Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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figure; and moveth circularly, hath neceſſarily, and in reſpect of
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its figure a centre; and we being moreover certain, that within
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the ſtarry Sphere there are many Orbs, the one within another,
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with their ſtars, which likewiſe do move circulary, it is in diſpute
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whether it is moſt reaſonable to believe and to ſay that theſe
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teined Orbs do move round the ſaid centre of the World, or elſe
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we were ſure that we might encounter nothing elſe that might
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ſturb us, I would ſay that it were much more reaſonable to
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firm that the Orb containing, and the parts contained, do all
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move about one common centre, than about divers.</
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Its more
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nal that the Orb
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conteining, and the
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parts conteined, do
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move all about one
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centre, than uoon
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divers.
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ſame about which the Orbs of mundane bodies, that is to ſay, of
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the Planets, move, it is moſt certain that it is not the Earth, but
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the Sun rather that is fixed in the centre of the World. </
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to this firſt ſimple and general apprehenſion, the middle place
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belongeth to the Sun, and the Earth is as far remote from the
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centre, as it is from that ſame Sun.</
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If the centre of
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the World be the
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ſame with that
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bout which the
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nees move the Sun
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and not the Earth
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is placed in it.
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the Sun is in the centre of the Planetary revolutions?</
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ceſſarily concludent obſervations, of which the moſt palpable to
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exclude the Earth from the ſaid centre, and to place the Sun
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therein, are, the ſeeing all the Planets one while neerer and
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ther while farther off from the Earth with ſo great differences, that
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for example,
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Venus
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when it is at the fartheſt, is ſix times more
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remote from us, than when it is neereſt, and
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Mars
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riſeth almoſt
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eight times as high at one time as at another. </
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Ariſtotle
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was not ſomewhat miſtaken in thinking that it was
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at all times couidiſtant from us.</
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Obſervations from
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whence it is
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lected that the Sun
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and not the Earth
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is in the centre of
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the Celeſtial
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lutions.
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ons are about the Sun?</
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Mars,
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and
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Saturn,
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in that we find them alwayes neereſt to the
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Earth when they are in oppoſition to the Sun, and fartheſt off
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when they are towards the conjunction, and this approximatian
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and receſſion importeth thus much that
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Mars
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neer at hand,
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peareth very neer 60 times greater than when it is remote. </
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in the next place, and to
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Mercury,
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we are certain that
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they revolve about the Sun, in that they never move far from
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him, and in that we ſee them one while above and another while
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below it, as the mutations of figure in
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