1DDIAMONDS.Diamonds ground to divers ſides, and why.63DIDACUS.
Didacus à Stunica reconcileth Texts of Scripture with the Copernican Hypotheſis.468DEFINITIONS.Definitions contain virtually all the Paſſions of the things defined.87EEARTH.The Earth Spherical by the Conſpiration of its parts to go to its Centre.21Itis eaſier to prove the Earth to move, than that Corruptibility is made by Contraries.27The Earth very Noble, by reaſon of the Mutations made therein.45The Earth unprofitable and full of Idleneſſe, its Alterations being taken away.45The Earth more Noble than Gold and Jewels.45The Celeſtial Bodies deſigned to ſerve the Earth,need no more but Motion and Light.45
The Generations and Mutations that are in the Earth, are all for the Good of Man.47From the Earth we ſee more than half the Lunar Globe.51Seven Reſemblances between the Earth and Moon.48 to 53The Earth unable to reflect the Suns Rays.54The Earth may reciprocally operate on Celeſtial Bodies with its Light.80Affinity between the Earth and Moon, by reaſon of their Vicinity.81The Motions of the Earth imperceptible to its Inhabitants.97The Earth can have no other Motions than thoſe which to us appear commune to all the reſt of the Univerſe, the Earth excepted.97The Diurnal Motion ſeemeth commune to all the Univerſe, the Earth onely excepted.97Ariſtotle and Ptolomy argue againſt the EarthsDiurnal Motion.97The Diurnal Motion of the Earth. Vide Diurnal Motion.Seven Arguments to prove the Diurnal Motion to belong to the Earth.99 to 103The Earth a pendent Body, and equilibrated in a fluid Medium, ſeems unable to reſiſt the Rapture of the Diurnal Motion.103Two kinds of Arguments againſt the EarthsMotion.108Arguments of Ariſtotle, Ptolomy, Tycho, and other perſons, againſt the Earths Motion.107 & 108The firſt Argument againſt the Earths Motion taken from Grave Bodies falling from on high to the Ground.108Which Argument is conſirmed by the Experiment of a Body let fall from the Roundtop of a Ships Maſt.108The ſecond Argument taken from a Project ſhot very high.108The third Argument taken from the Shot of a Canon towards the Eaſt, and towards the Weſt.108This Argument is conſirmed by two Shots towards the North and South, and two others towards the Eaſt and Weſt.109The fourth Argument taken from the Clouds and from Birds.113A fifth Argument taken from the Aire which we feel beat upon us when we run an Horſe at full ſpeed.114A ſixth Argument taken from the whirling of Circular Bodies, which hath a faculty to extrude and diſſipate.114The Anſwer to Ariſtotles firſt Argument.115The Anſwer to the ſecond Argument.117The Anſwer to the third Argument.120 to 150An Inſtance of the Diurnal Motion of the Earth,taken from the Shot of a Piece of Ordinance perpendicularly, and the Anſwers to the ſame, ſhewing the Equivoke.153, 154The Anſwer to the Argument of the Shots of Canons made towards the North and South.158The Anſwer to the Argument taken from the Shots at point blank towards the Eaſt and Weſt.159The Anſwer to the Argument of the flying of Birds contrary to the Motion of the Earth.165An Experiment by which alone is ſhewn the Nullity of all the Arguments produced againſt the Motion of the Earth.165The Stupidity of ſome that think the Earth began to move, when Pythagoras began to affirme that it did ſo.167A Geometrical Demonſtration to prove the Impoſſibility of Extruſion, by means of the Earths Vertigo, in Anſwer to the ſixth
