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

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              alledged. </s>
              <s>For theſe birds which at their pleaſure flie
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              wards and backwards, and wind to and again in a thouſand
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              faſhions, and, which more importeth, lie whole hours upon the
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              wing, theſe I ſay do not a little poſe me, nor do I ſee, how
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              mongſt ſo many circumgyrations, they ſhould not loſe the motion
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              of the Earth, and how they ſhould be able to keep pace with
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              ſo great a velocity as that which they ſo far exceed with their flight.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>To ſpeak the truth, your ſcruple is not without reaſon,
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              and its poſſible
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              Copernicus
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              himſelf could not find an anſwer for it,
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              that was to himſelf entirely ſatisfactory; and therefore haply paſt
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              it over in ſilence albeit he was, indeed, very brief in examining
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              the other allegations of his adverſaries, I believe through his
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              height of wit, placed on greater aud ſublimer contemplations,
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              like as Lions are not much moved at the barking of little Dogs.
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              <s>We will therefore reſerve the inſtance of birds to the laſt place,
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              and for the preſent, ſee if we can give
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              Simplicius
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              ſatisfaction in
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              the others, by ſhewing him in our wonted manner, that he
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              ſelf hath their anſwers at hand, though upon firſt thoughts he doth
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              not diſcover them. </s>
              <s>And to begin with the ſhots made at randome,
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              with the ſelf ſame piece, powder, and ball, the one towards the Eaſt,
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              the other towards the Weſt, let him tell me what it is that perſwades
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              him to think that the Range towards the Weſt (if the diurnal
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              verſion belonged to the Earth) ought to be much longer than that
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              towards the
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              The reaſon why
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              a Gun ſhould ſiem
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              to carry farther
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              wards the Weſt
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              than towards the
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              Eaſt.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I am moved ſo to think; becauſe in the ſhot made
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              wards the Eaſt, the ball whil'ſt it is out of the piece, is
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              ed by the ſaid piece, the which being carried round by the Earth,
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              runneth alſo with much velocity towards the ſame part,
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              upon the fall of the ball to the ground, cometh to be but little
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              diſtant from the piece. </s>
              <s>On the contrary in the ſhot towards the
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              Weſt, before that the ball falleth to the ground, the piece is
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              tired very far towards the Eaſt, by which means the ſpace
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              tween the ball and the piece, that is Range, will appear longer
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              than the other, by how much the piece, that is the Earth, had
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              run in the time that both the bals were in the air.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I could wiſh, that we did know ſome way to make an
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              experiment correſponding to the motion of theſe projects, as that
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              of the ſhip doth to the motion of things perpendicularly falling
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              from on high; and I am thinking how it may be done.</s>
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              The experiment
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              of a running
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              riot to find out the
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              difference of
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              ges.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I believe, that it would be a very oppoſite proof, to
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              take an open Chariot, and to accomodate therein a ^{*}Stock-bow
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              at half elevation, to the end the flight may prove the greateſt </s>
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              that my be, and whil'ſt the horſes ſhall run, to ſhoot firſt towards
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              the part whither you drive, and then another backwards towards
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              the contrary part, cauſing ſome one to mark diligently where
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              the Chariot was in that moment f time when the ſhaft came to </s>
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