Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6789

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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Since you incourage me so much I will proceded in
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            thos calculations of, [Mars]. and as I finish anie I will
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            send them unto you. indeed to find the issue so
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            [???] and in the later so impossible to be re-
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            conciled had utterlie discouraged me, but that
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            now by your letter I perceave ther may bee good
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            use made such of ther discordance; therfore of
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            this I will say no more till I send you more.
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            the leasure that the countrie life affordeth us here
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            hath given me meanes to run over manie things
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            since I left the course of calculation; but amongst
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            others the, 3. vexations of scientificall mortals hath
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            held me most to wit the squaringe of the circle the
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            dubblinge of the Cube and the Philosophers stone. from the
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            two first I am come of handsomelie enough and
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            have made my selfe much sporte in the discove-
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            rie of mine owne parallogismes. but in the later
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            I sticke still and am like to make you sporte
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            ere I come fairelie of. but indeed I have here
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            much otime and therfore I may cast awaye some
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            of it in vaine pursuites. chusynge alwayes ra-
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            ther to doe somethinge worth nothinge then no-
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            thinge att all. How farre I had proceeded in
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            this, I ment now to have given you an account,
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            but that the report of the unfortunate erles re-
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            lapse into calamitie make me beleve that
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            you are enough troubled both with his misfortuntes
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            and my La: troubles; and so a discourse of this
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            nature would be unseasonable. neverthelesse
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            give me leave to crave a worde or two in
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            answere of thes doubts which I will breifelie pro
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            pound as </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 1. first whether, [sun]. and, [moon]. bodies so difficulte
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            be dissolved as alchimists affirme. I meane
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            by dissolution(as I thinke they doe) that they
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            must
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            bee putrified and </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 2. if they may be dissolved, whether with one simple
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            alone or with </s>
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