Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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And becauſe that in the years paſt I had occaſion by Order of
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our Lord Pope
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8. to apply my thoughts to the motion of
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the Waters of Rivers, (a matter difficult, moſt important, and
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little handled by others) having concerning the ſame obſerved
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ſome particulars not well obſerved, or conſidered till now, but of
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great moment both in publick and private affairs; I have thought
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good to publiſh them, to the end that ingenious ſpirits might
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have occaſion to diſcuſſe more exactly then hitherto hath been
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done, ſo neceſſary and profitable a matter, and to ſupply alſo my
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defects in this ſhort and difficult Tractate. </
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the truth is, theſe knowledges, though of things next our ſenſes,
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are ſometimes more abſtruce and hidden, then the knowledge of
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things more remote; and much better, and with greater exquiſit
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neſs are known the motions of the Planets, and Periods of the
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Stars, than thoſe of Rivers and Seas: As that ſingular light of
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Philoſophie of our times, and my Maſter
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Signore Galileo Galilei
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wiſely obſerveth in his Book concerning the Solar ſpots. </
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to proceed with a due order in Sciences, I will take ſome ſuppo
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ſitions and cognitions ſufficiently clear; from which I will after
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to the end that what I have written at the end of this diſcourſe in
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a demonſtrative and Geometrical method, may alſo be under
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ſtood of thoſe which never have applyed their thoughts to the
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ſtudy of Geometry; I have endeavoured to explain my conceit
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by an example, and with the conſideration of the natural things
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themſelves, muſt after the ſame order in which I began to doubt
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in this matter; and have placed this particular Treatiſe here in
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the beginning, adverting nevertheleſs, that he who deſires more
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full and abſolute ſolidity of Reaſons, may overpaſs this prefatory
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diſcourſe, and onely conſider what is treated of in the demonſtra
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tions placed towards the end, and return afterwards to the conſi
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deration of the things collected in the
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Corollaries
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and Appendices;
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which demonſtrations notwithſtanding, may be pretermitted by
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him that hath not ſeen at leaſt the firſt ſix Books of the Elements
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of Euclid; ſo that he diligently obſerveth that which fol
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>I ſay therefore, that having in times paſt, on divers occaſi
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ons heard ſpeak of the meaſures of the waters of Rivers, and
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Fountains, ſaying, ſuch a River is two or three thouſand feet of
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water; ſuch a ſpring-water is twenty, thirty, or forty inches,
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&c.
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Although in ſuch manner I have found all to treat thereof in
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word and writing, without variety, and as we are wont to ſay,
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conſtanti ſermone,
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yea even Artiſts and Ingeneers, as if it were
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a thing that admitted not of any doubt, yet howſoever I re
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