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

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              follies of ſuch a ^{*} Fabler againſt
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              Aſtronomers
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              to come into the </s>
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              light, and to be openly maintained without contradiction; but
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              this alſo might be diſpenſed with, in reſpect of the other greater
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              occaſions of laughter, wherewith we may confront them
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              ing on the diſſimulation of the intelligent, touching the follies of
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              theſe opponents of the Doctrines that they well enough
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              ſtand.</s>
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              * Lorenzini.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I deſire not a greater proof of thoſe mens petulancy,
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              and the infelicity of a
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              Copernican,
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              ſubject to be oppoſed by ſuch
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              as underſtand not ſo much as the very firſt poſitions, upon which
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              he undertakes the quarrel.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You will be no leſſe aſtoniſhed at their method in
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              futing the
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              Astronomers,
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              who affirm the new Stars to be ſuperiour
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              to the Orbs of the Planets; and peradventure in the ^{†} Firmament
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              it ſelf.</s>
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              † He taketh the
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              Firmament for the
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              Starry Sphere, and
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              as we vulgarly
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              ceive the word.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But how could you in ſo ſhort a time examine all this
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              Book, which is ſo great a Volume, and muſt needs contain very
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              many demonſtrations.?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I have confined my ſelf to theſe his firſt confutations, in
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              which with twelve demonſtrations founded upon the obſervations
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              of twelve
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              Aſtronomers,
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              (who all held, that the Star,
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              Anno
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              1572.
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              which appeared in
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              Caſſiopeia,
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              was in the Firmament) he proveth it
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              on the contrary, to be beneath the Moon, conferring, two by two,
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              the meridian altitudes, proceeding in the method that you ſhall
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              underſtand by and by. </s>
              <s>And becauſe, I think, that in the
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              nation of this his firſt progreſſion, I have diſcovered in this
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              thour a great unlikelihood of his ability to conclude any thing
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              gainſt the
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              Aſtronomers,
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              in favour of the
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              Peripatetick Philoſophers,
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              and that their opinion is more and more concludently confirmed,
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              I could not apply my ſelf with the like patience in examining his
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              other methods, but have given a very ſlight glance upon them,
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              and am certain, that the defect that is in theſe firſt impugnations,
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              is likewiſe in the reſt. </s>
              <s>And as you ſhall ſee, by experience, very
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              few words will ſuffice to confute this whole Book, though
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              led with ſo great a number of laborious calculations, as here you
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              ſee. </s>
              <s>Therefore obſerve my proceedings. </s>
              <s>This Authour
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              taketh, as I ſay, to wound his adverſaries with their own weapons,
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              i.e.
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              a great number of obſervations made by themſelves, to wit, by
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              twelve or thirteen Authours in number, and upon part of them he
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              makes his ſupputations, and concludeth thoſe ſtars to have been
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              below the Moon. </s>
              <s>Now becauſe the proceeding by
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              ries very much pleaſeth me, in regard the Authour himſelf is not
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              here, let
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              Simplicius
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              anſwer me to the queſtions that I ſhall ask
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              him, as he thinks he himſelf would, if he were preſent. </s>
              <s>And
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              ſuppoſing that we ſpeak of the foreſaid Star, of
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              Anno
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              1572. </s>
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