Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              made moveable, when the ſaid
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              Pythagoras
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              aſcribed unto it
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              tion.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>We can think no other, if we do but conſider the way
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              he taketh to confute their aſſertion; the confutation of which
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              conſiſts in the demolition of buildings, and the toſſing of ſtones,
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              living creatures and men themſelves up into the Air. </s>
              <s>And
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              cauſe ſuch overthrows and extruſions cannot be made upon
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              dings and men, which were not before on the Earth, nor can men
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              be placed, nor buildings erected upon the Earth, unleſſe when it
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              ſtandeth ſtill; hence therefore it is cleer, that
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              Ptolomy
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              argueth
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              gainſt thoſe, who having granted the ſtability of the Earth for
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              ſome time, that is, ſo long as living creatures, ſtones, and Maſons
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              were able to abide there, and to build Palaces and Cities, make it
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              afterwards precipitately moveable to the overthrow and
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              of Edifices, and living creatures, &c. </s>
              <s>For if he had undertook to
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              diſpute againſt ſuch as had aſcribed that revolution to the Earth
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              from its firſt creation, he would have confuted them by ſaying,
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              that if the Earth had alwayes moved, there could never have been
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              placed upon it either men or ſtones; much leſs could buildings
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              have been erected, or Cities founded, &c.</s>
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              Ariſtotle
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              and
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              Ptolomy
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              ſeem to
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              confute the
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              ty of the Earth
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              gainſt thoſe who
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              thought that it
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              ving a long time
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              ſtood still, did
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              gin to move in the
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              time of
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              Pythagoras</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I do not well conceive theſe
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              Ariſtotelick
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              and
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              maick
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              inconveniences.</s>
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              <s>SALV.
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              Ptolomey
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              either argueth againſt thoſe who have
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              ed the Earth always moveable; or againſt ſuch as have held that
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              it ſtood for ſome time ſtill, and hath ſince been ſet on moving.
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              <s>If againſt the firſt, he ought to ſay, that the Earth did not always
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              move, for that then there would never have been men, animals, or
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              edifices on the Earth, its
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              vertigo
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              not permitting them to ſtay
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              thereon. </s>
              <s>But in that he arguing, ſaith that the Earth doth not
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              move, becauſe that beaſts, men, and houſes before plac'd on the
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              Earth would precipitate, he ſuppoſeth the Earth to have been once
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              in ſuch a ſtate, as that it did admit men and beaſts to ſtay, and
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              build thereon; the which draweth on the conſequence, that it
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              did for ſome time ſtand ſtill, to wit, was apt for the abode of
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              nimals and erection of buildings. </s>
              <s>Do you now conceive what I
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              would ſay?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I do, and I do not: but this little importeth to the
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              merit of the cauſe; nor can a ſmall miſtake of
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              Ptolomey,
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              mitted through inadvertencie be ſufficient to move the Earth,
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              when it is immoveable. </s>
              <s>But omitting cavils, let us come to the
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              ſubſtance of the argument, which to me ſeems unanſwerable.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And I,
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              Simplicius,
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              will drive it home, and re-inforce it,
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              by ſhewing yet more ſenſibly, that it is true that grave bodies
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              turn'd with velocity about a ſettled centre, do acquire an
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              impetus
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              of moving, and receding to a diſtance from that centre, even </s>
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