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

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              an enterprize of pulling the new ſtars out of heaven, and placing
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              them in the elementary Sphere, he ſhall be worthy to be highly
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              exalted, and transferred himſelf amongſt the ſtars, or at leaſt,
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              that his name be by fame eternized amongſt them. </s>
              <s>Yet before we
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              enter upon this, let us hear what he alledgeth againſt the opinion
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              of
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              Copernicus,
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              and do you begin to recite his Arguments.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>It will not be neceſſary that we read them
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              ad verbum,
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              becauſe they are very prolix; but I, as you may ſee, in reading
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              them ſeveral times attentively, have marked in the margine thoſe
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              words, wherein the ſtrength of his arguments lie, and it will
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              ſuffice to read them. </s>
              <s>The ſirſt Argument beginneth here.
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              Et
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              primo, ſi opinio Copernici recipiatur, Criterium naturalis
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              ſophiæ, ni prorſus tollatur, vehementer ſaltem labefactari
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              videtur.
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              [In our Idiom thus] And firſt, if
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              Copernicus
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              his opinion
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              be imbraced, the
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              Criterium
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              of natural Philoſophy will be, if not
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              wholly ſubverted, yet at leaſt extreamly ſhaken.</s>
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              The opinion of
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              Copernicus
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              throws the
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              rium
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              of Philoſophy
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              <s>Which, according to the opinion of all the ſects of Philoſophers
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              requireth, that Senſe and Experience be our guides in
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              ting: But in the
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              Copernican
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              poſition the Senſes are greatly
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              ded, whil'ſt that they viſibly diſcover neer at hand in a pure
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              um,
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              the graveſt bodies to deſcend perpendicularly downwards,
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              ver deviating a ſingle hairs breadth from rectitude; and yet
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              ding to the opinion of
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              Copernicus,
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              the ſight in ſo manifeſt a thing
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              is deceived, and that motion is not reall ſtraight, but mixt of
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              right and circular.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>This is the firſt argument, that
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              Ariſtotle, Ptolomy,
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              and
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              all their followers do produce; to which we have
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              ly anſwered, and ſhewn the Paralogiſme, and with ſufficient
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              plainneſſe proved, that the motion in common to us and other
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              veables, is, as if there were no ſuch thing; but becauſe true
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              cluſions meet with a thouſand accidents, that confirme them, I
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              will, with the favour of this Philoſopher, adde ſomething more;
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              and you
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              Simplicius
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              perſonating him, anſwer me to what I ſhall
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              ask you: And firſt tell me, what effect hath that ſtone upon you,
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              which falling from the top of the Tower, is the cauſe that you
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              ceive that motion; for if its fall doth operate upon you neither
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              more nor leſſe, than its ſtanding ſtill on the Towers top, you
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              doubtleſſe could not diſcern its deſcent, or diſtinguiſh its moving
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              from its lying ſtill.</s>
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              Common motion
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              is, as if it never
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              were.
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              The argument
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              taken from things
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              falling
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              larly, another way
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              confuted.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I comprehend its moving, in relation to the Tower,
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              for that I ſee it one while juſt againſt ſuch a mark in the ſaid
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              Tower, and another while againſt another lower, and ſo
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              ſively, till that at laſt I perceive it arrived at the ground.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Then if that ſtone were let fall from the tallons of an
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              Eagle flying, and ſhould deſcend thorow the ſimple inviſible Air, </s>
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