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

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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I would anſwer for my ſelf in general terms, that if
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              it were appointed by the will of God, that the Earth ſhould ceaſe
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              from its diurnal revolution, thoſe birds would do what ever ſhould
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              pleaſe the ſame Divine will. </s>
              <s>But if this Author deſire a more
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              particular anſwer, I ſhould tell him, that they would do quite
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              trary to what they do now, if whilſt they, being ſeparated from
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              the Earth, do bear themſelves up in the air, the Terreſtrial Globe
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              by the will of God, ſhould all on a ſudden be put upon a
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              tate motion; it concerneth this Author now to aſcertain us what
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              would in this caſe ſucceed.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I pray you,
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              Salviatus,
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              at my requeſt to grant to this
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              Author, that the Earth ſtanding ſtill by the will of God, the other
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              things, ſeparated from it, would continue to turn round of their
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              own natural motion, and let us hear what impoſſibilities or
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              veniences would follow: for I, as to my own particular, do not
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              ſee how there can be greater diſorders, than theſe produced by the
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              Author himſelf, that is, that Larks, though they ſhould flie, could
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              not be able to hover over their neſts, nor Crows over ſnails, or
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              rocks: from whence would follow, that Crows muſt ſuffer for
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              want of ſnails, and young Larks muſt die of hunger, and cold, not
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              being able to be fed or ſheltered by the wings of the old ones.
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              <s>This is all the ruine that I can conceive would follow, ſuppoſing
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              the Authors ſpeech to be true. </s>
              <s>Do you ſee,
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              Simplicius,
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              if
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              ter inconveniences would happen?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I know not how to diſcover greater; but it is very
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              dible, that the Author beſides theſe, diſcovered other diſorders in
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              Nature, which perhaps in reverend reſpect of her, he was not
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              ing to inſtance in. </s>
              <s>Therefore let us proceed to the third
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              ction.
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              Inſuper quî fit, ut istæ res tam variæ tantùm moveantur
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              ab Occaſu in Ortum, parallelæ ad Æquatorem? </s>
              <s>ut ſemper
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              tur, nunquam quieſcant? [which ſpeaks to this ſenſe:]
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              Moreover,
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              how comes it to paſs that theſe things, ſo diverſe, are onely moved
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              from the Weſt towards the Eaſt, parallel to the Æquinoctial?
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              <s>that they always move, and never reſt?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>They move from Weſt to Eaſt parallel to the
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              noctial without ceaſing, in the ſame manner as you believe the
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              fixed ſtars to move from Eaſt to Weſt, parallel to the
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              al, without ever reſting.</s>
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              <s>SIMP.
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              Quarè, quò ſunt altiores, celeriùs; quò humiliores,
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              diùs? (i. </s>
              <s>e.)
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              Why are the higher the ſwifter, and the lower the
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              ſlower?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Becauſe that in a Sphere or circle, that turns about
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              on its own centre, the remoter parts deſcribe greater circuits, and
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              the parts nearer at hand deſcribe leſſer in the ſame time.</s>
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              <s>SIMP.
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              Quare, quæ Æquinoctiali propriores, in majori; quæ
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