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

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              what birds, what balls, and what other pretty things are here?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Theſe are balls which come from the concave of the
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              Moon.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And what is this?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>This is a kind of Shell-fiſh, which here at
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              Venice
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              they
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              call
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              buovoli
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              ; and this alſo came from the Moons concave.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. Indeed, it ſeems then, that the Moon hath a great
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              er over theſe Oyſter-fiſhes, which we call ^{*}
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              armed ſiſbes.
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              * Peſci armai,
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              or
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              armati.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>And this is that calculation, which I mentioned, of this
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              Journey in a natural day, in an hour, in a firſt minute, and in a
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              ſecond, which a point of the Earth would make placed under the
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              Equinoctial, and alſo in the parallel of 48
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              gr.
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              And then followeth
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              this, which I doubted I had committed ſome miſtake in reciting,
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              therefore let us read it.
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              His poſitis, neceſſe est, terra circulariter
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              mota, omnia ex aëre eidem, &c. </s>
              <s>Quod ſi haſce pilas æquales
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              nemus pondere, magnitudine, gravitate, & in concavo Sphæræ
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              naris poſitas libero deſcenſui permittamus, ſi motum deorſum
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              mus celeritate motui circum, (quod tamen ſecus eſt, cum pila A,
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              &c.) elabentur minimum (ut multum cedamus adverſariis) dies
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              ſex: quo tempore ſexies circa terram, &c. [In Engliſb thus.]
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              Theſe things being ſuppoſed, it is neceſſary, the Earth being
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              cularly moved, that all things from the air to the ſame, &c. </s>
              <s>So
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              that if we ſuppoſe theſe balls to be equal in magnitude and
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              vity, and being placed in the concave of the Lunar Sphere, we
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              permit them a free deſcent, and if we make the motion
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              wards equal in velocity to the motion about, (which nevertheleſs
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              is otherwiſe, if the ball A, &c.) they ſhall be falling at leaſt (that
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              we may grant much to our adverſaries) ſix dayes; in which time
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              they ſhall be turned ſix times about the Earth, &c.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You have but too faithfully cited the argument of this
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              perſon. </s>
              <s>From hence you may collect
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              Simplicius,
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              with what
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              tion they ought to proceed, who would give themſelves up to
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              lieve others in thoſe things, which perhaps they do not believe
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              themſelves. </s>
              <s>For me thinks it a thing impoſſible, but that this
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              thor was adviſed, that he did deſign to himſelf a circle, whoſe
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              meter (which amongſt Mathematicians, is leſſe than one third part
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              of the circumference) is above 72 times bigger than it ſelf: an
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              errour that affirmeth that to be conſiderably more than 200,
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              which is leſſe than one.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>It may be, that theſe Mathematical proportions, which
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              are true in abſtract, being once applied in concrete to Phyſical and
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              Elementary circles, do not ſo exactly agree: And yet, I think,
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              that the Cooper, to find the ſemidiameter of the bottom, which he
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              is to fit to the Cask, doth make uſe of the rule of Mathematicians
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              in abſtract, although ſuch bottomes be things meerly material, </s>
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