Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              even, to wit, the ſurfaces of very vaſt Seas, which being alſo far
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              remote from the continuate ledges of Mountains which environ
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              it, ſeem to have no faculty of carrying the ſuper-ambient Air
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              along therewith: and not carrying it about, we may perceive what
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              will of conſequence enſue in thoſe places.</s>
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              The revolution of
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              the Earth
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              firmed by a new
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              argument taken
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              from the Air.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I was about to propoſe the very ſame difficulty, which
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              I think is of great validity.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You ſay very well
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              Simplicius,
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              for from the not finding
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              in the Air that which of conſequence would follow, did this our
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              Globe move round; you argue its immoveableneſſe. </s>
              <s>But in caſe
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              that this which you think ought of neceſſary conſequence to be
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              found, be indeed by experience proved to be ſo; will you accept
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              it for a ſufficient teſtimony and an argument for the mobility of
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              the ſaid Globe?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>In this caſe it is not requiſite to argue with me alone,
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              for if it ſhould ſo fall out, and that I could not comprehend the
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              cauſe thereof, yet haply it might be known by others.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>So that by playing with you, a man ſhall never get, but
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              be alwayes on the loſing hand; and therefore it would be better
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              to give over: Nevertheleſs, that we may not cheat our third man
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              we will play on. </s>
              <s>We ſaid even now, and with ſome addition we
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              reitterate it, that the Ayr as if it were a thin and fluid body, and
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              not ſolidly conjoyned with the Earth, ſeem'd not to be
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              tated to obey its motion; unleſſe ſo far as the craggineſs of the
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              terreſtrial ſuperficies, tranſports and carries with it a part
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              of contigious thereunto; which doth not by any great ſpace
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              ceed the greateſt altitude of Mountains: the which portion of Air
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              ought to be ſo much leſs repugnant to the terreſtrial converſion,
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              by how much it is repleat with vapours, fumes, and exhalations,
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              matters all participating of terrene qualities, and conſequently
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              apt of their own nature to the ſame motions. </s>
              <s>But where there are
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              wanting the cauſes of motion, that is, where the ſurface of the
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              Globe hath great levels, and where there is leſs mixture of the
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              terrene vapours, there the cauſe whereby the ambient Air is
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              ſtrained to give entire obedience to the terreſtrial converſion will
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              ceaſe in part; ſo that in ſuch places, whilſt the Earth revolveth
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              wards the Eaſt, there will be continually a wind perceived which
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              will beat upon us, blowing from the Eaſt towards the Weſt:
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              and ſuch gales will be the more ſenſible, where the revolution of
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              the Globe is moſt ſwift; which will be in places more remote from
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              the Poles, and approaching to the greateſt Circle of the diurnal
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              converſion. </s>
              <s>But now
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              de facto
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              experience much confi meth this
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              Phyloſophical argumentation; for in the ſpatious Seas, and in their
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              parts moſt remote from Land, and ſituate under the Torrid Zone,
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              that is bounded by the Tropicks, where there are none of thoſe </s>
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