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

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              to conſide ſo much in that which reaſon dictated to them, as that
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              they have conſidently affirmed that the ſtructure of the Univerſe
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              could have no other figure than that which they deſigned to
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              ſelves. </s>
              <s>There are alſo ſeveral other very ſerious and curious doubts,
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              not ſo eaſie to be reſolved by the middle ſort of wits, but yet
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              netrated and declared by
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              Coperninus,
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              which we ſhall defer till by
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              and by, after we have anſwered to other objections that ſeem to
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              make againſt this opinion. </s>
              <s>Now coming to the declarations and
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              anſwers to thoſe three before named grand Objections, I ſay, that
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              the two firſt not onely contradict not the
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              Copernican
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              Syſteme, but
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              greatly and abſolutely favour it; For both
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              Mars
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              and
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              Venus
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              ſeems
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              unequal to themſelves, according to the proportions aſſigned; and
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              Venus
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              under the Sun ſeemeth horned, and goeth changing figures
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              in it ſelf exactly like the Moon.</s>
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              Mars
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              makes an
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              hot aſſault upon the
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              Copernican
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              ſteme.
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              The
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              na
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              of
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              Venus
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              appear
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              contrary to the
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              ſteme of
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              cus.</s>
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              Another
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              culty raiſed by
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              nus
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              againſt
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              nicus.</s>
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              Venus,
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              according
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              to
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              Copernicus,
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              ther lucid in it
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              ſelf, or elſe of a
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              tranſparent
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              ſtance.
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              Copernicus
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              eth nothing of the
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              ſmall variation of
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              bigneſs in
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              Venus
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              and in
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              Mars.</s>
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              The moon much
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              diſturbeth the
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              der of the other
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              Planets.
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              Anſwers to the
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              three first
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              ons againſt the
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              pernican
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              Syſteme.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But how came this to be concealed from
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              Copernicus,
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              and revealed to you?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Theſe things cannot be comprehended, ſave onely by
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              the ſenſe of ſeeing, the which by nature was not granted to man
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              ſo perfect, as that it was able to attain to the diſcovery of ſuch
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              ferences; nay even the very inſtrument of ſight is an impediment
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              to it ſelf: But ſince that it hath pleaſed God in our age to
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              ſafe to humane ingenuity, ſo admirable an invention of perfecting
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              our ſight, by multiplying it four, ſix, ten, twenty, thirty, and
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              ty times, infinite objects, that either by reaſon of their diſtance, or
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              for their extream ſmallneſſe were inviſible unto us, have by help
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              of the Teleſcope been rendered viſible.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But
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              Venus
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              and
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              Mars
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              are none of the objects inviſible
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              for their diſtance or ſmallneſſe, yea, we do diſcern them with our
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              bare natural ſight; why then do we not diſtinguiſh the differences
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              of their magnitudes and figures?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>In this, the impediment of our very eye it ſelf hath a
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              great ſhare, as but even now I hinted, by which the reſplendent and
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              remote objects are not repreſented to us ſimple and pure; but gives
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              them us fringed with ſtrange and adventitious rayes, ſo long and
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              denſe, that their naked body ſheweth to us agrandized ten,
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              ty, an hundred, yea a thouſand times more than it would appear, if
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              the capillitious rayes were taken away.</s>
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              Thereaſon whence
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              it happens that
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              nus
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              and
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              Mars
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              do
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              not appear to vary
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              magnitude ſo much
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              as is requiſite.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Now I remember that I have read ſomething on this
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              ſubject, I know not whether in the Solar Letters, or in the
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              giatore
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              of our common Friend, but it would be very good, aſwell
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              for recalling it into my memory, as for the information of
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              cius,
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              who it may be never ſaw thoſe writings, that you would
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              clare unto us more diſtinctly how this buſineſſe ſtands, the
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              ledge whereof I think to be very neceſſary for the aſſiſting of us to
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              underſtand that of which we now ſpeak.</s>
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