
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              or
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              furlongs. </s>
              <s>The Cauſe and Reaſon of whoſe Motion, neither
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              Ptolomy
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              nor any other Aſtrologers could ever comprehend: And
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              yet the Reaſons of theſe things are moſt plainly explained and
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              demonſtrated by
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              Copernicus
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              from the Motion of the Earth, with
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              which he ſheweth that all the other
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              Phœnomena
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              of the Univerſe
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              do more aptly accord. </s>
              <s>Which opinion of his is not in the leaſt
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              contradicted by what
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              Solomon
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              ſaith in ^{*}
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              Eccleſiaſtes: But the
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              Earth abideth for ever.
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              For that Text ſignifieth no more but
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              this, That although the ſucceſſion of Ages, and generations of
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              Men on Earth, be various; yet the Earth it ſelf is ſtill one and
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              the ſame, and continueth without any ſenſible alteration; For
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              the words run thus:
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              One Generation paſſeth away, and another
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              Generation cometh; but the Earth abideth for ever.
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              So that it
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              hath no coherence with its Context, (as Philoſophers ſhew) if it
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              be expounded to ſpeak of the Earths immobility. </s>
              <s>And al­
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              though in this Chapter
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              Eccleſiaſtes,
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              and in many others, Holy
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              Writ aſcribes Motion to the Sun, which
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              Copernicus
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              will have to
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              ſtand fixed in the Centre of the Univerſe; yet it makes nothing
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              againſt his Poſition. </s>
              <s>For the Motion that belongs to the Earth,
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              is by way of ſpeech aſſigned to the Sun, even by
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              Copernicus
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              him­
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              ſelf, and thoſe who are his followers, ſo that the Revolution of
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              the Earth is often by them phraſed, The Revolution of the Sun.
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              <s>To conclude, No place can be produced out of Holy Scripture,
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              which ſo clearly ſpeaks the Earths Immobility, as this doth its </s>
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