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

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              <s>
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              The diverſity of
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              motions helpeth us
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              in knowing the
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              verſity of natures.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I have twice or thrice obſerved in the diſcourſes of this
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              Authour, that to prove that a thing is ſo, or ſo, he ſtill alledgeth,
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              that in that manner it is conformable with our underſtanding; or
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              that otherwiſe we ſhould never be able to conceive of it; or that
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              the
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              Criterium
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              of Philoſophy would be overthrown. </s>
              <s>As if that
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              ture had firſt made mens brains, and then diſpoſed all things in
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              conformity to the capacity of their intellects. </s>
              <s>But I incline rather
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              to think that Nature firſt made the things themſelves, as ſhe beſt
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              liked, and afterwards framed the reaſon of men capable of
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              ceiving (though not without great pains) ſome part of her
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              crets.</s>
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              Nature firſt
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              made things as ſhe
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              pleaſed, and
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              wards capacitated
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              mens
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              ings for conceiving
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              of them.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I am of the ſame opinion. </s>
              <s>But tell me,
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              Simplicius,
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              which are theſe different natures, to which, contrary to
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              rience and reaſon,
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              Copernicus
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              aſſignes the ſame motions and
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              rations.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>They are theſe. </s>
              <s>The Water, the Air, (which
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              leſſe are Natures different from the Earth) and all things that
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              are in thoſe elements compriſed, ſhall each of them have thoſe
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              three motions, which
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              Copernicus
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              pretends to be in the Terreſtriall
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              Globe; and my Authour proceedeth to demonſtrate
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              cally, that, according to the
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              Copernican
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              Doctrine, a cloud that is
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              ſuſpended in the Air, and that hangeth a long time over our
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              heads without changing place, muſt of neceſſity have all thoſe three
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              motions that belong to the Terreſtrial Globe. </s>
              <s>The
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              tion is this, which you may read your ſelf, for I cannot repeat it
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              without book.</s>
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              Copernicus
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              roneouſly aſſigneth
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              the ſame operations
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              to different natures
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I ſhall not ſtand reading of it, nay I think it an
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              tinency in him to have inſerted it, for I am certain, that no
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              Copernican
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              will deny the ſame. </s>
              <s>Therefore admitting him what he
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              would demonſtrate, let us ſpeak to the objection, which in my
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              judgment hath no great ſtrength to conclude any thing contrary
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              to the
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              Copernican Hypotheſis,
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              ſeeing that it derogates nothing from
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              thoſe motions, and thoſe operations, whereby we come to the
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              knowledge of the natures, &c. </s>
              <s>Anſwer me, I pray you,
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              us:
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              Thoſe accidents wherein ſome things exactly concur, can
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              they ſerve to inform us of the different natures of thoſe
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              From commune
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              accidents one
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              not know different
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              natures.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>No Sir: nay rather the contrary, for from the idendity
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              of operations and of accidents nothing can be inferred, but an
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              idendity of natures.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>So that the different natures of the Water, Earth, Air,
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              and other things conteined in theſe Elements, is not by you
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              ed from thoſe operations, wherein all theſe Elements and their
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              fixes agree, but from other operations; is it ſo?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>The very ſame.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>So that he who ſhould leave in the Elements all thoſe </s>
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