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

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                <cell>12. And upon the obſervations of
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                Munoſius
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                and
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                Vrſinus
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                with Parall. of 1
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                gr. 36 m.
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                and the di-ſtance from the centre cometh forth leſſe than</cell>
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                ſemid.
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              <s>Theſe are twelve indagations made by the Author at his
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              on, amongſt many which, as he ſaith, might be made by
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              ning the obſervations of theſe thirteen obſervators. </s>
              <s>The which
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              twelve we may believe to be the moſt favourable to prove his
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              intention.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I would know whether amongſt the ſo many other
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              dagations pretermitted by the Author, there were not ſome that
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              made againſt him, that is, from which calculating one might find
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              the new ſtar to have been above the Moon, as at the very firſt
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              ſight I think we may reaſonably queſtion; in regard I ſee theſe
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              already produced to be ſo different from one another, that ſome
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              of them give me the diſtance of the ſaid ſtar from the Earth, 4, 6,
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              10, 100, a thouſand, and an hundred thouſand times bigger one
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              than another; ſo that I may well ſuſpect that amongſt thoſe that
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              he did not calculate, there was ſome one in fauour of the adverſe
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              party. </s>
              <s>And I gueſſe this to be the more probable, for that I
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              not conceive that thoſe Aſtronomers the obſervators could want
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              the knowledg and practice of theſe computations, which I think
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              do not depend upon the abſtruceſt things in the World. </s>
              <s>And
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              deed it will ſeem to me a thing more than miraculous, if whilſt in
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              theſe twelve inveſtigations onely, there are ſome that make the
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              ſtar to be diſtant from the Earth but a few miles, and others that
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              make it to be but a very fmall matter below the Moon, there are
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              none to be found that in favour of the contrary part do make it
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              ſo much as twenty yards above the Lunar Orb. </s>
              <s>And that which
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              ſhall be yet again more extravagant, that all thoſe Aſtronomers
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              ſhould have been ſo blind as not to have diſcovered that their ſo
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              apparent miſtake.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Begin now to prepare your ears to hear with infinite
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              admiration to what exceſſes of confidence of ones own authority
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              and others folly, the deſire of contradicting and ſhewing ones
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              ſelf wiſer than others, tranſports a man. </s>
              <s>Amongſt the
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              tions omitted by the Author, there are ſuch to be found as make
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              the new ſtar not onely above the Moon, but above the fixed
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              ſtars alſo. </s>
              <s>And theſe are not a few, but the greater part, as you
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              ſhall ſee in this other paper, where I have ſet them down.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But what ſaith the Author to theſe? </s>
              <s>It may be he did
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              not think of them?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>He hath thought of them but too much: but ſaith, that
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              the obſervations upon which the calculations make the ſtar to be
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              infinitely remote, are erroneous, and that they cannot be
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              bined to one another.</s>
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