Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And cannot you,
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              Simplicius,
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              give a reaſon for this,
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              without others prompting you?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Very good, I can ſo; but leave your jeering.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>In like manner you do know the reaſon of this other
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              alſo. </s>
              <s>Tell me therefore; know you that a thing which moveth,
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              being impeded ſtands ſtill?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I know it doth, if the impediment be ſo great as to
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              ſuffice.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Do you know, that moving upon the Earth is a greater
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              impediment to the moveable, than moving in the air, the Earth
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              ing rough and hard, and the air ſoft and yielding?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>And knowing this, I know that the top will turn faſter
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              in the air, than on the ground, ſo that my knowledg is quite
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              trary to what you think it.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Fair and ſoftly,
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              Simplicius.
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              You know that in the
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              parts of a moveable, that turneth about its centre, there are found
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              motions towards all ſides; ſo that ſome aſcend, others deſcend;
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              ſome go forwards, others backwards?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I know it, and
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              Aristotle
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              taught me the ſame.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And with what demonſtration, I pray you?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>With that of ſenſe.</s>
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              <s>SAGR.
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              Ariſtotle,
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              then, hath made you ſee that which without
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              him you would not have ſeen? </s>
              <s>Did he ever lend you his eyes?
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              <s>You would ſay, that
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              Ariſtotle
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              hath told, advertiſed, remembered
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              you of the ſame; and not taught you it. </s>
              <s>When then a top,
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              out changing place, turns round, (or in the childrens phraſe,
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              eth) not paralel, but erect to the Horizon, ſome of its parts aſcend,
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              and the oppoſite deſcend; the ſuperiour go one way, the
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              riour another. </s>
              <s>Fancie now to your ſelf, a top, that without
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              ging place, ſwiftly turns round in that manner, and ſtands
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              ded in the air, and that in that manner turning, it be let fall to the
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              Earth perpendicularly, do you believe, that when it is arrived at
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              the ground, it will continue to turn round in the ſame manner,
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              without changing place, as before?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. No, Sir.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>What will it do then?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>It will run along the ground very faſt.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And towards what part?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Towards that, whither its ^{*}reeling carrieth
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              * Vertigine.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>In its reeling there are parts, that is the uppermoſt, which
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              do move contrary to the inferiour; therefore you muſt inſtance
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              which it ſhall obey: for as to the parts aſcending and deſcending,
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              the one kind will not yield to the other; nor will they all go
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              downwards, being hindered by the Earth, nor upwards as being
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              heavy.</s>
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