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

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              imagine to our ſelves, muſt neceſſarily be either a thing already
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              ſeen, or a compoſition of things, or parts of things ſeen at
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              ther time; for ſuch are the
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              Sphinxes, Sirenes, Chimœra's,
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              taurs,
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              &c.</s>
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              The Moon hath
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              no generatings of
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              things, like as we
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              have, nor is it
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              habited by men.
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              In the Moon may
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              be a generation of
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              things different
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              from ours.
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              He that had not
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              heard of the
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              ment of Water,
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              could never fancy
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              to himſelf Ships
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              and Fiſhes.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I have very often let my fancy ruminate upon theſe
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              culations, and in the end, have thought that I had found ſome
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              things that neither are nor can be in the Moon; but yet I
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              have not found therein any of thoſe which I believe are, and may
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              be there, ſave onely in a very general acceptation, namely, things
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              that adorn it by operating, moving and living; and perhaps in a way
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              very different from ours; beholding and admiring the greatneſs and
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              beauty of the World, and of its Maker and Ruler, and with
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              continual
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              Encomiums
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              ſinging his prayſes; and in ſumme (which is
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              that which I intend) doing what ſacred Writers ſo frequently
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              firm, to wit, all the creatures making it their perpetual
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              ment to laud God.</s>
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              There may be
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              ſtances in the
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              Moon very
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              rent from ours.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Theſe are the things, which ſpeaking in general terms,
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              may be there; but I would gladly hear you inſtance in ſuch as you
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              believe neither are nor can be there; which perchance may be
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              more particularly named.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Take notice
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              Sagredus
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              that this will be the third time
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              that we have unawares by running from one thing to another, loſt
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              our principal ſubject; and if we continue theſe digreſſions, it
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              will be longere we come to a concluſion of our diſcourſe;
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              fore I ſhould judg it better to remit this, as alſo ſuch other points,
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              to be decided on a particular occaſion.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Since we are now got into the Moon, if you pleaſe, let
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              us diſpatch ſuch things as concern her, that ſo we be not forced to
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              ſuch another tedious journey.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It ſhall be as you would have it. </s>
              <s>And to begin with
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              things more general, I believe that the Lunar Globe is far
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              rent from the Terreſtrial, though in ſome things they agree. </s>
              <s>I will
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              recount firſt their reſemblances, and next their differences. </s>
              <s>The
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              Moon is manifeſtly like to the Earth in figure, which undoubtedly
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              is ſpherical, as may be neceſſarily concluded from the aſpect of its
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              ſurface, which is perfectly Orbicular, and the manner of its
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              ceiving the light of the Sun, from which, if its ſurface were flat,
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              it would come to be all in one and the ſame time illuminated, and
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              likewiſe again in another inſtant of time obſcured, and not thoſe
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              parts firſt, which are ſituate towards the Sun, and the reſt
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              ſively, ſo that in its oppoſition, and not till then, its whole
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              apparent circumference is enlightned; which would happen quite
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              contrary, if the viſible ſurface were concave; namely, the
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              mination would begin from the parts oppoſite or averſe to the Sun.
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              <s>Secondly ſhe is as the Earth, in her ſelf obſcure and opacous, by
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              which opacity it is enabled to receive, and reflect the light of the </s>
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