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

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              <s>CONSIDER ATIONS
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              Concerning the
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              LAKE
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              OF
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              VENICE.
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              BY</s>
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              <s>D. BENEDETTO CASTELLI,
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              Abbot of S.
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              Benedetto Aloyſio,
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              Mathematician to
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              Pope
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              VR BAN VIII.
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              and Profeſſor in
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              ROME.</s>
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              CONSIDERATION I.
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              <s>Though the principal cauſe be but one
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              onely, that in my judgment threatneth
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              irreparable ruine to the Lake of
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              Venice,
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              in the preſent ſtate in which it
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              now ſtands; Yet nevertheleſſe, I think
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              that two Heads may be conſidered.
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              <s>And this Conſideration may peradven­
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              ture ſerve us for to facilitate and explain
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              the opportune remedies, though not to
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              render the ſtate of things abſolutely unchangeable and eternal:
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              an enterprize impoſſible, and eſpecially in that which having had
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              ſome beginning, ought likewiſe neceſſarily to have its end; or
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              at leaſt to prevent the danger for many hundreds of years; and
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              poſſibly it may, in the mean time, by the mutation it ſelf be
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              brought into a better condition.</s>
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              <s>I ſay therefore, that the preſent diſorder may be conſidered
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              under two Heads; One is the very notable diſcovery of Land
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              that is obſerved at the time of low Water, the which, beſides
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              the obſtructing of Navigation in the Lake and alſo in the
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              Chanels, doth likewiſe threaten another miſchief and diſorder </s>
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