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

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              nerating and decaying; winds, rains, tempeſts, ſtorms ariſing; and
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              in a word, the aſpect of the Earth to be perpetually
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              ſing; none of which mutations are to be diſcern'd in the Cœleſtial
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              bodies; the conſtitution and figuration of which is moſt
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              ally conformable to that they ever were time out of mind; without
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              the generation of any thing that is new, or corruption of any thing
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              that was old.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But if you content your ſelf with theſe viſible, or to
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              ſay better, ſeen experiments, you muſt conſequently account
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              China
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              and
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              America
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              Cœleſtial bodies, for doubtleſſe you never
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              beheld in them theſe alterations which you ſee here in
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              Italy,
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              and
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              that therefore according to your apprehenſion they are
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              terable.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Though I never did ſee theſe alterations ſenfibly in
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              thoſe places, the relations of them are not to be queſtioned;
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              beſides that,
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              cum eadem ſit ratio totius, & partium,
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              thoſe
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              Countreys being a part of the Earth, as well as ours, they
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              muſt of neceſſity be alterable as theſe are.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And why have you not, without being put to believe
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              other mens relations, examined and obſerved thoſe alterations
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              with your own eyes?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Becauſe thoſe places, beſides that they are not
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              poſed to our eyes, are ſo remote, that our ſight cannot reach
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              to comprehend therein ſuch like mutations.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>See now, how you have unawares diſcovered the
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              cy of your Argument; for, if you ſay that the alterations that
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              are ſeen on the Earth neer at hand, cannot, by reaſon of the too
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              great diſtance, be ſeen in
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              America,
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              much leſſe can you ſee them
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              in the Moon, which is ſo many hundred times more remote:
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              And if you believe the alterations in
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              Mexico
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              upon the report of
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              thoſe that come from thence, what intelligence have you from
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              the Moon, to aſſure you that there is no ſuch alterations in it?
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              <s>Therefore, from your not ſeeing any alterations in Heaven,
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              whereas, if there were any ſuch, you could not ſee them by
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              ſon of their too great diſtance, and from your not having
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              ligence thereof, in regard that it cannot be had, you ought not
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              to argue, that there are no ſuch alterations; howbeit, from the
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              ſeeing and obſerving of them on Earth, you well argue that
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              therein ſuch there are.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I will ſhew ſo great mutations that have befaln on
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              the Earth; that if any ſuch had happened in the Moon, they
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              might very well have been obſerved here below. </s>
              <s>We find in
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              very antient records, that heretofore at the Streights of
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              Gibraltar,
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              the two great Mountains
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              Abila,
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              and
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              Calpen,
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              were continued
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              gether by certain other leſſe Mountains which there gave check </s>
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