Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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times farther from us at one time, than at another; and alſo
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eth to be alwayes of an equal bigneſs, although it ought to ſhew
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forty times bigger when neareſt to us, than when fartheſt off.</
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Jupiter, Saturn
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I believe that
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the differences of their apparent magnitudes, ſhould ſeem
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ally to anſwer to their different diſtances.</
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ſervations yearly for this twenty two years laſt paſt: In
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Mercury
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there can be no obſervation of moment made, by reaſon it
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fers not it ſelf to be ſeen, ſave onely in its greateſt digrſſieons
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from the Sun, in which its diſtances from the earth are inſenſibly
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unequal, and thoſe differences conſequently not to be obſerved;
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as alſo its mutations of figures which muſt abſolutely happen in
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it, as in
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Venus.
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And if we do ſee it, it muſt of neceſſity appear
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in form of a Semicircle, as
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Venus
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likewiſe doth in her greateſt
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digreſſions; but its
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diſcus
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is ſo very ſmall, and its ſplendor ſo
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very great, by reaſon of its vicinity to the Sun, that the virtue
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of the Teleſcope doth not ſuffice to clip its treſſes or adventitious
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rayes, ſo as to make them appear ſhaved round about. </
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mains, that we remove that which ſeemed a great inconvenience
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in the motion of the Earth, namely that all the Planets moving
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about the Sun, it alone, not ſolitary as the reſt, but in company
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with the Moon, and the whole Elementary Sphear, ſhould move
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round about the Sun in a year; and that the ſaid Moon withal
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ſhould move every moneth about the earth. </
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once again to exclaim and extol the admirable perſpicacity of
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pernicus,
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and withal to condole his misfortune, in that he is not
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now alive in our dayes, when for removing of the ſeeming
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ſurdity of the Earth and Moons motion in conſort we ſee
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ter,
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as if it were another Earth, not in conſort with the Moon,
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but accompanied by four Moons to rovolve about the Sun in 12.
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years together, with what ever things the Orbs of the four
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cæan Stars can contain within them.</
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Mercury
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teth not of clear
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The difficulties
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removed that ariſe
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from the Earths
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moving about the
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Sun, not ſolitarily,
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but in conſort with
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the Moon.
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Jupiter
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ſhould behold them; for they are of themſelves dark, and
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receive their light from the Sun, which is manifeſt from their
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ing eclipſed, when they enter into the cone of
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Jupiters
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ſhadow:
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and becauſe onely thoſe their Hemiſpheres, that look towards the
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Sun are illuminated, to us that are without their Orbs, and
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er to the Sun, they ſeem alwayes
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lucid,
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but to one that ſhould be
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in
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Jupiter,
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they would ſhew all illuminated, at ſuch time as they
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were in the upper parts of their circles; but in the parts
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our, that is between
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Jupiter
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and the Sun, they would from
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be obſerved to be horned; and in a word they would, to </
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