Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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lar figures, and ſeem to us like flakes of ſnow, or flocks of
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wooll, or moaths flying: they vary ſite amongſt themſelves,
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and one while ſever, another while meet, and moſt of all
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neath the Sun, about which, as about their Centre, they
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they are generated or diſſolved, but that at ſometimes they are
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hid behind the body of the Sun, and at other times, though
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remote from it, yet are they not ſeen for the vicinity of the
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immeaſurable light of the Sun; in regard that in the eccentrick
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Orb of the Sun, there is conſtituted, as it were, an Onion,
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poſed of many folds one within another, each of which, being
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^{*}ſtudded with certain ſmall ſpots, doth move; and albeit their
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motion at firſt ſeemeth inconſtant and irregular, yet
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leſſe, it is ſaid at laſt, to be obſerved that the very ſame ſpots,
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ſeemeth to me the fitteſt anſwer that hath been found to aſſigne
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a reaſon of that ſame appearance, and withal to maintain the
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incorruptability and ingenerability of the Heavens; and if this
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doth not ſuffice; there wants not more elevated wits, which will
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give you other, more convincing.</
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Sundry opinions
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touching the Solar
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ſpots.
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* The Original
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ſaith [
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tempeſtata ſi
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muove
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] which the
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Latine
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Tempectata,
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aword
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dereth [
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incitata
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movetur
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] which
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ſignifieth a violent
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tranſportmeut, as
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in a ſtorm, that of
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or other part of the Studies called
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Humanity,
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wherein there is
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neither truth nor falſhood, if we will give ſufficient credit to
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the acuteneſſe of the wit, readineſſe of anſwers, and the
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ral practice of Writers, then he who moſt aboundeth in theſe,
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makes his reaſon more probable and plauſible; but in Natural
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Sciences, the concluſions of which are true and neceſſary, and
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wherewith the judgment of men hath nothing to do, one is to
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be more cautious how he goeth about to maintain any thing that
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is falſe; for a man but of an ordinary wit, if it be his good
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tune to be of the right ſide, may lay a thouſand
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Demoſthenes
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a thouſand
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Ariſtotles
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and conceits, wherewith you flatter your ſelf, that there can be
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any men ſo much more learned, read, and verſed in Authors,
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than we, that in deſpite of nature, they ſhould be able to
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make that become true, which is falſe. </
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the opinions that have been hitherto alledged touching the
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ſence of theſe Solar ſpots, this inſtanced in by you, is in your
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judgment the trueſt, it followeth (if this be ſo) that all the reſt
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are falſe; and to deliver you from this alſo, which doubtleſſe is a
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moſt falſe
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Chimœra,
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over-paſſing infinite other improbabilities
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that are therein, I ſhall propoſe againſt it onely two experiments;
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one is, that many of thoſe ſpots are ſeen to ariſe in the midſt of
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the Solar ring, and many likewiſe to diſſolve and vaniſh at a great
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