Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ſed amongſt the unlearned, and according to the appearance of
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Geneſ.
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1. in the deſcription of the Creation of all things,
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the Light is ſaid to be made firſt of all, and yet it followeth in
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And the Evening and the Morning made the firſt day
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and a little after the ſeveral Acts of the Creation are diſtinguiſhed
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and aſſigned to ſeveral days, and concerning each of them it is
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And the Evening and the Morning made the
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ſecond day
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; and then
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the third day, the fourth day, &c.
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Hence
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many doubts ariſe, all which I ſhall propound according to the
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common Syſteme, that it may appear even from the
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ypotheſis
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of that Syſteme, that the ſacred Scripture ſometimes, for the a
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voyding of emergent difficulties, is to be underſtood in a vulgar
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ſenſe and meaning, and in reſpect of us, and not according to
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ſeemeth to have hinted, when he ſaith, ^{*}
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Some things are more
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intelligible to us; others by nature,
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ſecundum ſe.
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Luke 16.</
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Alia ſunt notio
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ra nobis, alia, no
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tiora natura, vel
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it rolled about without heaven to the making of the diſtinction
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of Day and Night. </
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of theſe men, who affirm that no Cœleſtial Body can be moved
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unleſſe
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per accidens,
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and by the motion of
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eaven,
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and as a knot
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in a board at the motion of the board.
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Again, if it be ſaid, that
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the Light was created at the ſame time with
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eaven, and began
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to be moved with
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eaven, another doubt ariſeth, that likewiſe
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oppoſeth the foreſaid common
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Hypotheſis:
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For it being ſaid,
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that Day and Night, Morning and Evening were made, that ſame
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is either in reſpect of the Univerſe, or onely in reſpect of the
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Earth and us. </
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of the Common Syſteme) doth not cauſe the
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Night and Day, but only to opacous Bodies which are deſtitute
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of all other light, but that of the Sun, whilſt in their half part
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(which is their
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Hemiſphœre)
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and no more, (for that the Suns
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light paſſeth over but one half of an opacous Body, unleſs a ve
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ry ſmall matter more in thoſe of leſſer bulk) they are illumina
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ted by the Suns aſpect, the other half remaining dark and tene
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broſe, by reaſon of a ſhadow proceeding from its own Body.
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cording to the deſcription of them in the ſacred Scriptures, muſt
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not be underſtood
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abſolutely,
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and
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ſecundum ſe,
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and
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Nature her
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ſelf
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; but in reſpect of the Earth, and of us its inhabitants, and
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conſequently
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ſecundum nos.
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'Tis not therefore new, nor unu
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ſual in ſacred Scripture to ſpeak of things
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ſecundum nos,
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and on
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ly
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in reſpect of us,
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ſecundum apparentiam
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; but not
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ſecundum
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and
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reinaturam,
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or
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Abſolutely
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Simply.
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