Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I will run to a Miracle ſtill, if you do not with ſome
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              other natural cauſes, beſides that of the motion of the Veſſels of
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              the Sea-water diſſwade me from it; for I know that thoſe Veſſels
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              move not, in regard that all the entire Terreſtrial Globe is
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              rally immoveable.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But do not you think, that the Terreſtrial Globe might
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              ſupernaturally, that is, by the abſolute power of God, be made
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              moveable? </s>
              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Who doubts it?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Then
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              Simplicius,
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              ſeeing that to make the flux and
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              reflux of the Sea, it is neceſſary to introduce a Miracle, let us
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              ſuppoſe the Earth to move miraculouſly, upon the motion of
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              which the Sea moveth naturally: and this effect ſhall be alſo the
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              more ſimple, and I may ſay natural, amongſt the miraculous
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              perations, in that the making a Globe to move round, of which
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              kind we ſee many others to move, is leſſe difficult than to make
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              an immenſe maſſe of water go forwards and backwards, in one
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              place more ſwiftly, and in another leſſe, and to riſe and fall in
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              ſome places more; in ſome leſſe, and in ſome not at all: and to
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              work all theſe different effects in one and the ſame Veſſel that
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              containeth it: beſides, that theſe are ſeveral Miracles, and that
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              is but one onely. </s>
              <s>And here it may be added, that the Miracle
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              of making the water to move is accompanied with another,
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              namely, the holding of the Earth ſtedfaſt againſt impetuosities
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              of the water, able to make it ſwage ſometimes one way, and
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              ſometimes another, if it were not miraculouſly kept to rights.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Good
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              Simplicius,
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              let us for the preſent ſuſpend our
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              judgement about ſentencing the new opinion to be vain that
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              viatus
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              is about to explicate unto us, nor let us ſo haſtily flye out
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              into paſſion like the ſcolding overgrown Haggs: and as for the
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              Miracle, we may as well recurre to it when we have done
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              ring the Diſcourſes contained within the bounds of natural
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              ſes: though to ſpeak freely, all the Works of nature, or rather
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              of God, are in my judgement miraculous.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And I am of the ſame opinion; nor doth my ſaying,
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              that the motion of the Earth is the Natural cauſe of the ebbing
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              and flowing, hinder, but that the ſaid motion of the Earth may
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              be miraculous. </s>
              <s>Now reaſſuming our Argument, I apply, and
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              once again affirm, that it hath been hitherto unknown how it
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              might be that the Waters contained in our Mediterranean
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              Straights ſhould make thoſe motions, as we ſee it doth, if ſo be
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              the ſaid Straight, or containing Veſſel were immoveable. </s>
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              that which makes the difficulty, and rendreth this matter
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              cable, are the things which I am about to ſpeak of, and which
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              are daily obſerved. </s>
              <s>Therefore lend me your attention.</s>
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              <s>We are here in
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              Venice,
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              where at this time the Waters are low, </s>
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