Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              the motions of the Solar ſpots, it ſeemeth really that ſuch an
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              Hypotheſis ought not to be rejected.</s>
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              If the Earth be
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              immoveable in the
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              centre of the
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              ack, there muſt be
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              aſcribed to the Sun
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              four ſeveral
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              ons, as is declared
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              at length.
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              <s>This,
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              Simplicius,
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              is all that came into the minds of our friend,
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              and my ſelf, that could be alledged in explanation of this
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              menon
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              by the
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              Copernicans,
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              and by the
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              Ptolomæans,
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              in defence
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              of their opinions. </s>
              <s>Do you inferre from thence what your
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              ment perſwades you.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I acknowledge my ſelf unable to interpoſe in ſo
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              portant a deciſion: And, as to my particular thoughts, I will
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              ſtand neutral; and yet nevertheleſſe I hope that a time will
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              come, when our minds being illumin'd by more lofty
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              tions than theſe our humane reaſonings, we ſhall be awakened
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              and freed from that miſt which now is ſo great an hinderance to
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              our ſight.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Excellent and pious is the counſel taken by
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              cius,
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              and worthy to be entertained and followed by all, as that
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              which being derived from the higheſt wiſdome and ſupreameſt
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              authority, may onely, with ſecurity be received. </s>
              <s>But yet ſo far
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              as humane reaſon is permitted to penetrate, confining my ſelf
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              within the bounds of conjectures, and probable reaſons, I will
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              ſay a little more reſolutely than
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              Simplicius
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              doth, that amongſt
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              all the ingenuous ſubtilties I ever heard, I have never met with
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              any thing of greater admiration to my intellect, nor that hath
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              more abſolutely captivated my judgment, (alwayes excepting
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              pure Geometrical and Arithmetical Demonſtrations) than theſe
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              two conjectures taken, the one from the ſtations and
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              tions of the five Planets, and the other from theſe irregularities of
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              the motions of the Solar ſpots: and becauſe they ſeem to me ſo
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              eaſily and clearly to aſſign the true reaſon of ſo extravagant
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              pearances, ſhewing as if they were but one ſole ſimple motion,
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              mixed with ſo many others, ſimple likewiſe, but different from
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              each other, without introducing any difficulty, rather with
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              ating thoſe that accompany the other Hypotheſis; I am
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              ing that I may rationally conclude, that thoſe who
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              ouſly withſtand this Doctrine, either never heard, or never
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              derſtood, theſe ſo convincing arguments.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I will not aſcribe unto them the title either of
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              vincing, or non-convincing; in regard my intention is not, as I
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              have ſeveral times told you, to reſolve any thing upon ſo high a
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              queſtion, but onely to propoſe thoſe natural and Aſtronomicall
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              reaſons, which, for the one and other Syſteme, may be produced
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              by me, leaving the determination to others; which
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              on cannot at laſt, but be very manifeſt: for one of the two
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              tions being of neceſſity to be true, and the other of neceſſity to
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              be falſe, it is a thing impoſſible that (alwayes confining our ſelves </s>
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