Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              ty, I believe that you wonder at the paucity of thoſe who are
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              lowers of that opinion would be much diminiſhed. </s>
              <s>But ſmall
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              gard in my judgement, ought to be had of ſuch thick ſculs, as think
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              it a moſt convincing proof to confirm, and ſteadfaſtly ſettle them
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              in the belief of the earths immobility, to ſee that if this day they
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              cannot Dine at
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              Conſtantinople,
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              nor Sup in
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              Jappan,
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              that then the
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              Earth as being a moſt grave body cannot clamber above the Sun,
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              and then ſlide headlong down again; Of ſuch as theſe I ſay,
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              whoſe number is infinite, we need not make any reckoning, nor
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              need we to record their foolieries, or to ſtrive to gain to our ſide
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              as our partakers in ſubtil and ſublime opinions, men in whoſe
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              finition the kind onely is concerned, and the difference is wanting.
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              <s>Moreover, what ground do you think you could be able to gain,
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              with all the demonſtrations of the World upon brains ſo ſtupid,
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              as are not able of themſelves to know their down right follies? </s>
              <s>But
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              my admiration,
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              Sagredus,
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              is very different from yours, you
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              der that ſo few are followers of the
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              Pythagorean
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              Opinion; and I
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              am amazed how there could be any yet left till now that do
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              brace and follow it: Nor can I ſufficiently admire the eminencie of
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              thoſe mens wits that have received and held it to be true, and with
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              the ſprightlineſſe of their judgements offered ſuch violence to their
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              own ſences, as that they have been able to prefer that which their
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              reaſon dictated to them, to that which ſenſible experiments
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              preſented moſt manifeſtly on the contrary. </s>
              <s>That the reaſons againſt
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              the Diurnal virtiginous revolution of the Earth by you already
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              amined, do carry great probability with them, we have already
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              ſeen; as alſo that the
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              Ptolomaicks,
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              and
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              Ariſtotelicks,
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              with all their
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              Sectators did receive them for true, is indeed a very great argument
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              of their efficacie; but thoſe experiments which apertly contradict
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              the annual motion, are of yet ſo much more manifeſtly repugnant,
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              that (I ſay it again) I cannot find any bounds for my admiration,
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              how that reaſon was able in
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              Ariſtarchus
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              and
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              Copernicus,
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              to
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              mìt ſuch a rape upon their Sences, as in deſpight thereof, to make
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              her ſelf miſtreſs of their credulity.</s>
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              Diſcourſes more
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              than childiſh, ſerve
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              to keep fools in the
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              opinion of the
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              Earths ſtability.
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              A declaration
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              of the
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              lity of
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              Copernicus
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              his opinion.
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              Reaſons and
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              courſe in
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              cus
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              and
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              cus
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              prevailed over
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              manifeſt ſence.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Are we then to have ſtill more of theſe ſtrong
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              ons againſt this annual motion?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>We are, and they be ſo evident and ſenſible, that if a
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              ſence more ſublime and excellent than thoſe common and vulgar,
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              did not take part with reaſon, I much fear, that I alſo ſhould have
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              been much more averſe to the
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              Copernican
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              Syſteem than I have been
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              ſince the time that a clearer lamp than ordinary hath enlightned
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              me.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Now therefore
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              Salviatus,
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              let us come to joyn battail
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              for every word that is ſpent on any thing elſe, I take to be caſt
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              way.</s>
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