Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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imagine to our ſelves, muſt neceſſarily be either a thing already
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Sphinxes, Sirenes, Chimœra'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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habited by men.
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In the Moon may
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things different
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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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>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.</
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There may be
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ſtances in the
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Moon very
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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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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.</
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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.</
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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. </
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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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mination would begin from the parts oppoſite or averſe to the Sun.
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