Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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Therefore the
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two great Lights
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are to be underſtood in reſpect of
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us, and according to vulgar eſtimation, and not according to the
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true and reall exiſtence of ſuch Bodies. </
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fication of the Propoſition it is ſaid,
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The greater Light to rule the
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Day
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; hereby denoting the Sun; in which the verbal ſenſe of
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Scripture agreeth with the Truth of the Thing; For that the Sun
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is the Greateſt of all Luminaries, and Globes. </
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followeth immediately after,
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And the leſſer Light to rule the
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Night,
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meaning the Moon, cannot be taken in the true and real
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ſenſe of the words: For the Moon is not the leſſer Light, but
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Mercury
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; which is not only much leſſer than the Moon, but alſo
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than any other Star. </
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Text doth not ſpeak of the Stars, but onely of the Luminaries,
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for that preſently after they are mentioned apart,
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And the Stars
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and that what we ſay is true touching the compariſon of the Stars
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amongſt themſelves, but not in reſpect of the Luminaries, name
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ly, the Sun and Moon: This reply doth diſcover a man to be
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utterly ignorant in theſe Studies, and ſuch who having not the
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leaſt ſmattering in them, doth conceive an abſurd and erroneous
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Opinion of the Cœleſtial Bodies. </
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ſidered in themſelves, and as they appear to us, if they ſhould
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be a far greater diſtance from us, than indeed they are, would be
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no other, nor would appear to us otherwiſe than Stars, as the
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reſt do in the Firmament. </
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are, nor ſeem to be, ſave only
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in reſpect of us:
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And ſo, on
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the other ſide, the Stars, as to themſelves, are no other than ſo
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many Suns and ſo many Moons; yet are ſo far remote from us,
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that by reaſon of their diſtance they appear thus ſmall, and dim
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of light, as we behold them. </
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of heavenly Bodies
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(cæteris paribus)
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doth augment and diminiſh
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their appearance both as to Magnitude and Light. </
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fore the words which follow in that place of
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Geneſis, And the
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Stars
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(as diſtinguiſhing the Stars from the Sun and Moon) are
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to be taken in no other acceptation than that which we have ſpo
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ken of, namely,
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according to the ſenſe of the Vulgar, and the
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common manner of ſpeech.
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For indeed, according to the truth
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of the matter, all Cœleſtial Bodies, being ſhining Globes, are of
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a vaſt bigneſs, to which if we ſhould be ſo neer as we are to the
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Moon, they would ſeem to us of as great, yea a greater magni
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tude than the Moon: As likewiſe on the contrary, if we were as
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far diſtant from the Sun and Moon, as we are from them, both
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Moon and Sun would ſhew but as ſtars to us. </
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ſplendor of the Sun would doubtleſs be greater
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intenſivè
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that of any other ſtar. </
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ſome ſtars (as thoſe of the Fixed that twinkle) do ſhine of </
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