Salusbury, Thomas
,
Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
,
1667
Text
Text Image
Image
XML
Thumbnail overview
Document information
None
Concordance
Figures
Thumbnails
page
|<
<
of 701
>
>|
<
archimedes
>
<
text
>
<
body
>
<
chap
>
<
p
type
="
main
">
<
s
>
<
pb
xlink:href
="
040/01/094.jpg
"
pagenum
="
78
"/>
towards the Sun it is bounded by the lucid horns of the Moon,
<
lb
/>
and on the other part, its confining term is the obſcure tract of the
<
lb
/>
twilight; whoſe relation makes us think the candor of the Moons
<
lb
/>
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
Diſcus
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
to be ſo much the clearer; the which happens to be
<
lb
/>
fuſcated in the oppoſite part, by the greater clarity of the
<
lb
/>
cents; but if this modern Author had eſſaied to make an
<
lb
/>
<
arrow.to.target
n
="
marg200
"/>
<
lb
/>
poſition between the eye and the primary ſplendor, by the ridg of
<
lb
/>
ſome houſe, or ſome other ſcreen, ſo as to have left viſible only
<
lb
/>
the groſe of the Moon, the horns excluded, he might have ſeen
<
lb
/>
it all alike luminous.</
s
>
</
p
>
<
p
type
="
margin
">
<
s
>
<
margin.target
id
="
marg197
"/>
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
Its all one
<
lb
/>
ther opinions be
<
lb
/>
new to men, or men
<
lb
/>
new to opinions.
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
</
s
>
</
p
>
<
p
type
="
margin
">
<
s
>
<
margin.target
id
="
marg198
"/>
*
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
Conteſtare
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
falſly
<
lb
/>
rendered in the
<
lb
/>
Latine Tranſlation
<
lb
/>
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
content are.
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
</
s
>
</
p
>
<
p
type
="
margin
">
<
s
>
<
margin.target
id
="
marg199
"/>
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
The ſecondary
<
lb
/>
light of the Moon
<
lb
/>
appears in form of
<
lb
/>
a Ring, that is to
<
lb
/>
ſay, bright in the
<
lb
/>
extreme
<
lb
/>
rence, and not in
<
lb
/>
the midſt, and why.
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
</
s
>
</
p
>
<
p
type
="
margin
">
<
s
>
<
margin.target
id
="
marg200
"/>
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
The may to
<
lb
/>
ſerve the
<
lb
/>
ry light of the
<
lb
/>
Moon.
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
</
s
>
</
p
>
<
p
type
="
main
">
<
s
>SIMPL, I think, now I remember, that he writes of his
<
lb
/>
making uſe of ſuch another Artifice, to hide from us the falſe
<
lb
/>
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
Incidum.
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
</
s
>
</
p
>
<
p
type
="
main
">
<
s
>SALV. Oh! how is this (as I believed) inadvertency of his,
<
lb
/>
changed into a lie, bordering on raſhneſſe; for that every one
<
lb
/>
may frequently make proof of the contrary. </
s
>
<
s
>That in the next
<
lb
/>
<
arrow.to.target
n
="
marg201
"/>
<
lb
/>
place, at the Suns Eclipſe, the Moons
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
Diſcus
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
is ſeen otherwayes
<
lb
/>
than by privation, I much doubt, and ſpecially when the
<
lb
/>
clipſe is not total, as thoſe muſt neceſſarily have been, which
<
lb
/>
were obſerved by the Author; but if alſo he ſhould have
<
lb
/>
red ſomewhat of light, this contradicts not, rather favoureth our
<
lb
/>
opinion; for that at ſuch a time, the whole Terreſtrial
<
lb
/>
ſphere illuminated by the Sun, is oppoſite to the Moon, ſo that
<
lb
/>
although the Moons ſhadow doth obſcure a part thereof, yet this
<
lb
/>
is very ſmall in compariſon of that which remains illuminated.
<
lb
/>
</
s
>
<
s
>That which he farther adds, that in this caſe, the part of the
<
lb
/>
limb, lying under the Sun, doth appear very lucid, but that
<
lb
/>
which lyeth beſides it, not ſo; and that to proceed from the
<
lb
/>
ming of the ſolar rayes directly through that part to the eye, but
<
lb
/>
not through this, is really one of thoſe fopperies, which diſco
<
lb
/>
ver the other fictions, of him which relates them: For if it be
<
lb
/>
requiſite to the making a ſecondary light viſible in the lunar
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
<
lb
/>
cus,
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
that the rayes of the Sun came directly through it to our
<
lb
/>
eyes, doth not this pitiful Philoſopher perceive, that we ſhould
<
lb
/>
ver ſee this ſame ſecondary light, ſave onely at the Eclipſe of the
<
lb
/>
Sun? </
s
>
<
s
>And if a part onely of the Moon, far leſſe than half a
<
lb
/>
gree, by being remote from the Suns
<
emph
type
="
italics
"/>
Diſcus,
<
emph.end
type
="
italics
"/>
can deflect or
<
lb
/>
viate the rayes of the Sun, ſo that they arrive not at our eye;
<
lb
/>
what ſhall it do when it is diſtant twenty or thirty degrees, as it is
<
lb
/>
at its firſt apparition? </
s
>
<
s
>and what courſe ſhall the rayes of the Sun
<
lb
/>
keep, which are to paſſe thorow the body of the Moon, that
<
lb
/>
<
arrow.to.target
n
="
marg202
"/>
<
lb
/>
they may find out our eye? </
s
>
<
s
>This man doth go ſucceſſively
<
lb
/>
dering what things ought to be, that they may ſerve his purpoſe,
<
lb
/>
but doth not gradually proceed, accommodating his conceits to
<
lb
/>
the things, as really they are. </
s
>
<
s
>As for inſtance, to make the light </
s
>
</
p
>
</
chap
>
</
body
>
</
text
>
</
archimedes
>