Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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being ſuppoſed, and not granted, that ſome one being placed in the
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Moon to obſerve the Earth, he would every day ſee the whole
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Terreſtrial ſuperficies, by means of the Moons going about the
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Earth in twenty four or twenty five hours; but we never ſee but
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half of the Moon, ſince it revolves not in it ſelf, as it muſt do to
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be ſeen in every part of it.</
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volving in her ſelf, is the cauſe that we ſee not the other half of
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her, for ſo it would be neceſſary it ſhould be, if ſhe had the
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no more than half the Moon, whereas from the Moon one may ſee
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all the Earth; and on the contrary, all the Earth ſeeth the Moon, and
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but onely half of it ſeeth the Earth? </
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of the ſuperior Hemiſphere of the Moon, which is to us inviſible,
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are deprived of the ſight of the Earth: and theſe haply are the
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Anticthones.
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But here I remember a particular accident, newly
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obſerved by our
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Academian,
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in the Moon, from whch are gathered
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two neceſſary conſequences; one is, that we ſee ſomewhat more
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than half of the Moon; and the other is, that the motion of the
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Moon hath exact concentricity with the Earth: and thus he finds
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the
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Phœnomenon
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reſpondence and natural ſympathy with the Earth, towards which
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it hath its aſpect in ſuch a determinate part, it is neceſſary that the
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right line which conjoyns their centers, do paſſe ever by the ſame
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point of the Moons ſuperficies; ſo that, who ſo ſhall from the
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ter of the Earth behold the ſame, ſhall alwayes ſee the ſame
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Diſcus
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or Face of the Moon punctually determined by one and
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the ſame circumference; But if a man be placed upon the
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ſtrial ſurface, the ray which from his eye paſſeth to the centre of the
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Lunar Globe, will not paſs by the ſame point of its ſuperficies, by
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which the line paſſeth that is drawn from the centre of the Earth
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to that of the Moon, ſave onely when it is vertical to him: but
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the Moon being placed in the Eaſt, or in the Weſt, the point of
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incidence of the viſual ray, is higher than that of the line which
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conjoyns the centres; and therefore the obſerver may diſcern
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ſome part of the Lunar Hemiſphere towards the upper
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rence, and alike part of the other is inviſible: they are
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ble and undiſcernable, in reſpect of the Hemiſphere beheld from
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the true centre of the Earth: and becauſe the part of the Moons
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circumference, which is ſuperiour in its riſing, is nethermoſt in its
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ſetting; therefore the difference of the ſaid ſuperiour and </
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