Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              incavity one may form Spheres of ſeveral magnitudes. </s>
              <s>But what
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              is required to the making of an Horſe, or (as you ſay) of a
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              hopper, I leave to you to judge, who know that there are but few
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              ſtatuaries in the world able to undertake ſuch a piece of work.
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              <s>And I think that herein
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              Simplicius
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              will not diſſent from me.</s>
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              The Sphericall
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              Figure is eaſier to
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              be made than any
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              other.
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              The circular
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              gure only is placed
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              amongst the
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              lata
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              of
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              ticians.
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              * Demands or
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              Petitions.</s>
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              Sphericall
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              gures of ſundry
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              magnitudes may
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              be made with one
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              onely inſtrument.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I know not whether I do at all diffent from you; my
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              opinion is this, that none of the afore-named figures can be
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              fectly obteined; but for the approaching as neer as is poſſible to
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              the moſt perfect degree, I believe that it is incomparably more
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              ſie to reduce the Solid into a Spherical figure, than into the ſhape
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              of an Horſe, or Graſſe-hopper?</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And this greater difficulty, wherein think you doth it
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              depend?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Like as the great facility in forming the Sphere ariſeth
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              from its abſolute ſimplicity and uniformity ſo the great
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              larity rendereth the conſtruction of all other figures difficult.</s>
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              Irregular forms
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              difficult to be
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              troduced.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Therefore the irregularity being the cauſe of the
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              culty, than the figure of a ſtone broken with an hammer by
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              chance, ſhall be one of the figures that are difficult to be
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              ced, it being perhaps more irregular than that of the horſe?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>So it ſhould be.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>But tell me; that figure what ever it is which the ſtone
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              hath, hath it the ſame in perfection, or no?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>What it hath, it hath ſo perfectly, that nothing can be
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              more exact.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. Then, if of figures that are irregular, and
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              ly hard to be procured, there are yet infinite which are moſt
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              fectly obteined, with what reaſon can it be ſaid, that the moſt
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              ſimple, and conſequently the moſt eaſie of all, is impoſſible to be
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              procured?</s>
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              <s>SALV. Gentlemen, with your favour, I may ſay that we have
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              ſallied out into a diſpute not much more worth than the wool of a
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              goat; and whereas our argumentations ſhould continually be
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              verſant about ſerious and weighty points, we conſume our time in
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              frivolous and impertinent wranglings. </s>
              <s>Let us call to minde, I pray
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              you, that the ſearch of the worlds conſtitution, is one of the
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              teſt and nobleſt Problems that are in nature; and ſo much the
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              greater, inaſmuch as it is directed to the reſolving of that other;
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              to wit, of the cauſe of the Seas ebbing and flowing, enquired
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              to by all the famous men, that have hitherto been in the world,
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              and poſſibly found out by none of them. </s>
              <s>Therefore if we have
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              nothing more remaining for the full confutation of the argument
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              taken from the Earths
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              vertigo,
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              which was the laſt, alledged to
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              prove its immobility upon its own centre, let us paſſe to the
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              amination of thoſe things that are alledged for, and againſt the
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              Annual Motion.
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