Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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no bigger than a Cart-wheel, with making not 365, but leſſe than
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20 revolutions, to deſcribe and meaſure the circumference, not
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onely of the grand Orb, but of one a thouſand times greater;
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and this I ſ y to ſhew, that there do not want far greater
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ties, than this wherewith your Author goeth about to detect the
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errour of
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Copernicus
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: but I pray you, let us breath a little, that
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ſo we may proceed to the other Philoſopher, that oppoſeth of the
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ſame
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It is not
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cumference of a
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than any great
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ſpite as either of you; though I have onely wearied my eares:
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and were it not that I hope to hear more ingenious things from
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this other Author, I queſtion whether I ſhould not go my ways, to
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take the air in my ^{*} Pleaſure-boat.</
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for this is a moſt accompliſhed Philoſopher, and a great
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tician, and hath confuted
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Tycho
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in the buſineſſe of the Comets,
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* The name of
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the
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pie Claramontius.
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called
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Anti-Tycho
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Stars is not in his
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onely ſo far as he proveth, that they
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were not prejudicial to the inalterability and ingenerability of the
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Heavens, as I told you before; but after he had publiſhed his
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Anti-Tycho,
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having found out, by help of the Parallaxes, a way to
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demonſtrate, that they alſo are things elementary, and contained
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within the concave of the Moon, he hath writ this other Book,
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de tribus uovis Stellis, &c.
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and therein alſo inſerted the
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ments againſt
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Copernicus
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: I have already ſhewn you what he
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harh written touching theſe new Stars in his
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where he
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denied not, but that they were in the Heavens; but he proved, that
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their production altered not the inalterability of the Heavens, and
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that he did, with a Diſcourſe purely philoſophical, in the ſame man
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that he afterwards did finde out a way to remove them out of the
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Heavens; for he proceeding in this confutation, by way of
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putations and parallaxes, matters little or nothing at all
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ſtood by me, I did not mention them to you, but have bent all my
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ſtudies upon theſe arguments againſt the motion of the Earth,
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which are purely natural.</
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after we have heard what he hath to ſay againſt
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Copernicus,
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that
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we hear, or ſee at leaſt the manner wherewith he, by way of
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rallaxes, proveth thoſe new ſtars to be elementary, which ſo many
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famous Aſtronomers conſtitute to be all very high, and amongſt
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the ſtars of the Firmament; and as this Author accompliſheth ſuch </
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