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

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              remotiores, in minori circulo feruntur? [ſcilicet:]
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              Why are
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              thoſe near the Æquinoctial carried about in a greater circle, and
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              thoſe which are remote in a leſſer?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>To imitate the ſtarry Sphere, in which thoſe neareſt
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              to the Æquinoctial, move in greater circles, than the more
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              mote.</s>
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              <s>SIMP.
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              Quarè Pila eadem ſub Æquinoctiali tota circa centrum
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              terr æ, ambitu maximo, celeritate incredibili; ſub Polo verò circa
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              centrum proprium, gyro nullo, tarditate ſupremâ volveretur?
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              [That is:]
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              Why is the ſame ball under the Æquinoctial wholly
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              turned round the centre of the Earth in the greateſt
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              rence, with an incredible celerity; but under the Pole about its
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              own centre, in no circuite, but with the ultimate degree of
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              dity?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>To imitate the ſtars of the Firmament, that would do
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              the like if they had the diurnal motion.</s>
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              <s>SIMP.
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              Quare eadem res, pila v. </s>
              <s>g. </s>
              <s>plumbea, ſi ſemel terram
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              circuivit, deſcripto circulo maximo, eandem ubique non
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              migret ſecundùm circulum maximum, ſed tranſlata extra
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              ctialem in circulis minoribus agetur? [Which ſpeaketh thus:]
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              Why doth not the ſame thing, as for example, a ball of lead
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              turn round every where according to the ſame great circle, if once
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              deſcribing a great circle, it hath incompaſſed the Earth, but being
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              removed from the Æquinoctial, doth move in leſſer circles?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Becauſe ſo would, nay, according to the doctrine of
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              Ptolomey,
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              ſo have ſome fixed ſtars done, which once were very
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              near the Æquinoctial, and deſcribed very vaſt circles, and now that
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              they are farther off, deſcribe leſſer.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>If I could now but keep in mind all theſe fine
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              tions, I ſhould think that I had made a great purchaſe; I muſt
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              needs intreat you,
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              Simplicius,
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              to lend me this Book, for there
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              not chuſe but be a ſea of rare and ingenious matters contained in
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              it.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I will preſent you with it.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Not ſo, Sir; I would not deprive you of it: but are
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              the Queries yet at an end?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>No Sir; hearken therefore.
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              Si latio circularis
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              vibus & levibus eſt naturalis, qualis eſt ea quæ fit ſecundùm
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              am rectam? </s>
              <s>Nam ſi naturalis, quomodo & is motus qui circum est,
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              naturalis eſt, cùm ſpecie differat à recto? </s>
              <s>Si violentus, quî fit, ut
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              miſſile ignitum ſurſùm evolans ſcintilloſum caput ſurſùm à terrâ,
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              non autem circum volvatur, &c. [Which take in our idiom:]
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              If
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              a circular lation is natural to heavy and light things, what is that
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              which is made according to a right line? </s>
              <s>For if it be natural, how
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              then is that motion which is about the centre natural, ſeeing it </s>
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