Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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memory for he did not write to the vulgar, nor is he obliged to
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ſpin out his Sillogiſmes with the trivial method of diſputes; nay
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rather, uſing a freedome, he hath ſometimes placed the proof
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of one Propoſition amongſt Texts, which ſeem to treat of quite
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another point; and therefore it is requiſite to be maſter of all
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and to learn how to connect this paſſage with that,
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and to combine this Text with another far remote from it; for it
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is not to be queſtioned but that he who hath thus ſtudied him,
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knows how to gather from his Books the demonſtrations of every
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knowable deduction, for that they contein all things.</
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Requiſites to fit
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riſtotle.</
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>But good
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Simplicius,
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like as the things ſcattered here
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and there in
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Ariſtotle,
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give you no trouble in collecting them,
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but that you perſwade your ſelf to be able by comparing and
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connecting ſeveral ſmall ſentences to extract thence the juice of
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ſome deſired concluſion, ſo this, which you and other
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ous Philoſophers do with the Text of
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Ariſtotle,
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I could do by the
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verſes of
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Virgil,
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or of
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Ovid,
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compoſing thereof ^{*}
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Centones,
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and
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therewith explaining all the affairs of men, and ſecrets of
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ture. </
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Virgil,
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or any other Poet? </
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tle Book much ſhorter than
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Ariſtotle
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and
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Ovid,
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in which are
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teined all the Sciences, and with very little ſtudy, one may gather
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out of it a moſt perfect
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Idea,
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and this is the
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Alphabet
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; and there
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is no doubt but that he who knows how to couple and diſpoſe
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aright this and that vowel, with thoſe, or thoſe other conſonants,
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may gather thence the infallible anſwers to all doubts, and
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duce from them the principles of all Sciences and Arts, juſt in the
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ſame manner as the Painter from divers ſimple colours, laid
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rally upon his
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Pallate,
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proceedeth by mixing a little of this and
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a little of that, with a little of a third, to repreſent to the life
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men, plants, buildings, birds, fiſhes, and in a word,
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ing what ever object is viſible, though there be not on the
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Pallate
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all the while, either eyes, or feathers, or fins, or leaves, or ſtones.
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ted, or any part of them, be actually among colours, if you
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would be able therewith to repreſent all things; for ſhould there
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be amongſt them
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feathers, theſe would ſerve to repreſent
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nothing ſave birds, and plumed creatures.</
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A cunning way
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phy out of any book
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* A word
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ing works
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ſed of many
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ments of verſes
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collected out of the
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who were preſent, when a Doctor, that was Profeſſor in a
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mous Academy, hearing the deſcription of the
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Teleſcope,
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by him
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not ſeen as then, ſaid, that the invention was taken from
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ſtotle,
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and cauſing his works to be fetch't, he turned to a place
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where the Philoſopher gives the reaſon, whence it commeth, that
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from the bottom of a very deep Well, one may ſee the ſtars in
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Heaven, at noon day; and, addreſſing himſelf to the company, </
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