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

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              under ſmall bulk contain much matter, ſhould have narrower
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              ces aſſigned them, leaving the more ſpacious to the more rarified)
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              and there being dead of hunger, and reſolved into Earth, would
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              form a new little Globe, with that little water, which at that time
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              was among the clouds. </s>
              <s>It might be alſo, that thoſe matters as
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              not beholding the light, would not perceive the Earths departure,
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              but like blind things, would deſcend according to their uſual cuſtom
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              to the centre, whither they would now go, if that globe did not
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              hinder them. </s>
              <s>And laſtly, that I may give this Philoſopher a leſs
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              irreſolute anſwer, I do tell him, that I know as much of what
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              would follow upon the annihilation of the Terreſtrial Globe, as
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              he would have done that was to have followed in and about the
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              ſame, before it was created. </s>
              <s>And becauſe I am certain he will
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              ſay, that he would never have been able to have known any of
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              all thoſe things which experience alone hath made him knowing
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              in, he ought not to deny me pardon, and to excuſe me if I know
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              not that which he knows, touching what would enſue upon the
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              annihilation of the ſaid Globe: for that I want that experience
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              which he hath. </s>
              <s>Let us hear if he have any thing elſe to ſay.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>There remains this figure, which repreſents the
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              ſtrial Globe with a great cavity about its centre, full of air; and
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              to ſhew that
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              Graves
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              move not downwards to unite with the
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              reſtrial Globe, as
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              Copernicus
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              ſaith, he conſtituteth this ſtone in
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              the centre; and demandeth, it being left at liberty, what it would
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              do; and he placeth another in the ſpace of this great vacuum, and
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              asketh the ſame queſtion. </s>
              <s>Saying, as to the firſt:
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              Lapis in centro
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              conſtitutus, aut aſcendet ad terram in punctum aliquod, aut non. </s>
              <s>Si
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              ſecundum; falſum est, partes ob ſolam ſejunctionem à toto, ad
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              lud moveri. </s>
              <s>Si primum; omnis ratio & experientia renititur,
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              neque gravia in ſuœ gravitatis centro conquieſcent. </s>
              <s>Item ſi
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              ſpenſus lapis, liberatus decidat in centrum, ſeparabit ſe à toto,
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              tra
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              Copernicum
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              : ſi pendeat, refragatur omnis experientia, cùm
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              videamus integros fornices corruere.
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              (Wherein he ſaith:) The
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              ſtone placed in the centre, either aſcendeth to the Earth in ſome
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              point, or no. </s>
              <s>If the ſecond, it is falſe that the parts ſeparated
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              from the whole, move unto it. </s>
              <s>If the firſt; it contradicteth all
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              reaſon and experience, nor doth the grave body reſt in the centre
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              of its gravity. </s>
              <s>And if the ſtone being ſuſpended in the air, be let
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              go, do deſcend to the centre, it will ſeparate from its whole,
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              trary to
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              Copernicus:
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              if it do hang in the air, it contradicteth all
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              experience: ſince we ſee whole Vaults to fall down.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I will anſwer, though with great diſadvantage to my
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              ſelf, ſeeing I have to do with one who hath ſeen by experience,
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              what theſe ſtones do in this great Cave: a thing, which for my
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              part I have not ſeen; and will ſay, that things grave have an </s>
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