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

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              diſſenteth from the doctrine of
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              Ariſtotle
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              and
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              Ptolomy.
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              As again,
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              to this third motion, which the Author aſſignes to the Terreſtrial
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              Globe, as the judgment of
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              Copernicus,
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              I know not which he would
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              mean thereby: it is not that queſtionleſſe, which
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              Copernicus
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              cribes unto it conjunctly with the other two, annual and diurnal,
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              which hath nothing to do with declining towards the South and
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              North; but onely ſerveth to keep the axis of the diurnal
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              on continually parallel to it ſelf; ſo that it muſt be confeſt, that
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              either the Authour did not underſtand this, or that elſe he
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              bled it. </s>
              <s>But although this great miſtake ſufficeth to free us from
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              any obligation of a farther enquiry into his objections; yet
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              vertheleſſe I ſhall have them in eſteem; as indeed they deſerve to
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              be valued much before the many others of impertinent
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              niſts. </s>
              <s>Returning therefore to his objection, I ſay, that the two
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              motions, annual and diurnal, are not in the leaſt contrary, nay are
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              towards the ſame way, and therefore may depend on one and the
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              ſame principle. </s>
              <s>The third is of it ſelf, and voluntarily ſo
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              tial to the annual, that we need not trouble our ſelves (as I ſhall
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              ſhew in its place) to ſtudy for principles either internal or external,
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              from which, as from its cauſe, to make it produced.</s>
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              By another
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              error it is ſeen that
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              the Antagoniſt had
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              but little ſtudied
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              Copernicus.</s>
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              It is queſtioned,
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              whether the
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              nent underſtood
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              the third motion
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              aſſigned to the
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              Earth by
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              cus.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I ſhall alſo, as being induced thereto by natural reaſon,
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              ſay ſomething to this Antagoniſt. </s>
              <s>He will condemn
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              Copernicus,
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              unleſſe I be able to anſwer him to all objections, and to ſatisfie
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              him in all queſtions he ſhall ask; as if my ignorance were a
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              ſary argument of the falſhood of his Doctrine. </s>
              <s>But if this way of
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              condemning Writers be in his judgment legal, he ought not to
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              think it unreaſonable, if I ſhould not approve of
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              Arîſtotle
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              and
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              lomy,
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              when he cannot reſolve, better than my ſelf, thoſe doubts
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              which I propound to him, touching their Doctrine. </s>
              <s>He asketh me,
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              what are the principles by which the Terreſtrial Globe is moved
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              with the Annual motion through the Zodiack, and with the
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              nal through the Equinoctial about its own axis. </s>
              <s>I anſwer, that
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              they are like to thoſe by which
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              Saturn
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              is moved about the
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              ack in thirty years, and about its own centre in a much ſhorter
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              time along the Equinoctial, as the collateral apparition and
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              cultation of its Globes doth evince. </s>
              <s>They are principles like to
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              thoſe, whereby he ſcrupleth not to grant, that the Sun runneth
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              row the Ecliptick in a year, and revolveth about its own centre
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              parallel to the Equinoctial in leſſe than a moneth, as its ſpots doth
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              ſenſibly demonſtrate. </s>
              <s>They are things like to thoſe whereby the
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              Medicean Stars run through the Zodiack in twelve years, and
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              all the while revolve in ſmall circles, and ſhort periods of time
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              bout
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              Jupiter.
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              The ſame
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              ment anſwered by
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              examples of the
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              like motions in
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              ther cœleſtial
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              dies.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>This Author will deny all theſe things, as deluſions of
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              the fight, cauſed by the cryſtals of the
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              Teleſcope.
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              </s>
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