Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              and fixed Stars may ſtand immoveable, in caſe the Earth ſhould
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              move: the matter of fact in diſpute is, to which of them we may
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              with moſt convenience aſcribe motion, and to which reſt. </s>
              <s>Natural
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              reaſon dictates, that motion ought to be aſſigned to the bodies,
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              which in kind and eſſence moſt agree with thoſe bodies which do
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              undoubtedly move, and reſt to thoſe which moſt diſſent from them;
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              and in regard that an eternal reſt and perpetual motion are moſt
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              different, it is manifeſt, that the nature of the body always
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              able ought to be moſt different from the body alwayes ſtable.
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              <s>Therefore, in regard that we are dubious of motion and reſt,
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              let us enquire, whether by the help of ſome other eminent
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              on, we may diſcover, which moſt agreeth with the bodies
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              ly moveable, either the Earth, or the Sun and fixed Stars. </s>
              <s>But ſee
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              how Nature, in favour of our neceſſity and deſire, preſents us
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              with two eminent qualities, and no leſs different than motion and
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              reſt, and they are light and darkneſs, to wit, the being by nature
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              moſt bright, and the being obſcure, and wholly deprived of light:
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              the bodies therefore adorned with an internal and eternal
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              dour, are moſt different in eſſence from thoſe deprived of light:
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              The Earth is deprived of light, the Sun is moſt ſplendid in it ſelf,
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              and ſo are the fixed Stars. </s>
              <s>The ſix Planets do abſolutely
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              want light, as the Earth; therefore their eſſence agreeth with
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              the Earth, and differeth from the Sun and fixed Stars. </s>
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              fore is the Earth moveable, immoveable the Sunne and Starry
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              Sphere.</s>
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              From the Earths
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              obſcurity, and the
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              ſplendour of the
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              Sun, and fixed
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              Stars, is argued,
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              that it is
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              ble, and they
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              moveable.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>But the Authour will not grant, that the ſix Planets are
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              tenebroſe, and by that negative will he abide. </s>
              <s>Or he will argue
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              the great conformity of nature between the ſix Planets, and the
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              Sun, and Fixed Stars; and the diſparity between them and the
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              Earth from other conditions than from tenebroſity and light; yea,
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              now I remember in the fifth objection, which followeth, he layeth
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              down the vaſt difference between the Earth and the Cœleſtial
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              Bodies, in which he writeth,
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              That the
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              Copernican Hypotheſis
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              would make great confuſion and perturbation in the Syſteme of the
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              Vniverſe, and amongst its parts:
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              As for inſtance, amongſt
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              bodies that are immutable and incorruptible, according to
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              tle, Tycho,
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              and others; amongſt bodies, I ſay, of ſuch nobility, by
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              the confeſſion of every one, and
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              Copernicus
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              himſelf, who affirmeth
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              them to be ordinate, and diſpoſed in a perfect conſtitution, and
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              removeth from them all inconſtancy of vertue amongſt, theſe
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              dies, I ſay once more, ſo pure, that is to ſay, amongſt
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              Venus, Mars,
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              &c.
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              to place the very ſink of all corruptible matters, to wit, the
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              Earth, Water, Air, and all mixt bodies.</s>
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              A fifih
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              ment againſt
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              pernicus.</s>
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              Another
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              rence between the
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              Earth and the
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              leſtial bodies,
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              ken from purity &
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              impurity.
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              <s>But how much properer a diſtribution, and more with nature,
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              yea with God himſelf, the Architect, is it, to ſequeſter the pure </s>
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