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

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              no bigger than a Cart-wheel, with making not 365, but leſſe than
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              20 revolutions, to deſcribe and meaſure the circumference, not
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              onely of the grand Orb, but of one a thouſand times greater;
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              and this I ſ y to ſhew, that there do not want far greater
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              ties, than this wherewith your Author goeth about to detect the
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              errour of
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              Copernicus
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              : but I pray you, let us breath a little, that
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              ſo we may proceed to the other Philoſopher, that oppoſeth of the
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              ſame
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              Copernicus.
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              It is not
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              ble with the
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              cumference of a
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              ſmall circle few
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              times revolved to
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              meaſure and
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              ſcribe a line bigger
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              than any great
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              cle what ſoever.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>To confeſſe the truth, I ſtand as much in need of
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              ſpite as either of you; though I have onely wearied my eares:
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              and were it not that I hope to hear more ingenious things from
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              this other Author, I queſtion whether I ſhould not go my ways, to
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              take the air in my ^{*} Pleaſure-boat.</s>
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              Gondola.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I believe that you will hear things of greater moment;
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              for this is a moſt accompliſhed Philoſopher, and a great
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              tician, and hath confuted
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              Tycho
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              in the buſineſſe of the Comets,
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              and new
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              * The name of
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              the
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              Author
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              is
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              pie Claramontius.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Perhaps he is the ſame with the Author of the Book,
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              called
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              Anti-Tycho
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              ?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>He is the very ſame: but the confutation of the new
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              Stars is not in his
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              Anti-Tycho,
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              onely ſo far as he proveth, that they
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              were not prejudicial to the inalterability and ingenerability of the
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              Heavens, as I told you before; but after he had publiſhed his
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              Anti-Tycho,
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              having found out, by help of the Parallaxes, a way to
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              demonſtrate, that they alſo are things elementary, and contained
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              within the concave of the Moon, he hath writ this other Book,
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              de tribus uovis Stellis, &c.
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              and therein alſo inſerted the
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              ments againſt
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              Copernicus
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              : I have already ſhewn you what he
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              harh written touching theſe new Stars in his
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              Anti-Tycho,
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              where he
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              denied not, but that they were in the Heavens; but he proved, that
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              their production altered not the inalterability of the Heavens, and
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              that he did, with a Diſcourſe purely philoſophical, in the ſame man
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              ner as you have already heard. </s>
              <s>And I then forgot to tell you, how
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              that he afterwards did finde out a way to remove them out of the
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              Heavens; for he proceeding in this confutation, by way of
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              putations and parallaxes, matters little or nothing at all
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              ſtood by me, I did not mention them to you, but have bent all my
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              ſtudies upon theſe arguments againſt the motion of the Earth,
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              which are purely natural.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I underſtand you very well: and it will be convenient
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              after we have heard what he hath to ſay againſt
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              Copernicus,
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              that
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              we hear, or ſee at leaſt the manner wherewith he, by way of
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              rallaxes, proveth thoſe new ſtars to be elementary, which ſo many
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              famous Aſtronomers conſtitute to be all very high, and amongſt
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              the ſtars of the Firmament; and as this Author accompliſheth ſuch </s>
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