Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              abundance, and therefore more grave, drive back the Waters
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              of leſſe depth, which being afterwards raiſed, deſire to
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              ſcend, and from this continual colluctation or conteſt proceeds
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              the ebbing and flowing. </s>
              <s>Again thoſe that referre the ſame to the
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              Moon are many, ſaying that ſhe hath particular Dominion over
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              the Water; and at laſt a certain Prelate hath publiſhed a little
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              Treatiſe, wher in he ſaith that the Moon wandering too and
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              fro in the Heavens attracteth and draweth towards it a Maſſe of
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              Water, which goeth continually following it, ſo that it is full Sea
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              alwayes in that part which lyeth under the Moon; and becauſe,
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              that though ſhe be under the Horizon, yet nevertheleſſe the Tide
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              returneth, he ſaith that no more can be ſaid for the ſalving of that
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              particular, ſave onely, that the Moon doth not onely naturally
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              retain this faculty in her ſelf; but in this caſe hath power to
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              fer it upon that degree of the Zodiack that is oppoſite unto it.
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              <s>Others, as I believe you know, do ſay that the Moon is able
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              with her temperate heat to rarefie the Water, which being
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              refied, doth thereupon flow. </s>
              <s>Nor hath there been wanting ſome
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              that ----</s>
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              The cauſe of the
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              abbing and flowing
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              alledged by a
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              tain modern
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              loſopher.
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              The cauſe of
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              the ebbing and
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              flowing aſcribed to
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              the Moon by a
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              certain Prelate.
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              Hieronymus
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              rius
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              and other
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              ripateticks
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              refer it
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              to the temperate
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              heat of the Moon.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I pray you
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              Simplicius
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              let us hear no more of them,
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              for I do not think it is worth the while to waſt time in relating
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              them, or to ſpend our breath in confuting them; and for your
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              part, if you gave your aſſent to any of theſe or the like
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              ries, you did a great injury to your judgment, which
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              leſſe I acknowledg to be very piercing.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But I that am a little more flegmatick than you,
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              Sagre-
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              dus,
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              will ſpend a few words in favour of
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              Simplicius,
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              if haply
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              he thinks that any probability is to be found in thoſe things that
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              he hath related. </s>
              <s>I ſay therefore: The Waters,
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              Simplicius,
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              that
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              have their exteriour ſuperficies higher, repel thoſe that are
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              riour to them, and lower; but ſo do not thoſe Waters that are
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              of greateſt profundity; and the higher having once driven back
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              the lower, they in a ſhort time grow quiet and ^{*} level. </s>
              <s>This
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              your
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              Peripatetick
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              muſt needs be of an opinion, that all the Lakes
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              in the World that are in a calme, and that all the Seas where
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              the ebbing and flowing is inſenſible, are level in their bottoms;
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              but I was ſo ſimple, that I perſwaded my ſelf that had we no
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              ther plummet to ſound with, the Iſles that advance ſo high
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              bove Water, had been a ſufficient evidence of the unevenneſſe
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              of their bottomes. </s>
              <s>To that Prelate I could ſay that the Moon
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              runneth every day along the whole Mediterrane, and yet its
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              Waters do not riſe thereupon ſave onely in the very extream
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              bounds of it Eaſtward, and here to us at
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              Venice.
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              And for thoſe
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              that make the Moons temperate heat able to make the Water
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              ſwell, bid them put fire under a Kettle full of Water, and hold </s>
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