Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              tick, but is inclined upon the ſame, as its crooked courſe, but
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              ven now obſerved, makes me believe, we ſhall be able to make
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              ſuch conjectures of the ſtates of the Sun and Earth, as neither ſo
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              ſolid or ſo rational have been hitherto deduced from any other
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              cident whatſoever. </s>
              <s>I being awakened at ſo great a promiſe,
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              portun'd him to make a free diſcovery of his conceit unto me.
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              <s>And he continued his diſcourſe to this purpoſe. </s>
              <s>If the Earths
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              motion were along the Ecliptique about the Sun; and the Sun
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              were conſtituted in the centre of the ſaid Ecliptick, and therein
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              revolved in its ſelf, not about the Axis of the ſaid Ecliptique
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              (which would be the Axis of the Earths annual motion) but
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              on one inclined, it muſt needs follow, that ſtrange changes will
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              repreſent themſelves to us in the apparent motions of the Solar
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              ſpots, although the ſaid Axis of the Sun ſhould be ſuppoſed to
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              perſiſt perpetually and immutably in the ſame inclination, and in
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              one and the ſame direction towards the ſelf-ſame point of the
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              Univerſe. </s>
              <s>Therefore the Terreſtrial Globe in the annual motion
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              moving round it, it will firſt follow, that to us, carried about by
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              the ſame, the courſes of the ſpots ſhall ſometimes ſeem to be
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              made in right lines, but this only twice a year, and at all other
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              times ſhall appear to be made by arches inſenſibly incurvated.
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              <s>Secondly, the curvity of thoſe arches for one half of the year,
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              will ſhew inclined the contrary way to what they will appear in
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              the other half; that is, for ſix moneths the convexity of the
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              ches ſhall be towards the upper part of the Solar
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              Diſcus,
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              and for
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              the other ſix moneths towards the inferiour. </s>
              <s>Thirdly, the ſpots
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              ginning to appear, and (if I may ſo ſpeak) to riſe to our eye from
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              the left ſide of the Solar
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              Diſcus,
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              and going to hide themſelves
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              and to ſet in the right ſide, the Oriental termes, that is, of their
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              firſt appearings for ſix moneths, ſhall be lower than the oppoſite
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              termes of their occultations; and for other ſix moneths it ſhall
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              happen contrarily, to wit, that the ſaid ſpots riſing from more
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              levated points, and from them deſcending, they ſhall, in their
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              courſes, go and hide themſelves in lower points; and onely for
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              two dayes in all the year ſhall thoſe termes of riſings and
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              tings be equilibrated: after which freely beginning by ſmall
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              grees the inclination of the courſes of the ſpots, and day by day
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              growing bigger, in three moneths, it ſhall arrive at its greateſt
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              obliquity, and from thence beginning to diminiſh, in ſuch another
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              time it ſhall reduce it ſelf to the other
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              Æquilibrium.
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              It ſhall
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              pen, for a fourth wonder, that the courſe of the greateſt
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              quity ſhall be the ſame with the courſe made by the right line,
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              and in the day of the Libration the arch of the courſe ſhall ſeem
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              more than ever incurvated. </s>
              <s>Again, in the other times,
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              ing as the pendency ſhall ſucceſſively diminiſh, and make its </s>
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