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

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              circularly along with the vertigenous diurnal revolution is
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              lutely natural: againſt which he objecteth, ſaying, that according
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              to theſe mens opinion;
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              Si tota terra, unà cum aquâ in nihilum
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              redigeretur, nulla grando aut pluvia è nube decideret, ſed
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              raliter tantùm circumferetur, neque ignis ullus, aut igneum
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              deret, cùm illorum non improbabili ſententià ignis nullus ſit ſuprà.
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              [Which I tranſlate to this ſenſe:] If the whole Earth, together
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              with the Water were reduced into nothing, no hail or rain would
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              fall from the clouds, but would be onely naturally carried round;
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              neither any fire or fiery thing would aſcend, ſeeing to theſe that men
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              it is no improbable opinion that there is no fire above.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The providence of this Philoſopher is admirable, and
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              worthy of great applauſe, for he is not content to provide for
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              things that might happen, the courſe of Nature continuing, but
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              will ſhew hic care in what may follow from thoſe things that he
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              very well knows ſhall never come to paſs. </s>
              <s>I will grant him
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              fore, (that I may get ſom pretty paſſages out of him) that if the
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              Earth and Water ſhould be reduced to nothing, there would be no
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              more hails or rains, nor would igneal matters aſcend any longer
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              upwards, but would continually turn round: what will follow?
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              <s>what will the Philoſopher ſay then?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>The objection is in the words which immediately
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              low; here they are:
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              Quibus tamen experientia & ratio
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              ſatur.
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              Which nevertheleſs (ſaith he) is contrary to experience and
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              reaſon.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Now I muſt yield, ſeeing he hath ſo great an
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              tage of me as experience, of which I am unprovided. </s>
              <s>For as yet
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              I never had the fortune to ſee the Terreſtrial Globe and the
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              ment of Water turn'd to nothing, ſo as to have been able to
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              ſerve what the hail and water did in that little Chaos. </s>
              <s>But he
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              perhaps tells us for our inſtruction what they did.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. No, he doth not.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I would give any thing to change a word or two with
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              this perſon, to ask him, whether when this Globe vaniſhed, it
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              ried away with it the common centre of gravity, as I believe it did;
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              in which caſe, I think that the hail and water would remain
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              ſate and ſtupid amongſt the clouds, without knowing what to do
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              with themſelves. </s>
              <s>It might be alſo, that attracted by that great
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              void
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              Vacuum,
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              left by the Earths abſenting, all the ambients would
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              be rarified, and particularly, the air, which is extreme eaſily drawn,
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              and would run thither with very great haſte to fill it up. </s>
              <s>And
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              perhaps the more ſolid and material bodies, as birds, (for there
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              would in all probability be many of them ſcattered up and down
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              in the air) would retire more towards the centre of the great
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              cant ſphere; (for it ſeemeth very reaſonable, that ſubſtances that </s>
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