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

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              ſmalneſſe of the body of this, in compariſon to the magnitude
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              of the other, it cannot be denied but that the
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              will
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              and as it
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              were
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              valour
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              of this, is very great. </s>
              <s>Thus much for their
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              gruities or reſemblances. </s>
              <s>It ſhould next follow that we diſcourſe
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              touching their diſparity; but becauſe
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              Simplicius
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              will favour us
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              with his objections againſt the former, its neceſſary that we hear
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              and examine them, before we proceed any farther.</s>
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              Seventhly, The
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              Earth and Moon
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              do mutually eclipſe.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And the rather, becauſe it is to be ſuppoſed that
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              Simplicius
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              will not any wayes oppoſe the diſparities, and
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              gruities betwixt the Earth and Moon, ſince that he accounts their
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              ſubſtances extremely different.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>Amongſt the reſemblances by you recited, in the
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              rallel you make betwixt the Earth and Moon, I find that I can
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              admit none confidently ſave onely the firſt, and two others; I
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              grant the firſt, namely, the ſpherical figure; howbeit, even in
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              this there is ſome kind of difference, for that I hold that of the
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              Moon to be very ſmooth and even, as a looking-glaſſe,
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              as, we find and feel this of the Earth to be extraordinary
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              ous and rugged; but this belonging to the inequality of
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              cies, it ſhall be anon conſidered, in another of thoſe
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              ces by you alledged; I ſhall therefore reſerve what I have to ſay
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              thereof, till I come to the conſideration of that. </s>
              <s>Of what you
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              affirm next, that the Moon ſeemeth, as you ſay in your ſecond
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              Reſemblance, opacous and obſcure in its ſelf, like the Earth; I
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              admit not any more than the firſt attribute of opacity, of which
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              the Eclipſes of the Sun aſſure me. </s>
              <s>For were the Moon
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              rent, the air in the total obſcuration of the Sun, would not
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              come ſo duskiſh, as at ſuch a time it is, but by means of the
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              tranſparency of the body of the Moon, a refracted light would
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              paſſe through it, as we ſee it doth through the thickeſt clouds. </s>
              <s>But
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              as to the obſcurity, I believe not that the Moon is wholly
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              ved of light, as the Earth; nay, that clarity which is ſeen in the
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              remainder of its
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              Diſcus,
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              over and above the ſmall creſcent
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              lightened by the Sun, I repute to be its proper and natural light,
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              and not a reflection of the Earth, which I eſteem unable, by
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              reaſon of its aſperity (craggineſſe) and obſcurity, to reflect the
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              raies of the Sun. </s>
              <s>In the third Parallel I aſſent unto you in one
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              part, and diſſent in another: I agree in judging the body of the
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              Moon to be moſt ſolid and hard, like the Earth, yea much more;
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              for if from
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              Ariſtotle
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              we receive that the Heavens are impenetrable,
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              and the Stars the moſt denſe parts of Heaven, it muſt neceſſarily
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              follow, that they are moſt ſolid and moſt impenetrable.</s>
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              The ſecond clarity
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              of the Moon
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              ſteemed to be its
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              native light.
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              The Earth unable
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              to reflect the Suns
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              raies.
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              The ſubſtance of
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              the Heavens
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              netrable,
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              ing to
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              Ariſtotle.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>What excellent matter would the Heavens afford us for
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              to make Pallaces of, if we could procure a ſubſtance ſo hard and ſo
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              tranſparent?</s>
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