Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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Earth is to carry along with it a thouſand bodies, each much
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ger than the Terreſtrial Globe.</
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* Cinque ò ſei
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braccia Fiorentini.</
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Wearineß more
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to be feared in the
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ſtarry Sphere than
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in the terreſtriall
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Globe.
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>Here it remains for us to ſee the proofs, whereby the Authour
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concludes the new ſtars
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Anno
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1604. to be
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nary, and not cœleſtial, as the
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Astronomers
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of thoſe times were
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generally perſwaded; an enterprize very great certainly; but I
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have conſidered, that it will be better, in regard the Book is new
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and long, by reaſon of its many calculations, that between this
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vening and to morrow morning I make them as plain as I can, and
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ſo meeting you again to morrow to continue our wonted
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rences, give you a brief of what I ſhall obſerve therein; and if we
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have time left, we will ſay ſomething of the
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Annual motion
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bed to the Earth. </
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cius
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in particular, hath any thing to ſay more, touching what relates
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to the
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Diurnal motion,
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at large examined by me, we have a little
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time ſtill left to treat thereof.</
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ſes that this day have falne under our debate, have appeared to me
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fraught with very acute and ingenious notions, alledged on
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nicus
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his ſide, in confirmation of the motion of the Earth, but yet
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I find not my ſelf perſwaded to believe it; for in ſhort, the things
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that have been ſaid conclude no more but this, that the reaſons
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for the ſtability of the Earth are not neceſſary; but all the while
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no demonſtration hath been produced on the other ſide, that doth
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neceſſarily convince and prove its mobility.</
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Simplicius,
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to remove you from that
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your opinion; much leſs dare I preſume to determine definitively
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in this controverſie: it onely was, and ſtill ſhall be in the enſuing
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diſputations my intent, to make it appear to you, that thoſe who
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have thought that moſt ſwift motion of 24 hours doth belong to
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the Earth alone, and not to the Univerſe, the Earth onely
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ded, were not induced to believe, that ſo it might and ought to do
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out of any blind perſwaſion; but that they did very well ſee, try,
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and examine the reaſons on the contrary ſide, and alſo not
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ly anſwer them. </
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liking, and that of
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Sagredus,
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we may paſſe to the conſideration of
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that other motion; firſt, by
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Aristarchus Samius,
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and afterwards
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by
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Nicholaus Copernicus
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aſcribed to the ſaid Terreſtrial Globe,
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which is, as, I believe, you have heretofore heard, made under the
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Zodiack within the ſpace of a year about the Sun, immoveably
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placed in the centre of the ſaid Zodiack.</
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gladly hearken to the diſcuſſion thereof, perſwading my ſelf that I
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ſhall hear what ever can be ſaid of that matter. </
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