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

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              ball got to the ground, when the little one is ſtill within leſs than
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              a yard of the top of the Tower.</s>
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              <s>
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              The error of
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              ſtotle
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              in affirming,
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              falling grave
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              dies to move
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              ding to the
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              tion of their
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              ties.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>That this propoſition is moſt falſe, I make no doubt in
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              the world; but yet that yours is abſolutely true, I cannot well
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              aſſure my ſelf: nevertheleſs, I believe it, ſeeing that you ſo
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              ſolutely affirm it; which I am ſure you would not do, if you had
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              not certain experience, or ſome clear demonſtration thereof.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I have both: and when we ſhall handle the buſineſs
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              of motions apart, I will communicate them: in the interim, that
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              we may have no more occaſions of interrupting our diſcourſe, we
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              will ſuppoſe, that we are to make our computation upon a ball of
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              Iron of an hundred
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              (a)
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              pounds, the which by reiterated
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              ments deſcendeth from the altitude of an hundred
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              (b)
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              yards, in
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              five ſecond-minutes of an hour. </s>
              <s>And becauſe, as we have ſaid,
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              the ſpaces that are meaſured by the cadent moveable, increaſe in
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              double proportion; that is, according to the ſquares of the times,
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              being that the time of one firſt-minute is duodecuple to the time
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              of five ſeconds, if we multiply the hundred yards by the ſquare of
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              12, that is by 144, we ſhall have 14400, which ſhall be the
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              ber of yards that the ſame moveable ſhall paſs in one firſt-minute
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              of an hour: and following the ſame rule becauſe one hour is 60
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              minutes, multiplying 14400, the number of yards paſt in one
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              nute, by the ſquare of 60, that is, by 3600, there ſhall come forth
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              51840000, the number of yards to be paſſed in an hour, which
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              make 17280 miles. </s>
              <s>And deſiring to know the ſpace that the ſaid
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              ball would paſs in 4 hours, let us multiply 17280 by 16, (which
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              is the ſquare of 4) and the product will be 276480 miles: which
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              number is much greater than the diſtance from the Lunar concave
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              to the centre of the Earth, which is but 196000 miles, making the
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              diſtance of the concave 56 ſemidiameters of the Earth, as that
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              dern Author doth; and the ſemidiameter of the Earth 3500 miles,
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              of 3000 ^{*}
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              Braces
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              to a †mile, which are our
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              Italian
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              miles.</s>
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              <s>
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              (a) (b)
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              Note that
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              theſe Calculations
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              are made in
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              an
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              weights and
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              meaſures. </s>
              <s>And 100
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              pounds
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              poiſe
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              make 131
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              l.
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              </s>
              <s>Florentine.
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              And
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              100 Engliſh yards
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              makes 150 2/5 Braces
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              Florent.
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              ſo that the
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              brace or yard of
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              our
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              Author
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              is 3/4
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              of cur yard.</s>
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              * The
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              Italian
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              ſure which I
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              monly tranſl te
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              yards.</s>
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              <s>Therefore,
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              Simplicius,
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              that ſpace from the concave of the Moon
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              to the centre of the Earth, which your Accomptant ſaid could
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              not be paſſed under more than ſix days, you ſee that (computing
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              by experience, and not upon the fingers ends) that it ſhall be
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              ſed in much leſs than four hours; and making the computation
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              exact, it ſhall be paſſed by the moveable in 3 hours, 22
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              min. </s>
              <s>prim.
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              and 4 ſeconds.</s>
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              † The
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              Italian
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              mile
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              is 1000/1056 of our mile.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I beſeech you, dear Sir, do not defraud me of this
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              act calculation, for it muſt needs be very excellent.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>So indeed it is: therefore having (as I have ſaid) by
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              diligent tryal obſerved, that ſuch a moveable paſſeth in its deſcent,
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              the height of 100 yards in 5 ſeconds of an hour, we will ſay, if
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              100 yards are paſſed in 5 ſeconds; in how many ſeconds ſhall </s>
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