Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              grave bodies falling from the top of a Tower, and from
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              ctions made perpendicularly upwards, or according to any
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              tion ſidewayes towards the Eaſt, Weſt, North, South, &c. </s>
              <s>have
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              ſomewhat abated in me the antiquated incredulity I had conceived
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              againſt that opinion: but other greater doubts run in my mind
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              at this very inſtant, which I know not in the leaſt how to free my
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              ſelf of, and haply you your ſelf will not be able to reſolve them;
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              nay, its poſſible you may not have heard them, for they are very
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              modern. </s>
              <s>And theſe are the objections of two Authours, that
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              ex
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              profeſſo
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              write againſt
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              Copernicus.
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              Some of which are read in a
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              little Tract of natural concluſions; The reſt are by a great both
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              Philoſopher and Mathematician, inſerted in a Treatiſe which he
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              hath written in favour of
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              Aristotle,
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              and his opinion touching the
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              inalterability of the Heavens, where he proveth, that not onely
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              the Comets, but alſo the new ſtars, namely, that
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              anno
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              1572. in
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              Caſſiopeia,
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              and that
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              anno
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              1604. in
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              Sagittarius
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              were not above the
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              Spheres of the Planets, but abſolutely beneath the concave of
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              the Moon in the Elementary Sphere, and this he demonſtrateth
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              gainſt
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              Tycho, Kepler,
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              and many other Aftronomical Obſervators,
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              and beateth them at their own weapon; to wit, the Doctrine of
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              Parallaxes. </s>
              <s>If you like thereof, I will give you the reaſons of
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              both theſe Authours, for I have read them more than once,
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              with attention; and you may examine their ſtrength, and give
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              your opinion thereon.</s>
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              Other objections
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              of two modern
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              thors against
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              pernicus.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>In regard that our principal end is to bring upon the
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              ſtage, and to conſider what ever hath been ſaid for, or againſt the
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              two Syſtemes,
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              Ptolomaick,
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              and
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              Copernican,
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              it is not good to omit
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              any thing that hath been written on this ſubject.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I will begin therefore with the objections which I finde
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              in the Treatiſe of Concluſions, and afterwards proceed to the
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              reſt. </s>
              <s>In the firſt place then, he beſtoweth much paines in
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              lating exactly how many miles an hour a point of the terreſtrial
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              Globe ſituate under the Equinoctial, goeth, and how many miles
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              are paſt by other points ſituate in other parallels: and not being
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              content with finding out ſuch motions in horary times, he findeth
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              them alſo in a minute of an hour; and not contenting himſelf
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              with a minute, he findes them alſo in a ſecond minute; yea more,
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              he goeth on to ſhew plainly, how many miles a Cannon bullet
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              would go in the ſame time, being placed in the concave of the
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              nar Orb, ſuppoſing it alſo as big as
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              Copernicus
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              himſelf repreſenteth
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              it, to take away all ſubterfuges from his adverſary. </s>
              <s>And having
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              made this moſt ingenious and exquiſite ſupputation, he ſheweth,
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              that a grave body falling from thence above would conſume more
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              than ſix dayes in attaining to the centre of the Earth, to which all
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              grave bodies naturally move. </s>
              <s>Now if by the abſolute Divine </s>
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