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

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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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              tinually move. </s>
              <s>But yet, muſt we not therefore grant, that
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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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              as before,” do within a determinate time return again. </s>
              <s>This
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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.</s>
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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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              on, (Miſtaking
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              Tempectata,
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              aword
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              in Heraldry, for
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              Tempeſtato,
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              )
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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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              a Ship.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>If this of which we diſpute, were ſome point of Law,
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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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              and
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              a thouſand
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              Ariſtotles
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              at his feet. </s>
              <s>Therefore reject thoſe hopes
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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. </s>
              <s>And ſeeing that of all
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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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              diſtance from the circumference of the Sun; a neceſſary </s>
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