Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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der his Art the more profitable, he reduceth the lofty, and eaſie-to
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be-miſtaken Speculations of the Theory, into certain and facile
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Directions for Practice; teaching us how to prevent and repaire
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the Breaches of Seas, and Inundations of Rivers; to draine
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and recover Fenns and Marches; to divert, conveigh and di
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ſtribute Waters for the Flowing and Stercoration of Grounds,
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ſtrengthening of Fortifications, ſerving of Aquaducts, preſer
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ving of Health (by cleanſing Streets, and ſcowring Sewers) and
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maintaining of Commerſe (by defending Bridges, cleering Ri
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vers, and opening Ports and Channels) with innumerable other
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>And, that I may omit no circumſtance
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that may recommend my Authour, the Fortune of this his Trea
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tiſe hath been ſuch, that as if he intended a
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Plus ultra
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or as if all men deſpaired to out-do it, or laſtly, as if
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CA
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STELLI
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hath been ſo great a
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Maſter
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that none have preſu
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med to take Pencil in hand for the finiſhing of what he
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Pour
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foild,
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this ſmall Tract like the Arabian Phœnix (of which it is
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Unica ſemper Avis)
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did for ſeveral years together continue
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ſingle in the World, till that to verifie it to be truly
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Phœnician,
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it renewed its Age by undergoing a ſecond Impreſſion. </
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this did not make out the Immortal vertue of it, it hath had
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Anno 1660
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a third Circulation, and riſen in this laſt Edition as
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it were from the Vrne of its Authour; and that ſo improved by
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the Addition of a ſecond part, that it promiſeth to perpetuate
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his Merits to all Poſterity. </
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Work reſounded the Honourable Name of
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CASTELLI
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to all the Corners of
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Italy,
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Europe;
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inſomuch,
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that, in hopes to reap great benefit by his Art, the reſpective
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Grandees of the adjacent Countries courted his Judgment and
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Advice about their Draining of Fenns, Diverſion of Rivers,
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Evacuation of Ports, Preventing of Inundations, &c. </
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every Summer he made one or more of theſe Journies or Viſitati
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Venice
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conſulted him about their
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Lake; to whom he delivered his Opinion in
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May 1641.
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and up
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on farther thoughts he preſented them with another Paper of Con
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ſiderations the
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20 December
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LEOPOLDO
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TUSCANY
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likewiſe requeſted his Advice in the begin
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ning of the enſuing year 1642, which occaſioned his Letter to
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Father
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Franceſco di San Giuſeppe,
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bearing date
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To which
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Signore Bartolotti
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oppoſing, he writes a ſecond Let
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ter, directed to one of the Commiſſioners of Sewers, vindicating
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his former, and refuting
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Bartolotti,
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both which I here give
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The Preferments which his Merits recommended him unto,
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were firſt to be Abbot of
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Caſſino,
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from which he was removed
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