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

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              pearing in
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              Caſſiopeia,
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              tell me,
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              Simplicius,
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              whether you believe that
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              it might be in the ſame time placed in divers places, that is,
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              mongſt the Elements, aud alſo amongſt the planetary Orbs, and
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              alſo above theſe amongſt the fixed Stars, and yet again infinitely
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              more high.</s>
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              <s>
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              The method
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              ſerved by
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              Clar.
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              in
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              confuting the
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              ſtronomers, and by
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              Salviatus
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              in
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              ting him.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>There is no doubt, but that it ought to be confeſſed
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              that it is but in one only place, and at one ſole and determinate
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              diſtance from the Earth.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Therefore if the obſervations made by the
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              mers were exact, and the calculations made by this Author were
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              not erroneous, it were eaſie from all thoſe and all theſe to
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              collect the ſame diſtances alwayes to an hair, is not this true?</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>My reaſon hitherto tells me that ſo it muſt needs be;
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              nor do I believe that the Author would contradict it</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But when of many and many computations that have
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              been made, there ſhould not be ſo much as two onely that prove
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              true, what would you think of them?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I would think that they were all falſe, either through
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              the fault of the computiſt, or through the defect of the
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              vators, and at the moſt that could be ſaid, I would ſay, that but
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              onely one of them and no more was true; but as yet I know not
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              which to chooſe.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Would you then from falſe fundamentals deduce and
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              eſtabliſh a doubtful concluſion for ttue? </s>
              <s>Certainly no. </s>
              <s>Now the
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              calculations of this Author are ſuch, that no one of them agrees
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              with another, you may ſee then what credit is to be given to
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              them.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. Indeed, if it be ſo, this is a notable failing.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But by the way I have a mind to help
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              Simplicius,
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              and
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              the Author by telling
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              Salviatus,
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              that his arguments would hold
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              good if the Author had undertook to go about to find out
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              ly the diſtance of the Star from the Earth, which I do not think
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              to be his intention; but onely to demonſtrate that from thoſe
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              obſervations he collected that the Star was ſublunary. </s>
              <s>So
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              that if from thoſe obſervations, and from all the computations
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              made thereon, the height of the Star be alwayes collected to be
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              leſſe than that of the Moon, it ſerves the Authors turn to
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              vince all thoſe Aſtronomers of moſt impardonable ignorance,
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              that through the defect either of Geometry or Arithmetick, have
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              not known how to draw true concluſions from their own
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              tions themſelves.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It will be convenient therefore that I turn my ſelf to
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              you,
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              Sagredus,
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              who ſo cunningly aphold the Doctrine of this
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              Author. </s>
              <s>And to ſee whether I can make
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              Simplicius,
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              though not
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              very expert in calcnlations, and demonſtrations to apprehend the </s>
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