Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              applyed to the Sun, and to the Earth, ſo vaſt and famous bodies
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              of the Univerſe; and it being, moreover, impoſſible, that one of
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              two contradictory Propoſitions, ſhould not be true, and the other
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              falſe; and that for proof of the falſe one, any thing can be
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              duced but fallacies; but the true one being perſwadeable by all
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              kind of concluding and demonſtrative arguments, why ſhould
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              you think that he, of you two, who ſhall be ſo fortunate as to
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              maintain the true Propoſition ought not to perſwade me? </s>
              <s>You
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              muſt ſuppoſe me to be of a ſtupid wit, perverſe judgment, dull
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              mind and intellect, and of a blind reaſon, that I ſhould not be
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              able to diſtinguiſh light from darkneſſe, jewels from coals, or
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              truth from falſhood.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I tell you now, and have told you upon other
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              occaſions, that the beſt Maſter to teach us how to diſcern
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              phiſmes, Paralogiſmes, and other fallacies, was
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              Ariſtotle,
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              who
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              in this particular can never be deceived.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>You inſiſt upon
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              Aristotle,
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              who cannot ſpeak. </s>
              <s>Yet I
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              tell you, that if
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              Ariſtotle
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              were here, he would either yield
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              ſelf to be perſwaded by us, or refuting our arguments, convince
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              us by better of his own. </s>
              <s>And you your ſelf, when you heard the
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              experiments of the Suns related, did you not acknowledg and
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              admire them, and confeſſe them more concludent than thoſe of
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              Ariſtotle?
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              Yet nevertheleſſe I cannot perceive that
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              Salviatus,
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              who hath produced them, examined them, and with exquiſite
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              care ſcan'd them, doth confeſſe himſelf perſwaded by them; no
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              nor by others of greater force, which he intimated that he was
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              about to give us an account of. </s>
              <s>And I know not on what grounds
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              you ſhould cenſure Nature, as one that for many Ages hath
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              been lazie, and forgetful to produce ſpeculative
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              wits
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              ; and
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              that knoweth not how to make more ſuch, unleſſe they be ſuch
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              kind of men as ſlaviſhly giving up their judgments to
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              Ariſtotle,
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              do
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              underſtand with his brain, and reſent with his ſenſes. </s>
              <s>But let us
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              hear the reſidue of thoſe reaſons which favour his opinion, that
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              we may thereupon proceed to ſpeak to them; comparing and
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              weighing them in the ballance of impartiality.</s>
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              Ariſtotle
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              would
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              either refute his
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              adverſaries
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              ments, or would
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              alter his opinion.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Before I proceed any farther, I muſt tell
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              Sagredus,
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              that
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              in theſe our Diſputations, I perſonate the
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              Copernican,
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              , and
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              tate him, as if I were his
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              Zany
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              ; but what hath been effected in
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              my private thoughts by theſe arguments which I ſeem to alledg in
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              his favour, I would not have you to judg by what I ſay, whil'ſt
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              I am in the heat of acting my part in the Fable; but after I have
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              laid by my diſguiſe, for you may chance to find me different
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              from what you ſee me upon the Stage. </s>
              <s>Now let us go on.</s>
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              Ptolomy
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              and his followers produce another experiment like to
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              that of the Projections, and it is of things that being ſeparated </s>
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