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

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              videtur agnita. (In Engliſh thus:)
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              Contrary to which poſition
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              there do ariſe moſt difficult, yea inextricable ſecond queſtions,
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              ſuch as theſe; That intern principle is either an accident, or a
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              ſubſtance. </s>
              <s>If the firſt; what manner of accident is it? </s>
              <s>For a
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              locomotive quality about the centre, ſeemeth to be hitherto
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              knowledged by none.</s>
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              <s>SALV. How, is there no ſuch thing acknowledged? </s>
              <s>Is it not
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              known to us, that all theſe elementary matters move round,
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              gether with the Earth? </s>
              <s>You ſee how this Author ſuppoſeth for
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              true, that which is in queſtion.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>He ſaith, that we do not ſee the ſame; and me thinks,
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              he hath therein reaſon on his ſide.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>We ſee it not, becauſe we turn round together with
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              them.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Hear his other Argument.
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              Quæ etiam ſi eſſet,
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              modo tamen inveniretur in rebus tam contrariis? </s>
              <s>in igne, ut in
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              quâ; in aëre, ut in terra; in viventibus, ut in anima carentibus?
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              [in Engliſh thus:]
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              Which although it were, yet how could it be
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              found in things ſo contrary? </s>
              <s>in the fire, as in the water? </s>
              <s>in the
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              air, as in the earth? </s>
              <s>in living creatures, as in things wanting
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              life?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Suppoſing for this time, that water and fire are
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              ries; as alſo the air and earth; (of which yet much may be ſaid)
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              the moſt that could follow from thence would be, that thoſe
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              tions cannot be common to them, that are contrary to one
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              ther: ſo that
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              v. </s>
              <s>g.
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              the motion upwards, which naturally agreeth
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              to fire, cannot agree to water; but that, like as it is by nature
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              trary to fire: ſo to it that motion ſuiteth, which is contrary to the
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              motion of fire, which ſhall be the motion
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              deorſùm
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              ; but the
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              cular motion, which is not contrary either to the motion
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              ſurſùm,
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              or to the motion
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              deorſùm,
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              but may mix with both, as
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              Aristotle
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              himſelf affirmeth, why may it not equally ſuit with grave bodies
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              and with light? </s>
              <s>The motions in the next place, which cannot be
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              common to things alive, and dead, are thoſe which depend on the
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              ſoul: but thoſe which belong to the body, in as much as it is
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              mentary, and conſequently participateth of the qualities of the
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              lements, why may not they be common as well to the dead corps,
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              as to the living body? </s>
              <s>And therefore, if the circular motion be
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              proper to the elements, it ought to be common to the mixt bodies
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              alſo.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>It muſt needs be, that this Author holdeth, that a dead
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              cat, falling from a window, it is not poſſible that a live cat alſo
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              could fall; it not being a thing convenient, that a carcaſe ſhould
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              partake of the qualities which ſuit with things alive.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Therefore the diſcourſe of this Author concludeth </s>
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