Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It is not enough,
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              Sagredus,
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              that the ſubjects be noble
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              and great, but the buſineſſe conſiſts in handling it nobly. </s>
              <s>And
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              who knoweth not, that in the diſſection of the members of
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              a beaſt, there may be diſcovered infinite wonders of provident
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              and prudent Nature; and yet for one, that the Anatomiſt
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              ſects, the butcher cuts up a thouſand. </s>
              <s>Thus I, who am now
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              ſeeking how to ſatisfie your demand, cannot tell with which of the
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              two ſhapes I had beſt to appear on the Stage; but yet, taking
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              heart from the example of
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              Simplicius,
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              his Authour, I will,
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              out more delays, give you an account (if I have not forgot) how
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              I proceeded. </s>
              <s>But before I go any further, I muſt not omit to tell
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              you, that I much fear that
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              Simplicius
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              hath not faithfully related
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              the manner how this his Authour found, that the Cannon
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              let in coming from the concave of the Moon to the centre of the
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              Earth, would ſpend more than fix dayes: for if he had
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              ſed that its velocity in deſcending was equal to that of the
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              concave (as
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              Simplicius
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              ſaith he doth ſuppoſe) he would have
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              ſhewn himſelf ignorant of the firſt, and more ſimple principles
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              of
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              Geometry
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              ; yea, I admire that
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              Simplicius,
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              in admitting the
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              ſuppoſition which he ſpeaketh of, doth not ſee the monſtrous
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              ſurdity that is couched in it.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Its poſſible that I may have erred in relating it; but
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              that I ſee any fallacy in it, I am ſure is not true.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Perhaps I did not rightly apprehend that which you
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              ſaid, Do you not ſay, that this Authour maketh the velocity
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              of the bullet in deſcending equall to that which it had in
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              ning round, being in the concave of the Moon, and that
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              ming down with the ſame velocity, it would reach to the centre
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              in ſix dayes?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. So, as I think, he writeth.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And do not you perceive a ſhamefull errour therein?
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              <s>But queſtionleſſe you diſſemble it: For it cannot be, but that
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              you ſhould know that the ſemidiameter of the Circle is leſſe than
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              the ſixth part of the circumference; and that conſequently, the
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              time in which the moveable ſhall paſſe the ſemidiameter, ſhall be
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              leſſe than the ſixth part of the time; in which, being moved
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              with the ſame velocity, it would paſſe the circumference; and
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              that therefore the bullet deſcending with the velocity,
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              with it moved in the concave, will arrive in leſſe than four hours
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              at the centre, ſuppoſing that in the concave one revolution
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              ſhould be conſummate in twenty four hours, as he muſt of
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              ceſſity have ſuppoſed it, for to keep it all the way in the ſame
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              vertical line.</s>
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              A ſhamefull
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              errour in the
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              gument taken from
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              the bullets falling
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              out of the Moons
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              concave.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Now I thorowly perceive the miſtake: but yet I
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              would not lay it upon him undeſervedly, for it's poſſible that I </s>
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