Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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diſſembled this expoſition of the Text, that he might not
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charge his Maſter and Conſectators, with a notion more abſurd
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part is unalterable, becauſe no ſtars do generate or corrupt
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in? </
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another regenerate in its place? </
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granted by Philoſophers, that there are very few ſtars in Heaven
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leſs than the Earth, but very many that are much bigger? </
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that for a ſtar in Heaven to corrupt, would be no leſs than if the
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whole Terreſtrial Globe ſhould be deſtroy'd. </
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the true proof of generation and corruption in the Univerſe, it be
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neceſſary that ſo vaſt bodies as a ſtar, muſt corrupt and
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rate, you may ſatisfie your ſelf and ceaſe your opinion; for I
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aſſure you, that you ſhall never ſee the Terreſtrial Globe or any
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other integral body of the World, to corrupt or decay ſo, that
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having been beheld by us for ſo many years paſt, they ſhould ſo
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diſſolve, as not to leave any footſteps of them.</
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Its no leſs
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ble for a ſtar to
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corrupt, than for
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the whole
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ſtrial Globe.
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Simplicius
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yet fuller ſatisfaction, and to
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reclaim him, if poſſible, from his error; I affirm, that we have in
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our age new accidents and obſervations, and ſuch, that I queſtion
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not in the leaſt, but if
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Ariſtotle
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were now alive, they would make
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him change his opinion; which may be eaſily collected from the
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very manner of his diſcourſing: For when he writeth that he
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ſteemeth the Heavens inalterable, &c. </
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ſeen to be begot therein, or any old to be diſſolved, he ſeems
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plicitely to hint unto us, that when he ſhould ſee any ſuch
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dent, he would hold the contrary; and confront, as indeed it is
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meet, ſenſible experiments to natural reaſon: for had he not
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made any reckoning of the ſenſes, he would not then from the
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not ſeeing of any ſenſible mutation, have argued immutability.</
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Ariſtotle
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would
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change his opinion,
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did he ſee the
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velties of our age.
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deduceth his principal Argument
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à priori,
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ſhewing the neceſſity of the inalterability of Heaven by natural,
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manifeſt and clear principles; and then ſtabliſheth the ſame
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à
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ſteriori,
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by ſenſe, and the traditions of the antients.</
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delivering his Doctrine, but I do not bethink it yet to be that
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wherewith he invented it; for I do believe for certain, that he
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firſt procured by help of the ſenſes, ſuch experiments and
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vations as he could, to aſſure him as much as it was poſſible, of the
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concluſion, and that he afterwards ſought out the means how to
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demonſtrate it: For this, the uſual courſe in demonſtrative
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ces, and the reaſon thereof is, becauſe when the concluſion is
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true, by help of reſolutive Method, one may hit upon ſome
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poſition before demonſtrated, or come to ſome principle known </
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