Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              untie it, I ſhall hold you for more than an
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              Alexander.
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              *
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              Bandola
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              that
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              end of a skeen
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              where with
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              wives faſten their
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              hankes of yarn,
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              thread or ſilk.</s>
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              The grand
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              ficulty in
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              nicus
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              his Doctrine,
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              is that which
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              cerns the
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              mena
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              of the Sun
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              and fixed ſtars.
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              *
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              Pettine,
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              it is
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              the ſtay in a
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              vets Loom, that
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              permitteth no knot
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              or ſnarle to paſſe
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              it, called by them
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              the Combe of the
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              Loom.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Theſe are ſcruples worthy of the ingenuity of
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              dus,
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              and this doubt is ſo intricate, that even
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              Copernicus
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              himſelf
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              almoſt deſpaired of being able to explain the ſame, ſo as to
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              render it intelligible, which we ſee as well by his own confeſſion
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              of its obſcurity, as alſo by his, at two ſeveral times, taking two
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              different wayes to make it out. </s>
              <s>And, I ingenuouſly confeſſe that
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              I underſtood not his explanation, till ſuch time as another
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              thod more plain and manifeſt, had rendred it intelligible; and
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              yet neither was that done without a long and laborious
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              tion of my thoughts to the ſame.</s>
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              <s>SIMP.
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              Ariſtotle
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              ſaw the ſame ſcruple, and makes uſe
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              of to oppoſe certain of the Ancients, who held that the Earth
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              was a Planet; againſt whom he argueth, that if it were ſo, it
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              would follow that it alſo, as the reſt of the Planets, ſhould have a
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              plurality of motions, from whence would follow theſe
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              ons in the riſings and ſettings of the fixed ſtars, and likewiſe in
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              the Meridian Altitudes. </s>
              <s>And in regard that he propoundeth the
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              difficulty, and doth not anſwer it, it muſt needs be, if not
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              poſſible, at leaſt very difficult to be reſolved.</s>
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              Ariſtotles
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              ment againſt the
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              Ancients, who held
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              that the Earth
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              was a Planet.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The ſtreſſe and ſtrength of the knot rendereth the
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              ſolution thereof more commendable and admirable; but I do
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              not promiſe you the ſame at this time, and pray you to diſpenſe
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              with me therein till too morrow, and for the preſent we will go
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              conſidering and explaining thoſe mutations and differences that
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              by means of the annual motion ought to be diſcerned in the
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              ed ſtars, like as even now we ſaid, for the explication whereof
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              certain preparatory points offer themſelves, which may
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              tate the anſwer to the grand objection. </s>
              <s>Now reaſſuming the
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              two motions aſcribed to the Earth (two I ſay, for the third is
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              no motion, as in its place I will declare) that is the annual and
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              diurnal, the firſt is to be underſtood to be made by the centre of
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              the Earth in or about the circumference of the grand Orb, that
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              is of a very great circle deſcribed in the plain of the fixed and
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              immutable Ecliptick; the other, namely the diurnal, is made
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              by the Globe of the Earth in it ſelf about its own centre, and
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              own Axis, not erect, but inclined to the Plane of the Ecliptick,
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              with the inclination of 23. degrees and an half, or thereabouts,
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              the which inclination is maintained all the year about, and that
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              which ought eſpecially to be obſerved, is alwayes ſituate
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              wards the ſame point of Heaven: in ſo much that the Axis of the
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              diurnal motion doth alwayes remain parallel to it ſelf; ſo that
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              if we imagine that ſame Axis to be continued out until it reach
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              the fixed ſtars, whilſt the centre of the Earth is encircling the
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              whole Ecliptick in a year, the ſaid Axis deſcribeth the </s>
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