Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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greateſt Senſations, as for inſtance it would be, if we that feel the
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reſpirations of a gentle gale, ſhould not feel the impulſe of a
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petual winde that beateth upon us with a velocity that runs more
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than 2529 miles an hour, for ſo much is the ſpace that the centre
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of the Earth in its annual motion paſſeth in an hour upon the
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cumference of the grand Orb, as he diligently calculates; and
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becauſe, as he ſaith, by the judgment of
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Copernicus, Cum terra
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movetur circumpoſitus aër, motus tamen ejus, velocior licet ac
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pidior celerrimo quocunque vento, à nohis non ſentiretur, ſed
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Which I make to
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] The circumpoſed air is moved with the Earth,
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yet its motion, although more ſpeedy and rapid than the ſwifteſt
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wind whatſoever, would not be perceived by us, but then would
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be thought a great tranquillity, unleſſe ſome other motion ſhould
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happen; what then is the deception of the ſenſe, if this be
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The annual
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tion of the Earth
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muſt cauſe a
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petual and ſtrong
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winde.
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that Earth which
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Copernicus
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maketh to turn round, together with
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the ambient air along the circumference of the great Orb, is not that
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whereon we inhabit, but ſome other ſeparated from this; for that this
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of ours carrieth us alſo along with it with the ſame velocity, as
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ſo the circumjacent air: And what beating of the air can we feel,
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when we fly with equal ſpeed from that which ſhould accoſt us?
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>This Gentleman forgot, that we no leſs than the Earth and air are
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carried about, and that conſequently we are always touch'd by
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one and the ſame part of the air, which yet doth not make us feel
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The air alwayes
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touching us with
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the ſame part of it
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cannot make us
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words which immediately follow.
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Præterea nos quoque rotamur
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ex circumductione terræ &c.
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plead for him and bring him off,
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Simplicius.
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pleaſeth me.</
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fend him to morrow; in the mean time let us hear ſome other of
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his objections.</
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way of
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a man muſt deny his own ſenſes. </
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this principle whereby we turn round with the Earth, either is
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intrinſick to us, or external; that is, a rapture of that Earth; and
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if it be this ſecond, we not feeling any ſuch rapture, it muſt be
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confeſſed that the ſenſe of feeling, doth not feel its own object
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touching it, nor its impreſſion on the ſenſible part: but if the </
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