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

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              tures themſelves, which yet move naturally, and from an intern
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              principle, do grow weary, and have need of reſt to relax and
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              freſh their members --------</s>
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              An explanation
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              of the true ſenſe of
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              Kepler
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              and his
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              fence.
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              The greatneſſe
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              and ſmalneſſe of
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              the body make a
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              difference in
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              on and not in reſt.
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              The order of
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              ture is to make the
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              leſſer Orbs to
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              culate in ſhorter
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              times, and the
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              ger in longer times.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Methinks I hear
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              Kepler
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              anſwer him to that, that
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              there are ſome kinde of animals which refreſh themſelves after
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              wearineſſe, by rowling on the Earth; and that therefore there
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              is no need to fear that the Terreſtrial Globe ſhould tire, nay it
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              may be reaſonably affirmed, that it enjoyeth a perpetual & moſt
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              tranquil repoſe, keeping it ſelf in an eternal rowling.</s>
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              The feigned
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              ſwer of
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              Kepler
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              vered with an
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              tificial Irony.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You are too tart and Satyrical,
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              Sagredus:
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              but let us
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              lay aſide jeſts, whilſt we are treating of ſerious things.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>Excuſe me,
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              Salviatus,
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              this that I ſay is not ſo
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              lutely beſides the buſineſs, as you perhaps make it; for a motion
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              that ſerveth inſtead of reſt, and removeth wearineſs from a body
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              tired with travail, may much more eaſily ſerve to prevent the
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              ming of that wearineſs, like as preventive remedies are more eaſie
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              than curative. </s>
              <s>And I hold for certain, that if the motion of
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              mals ſhould proceed in the ſame manner as this that is aſcribed to
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              the Earth, they would never grow weary; Seeing that the
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              neſs of the living creature, deriveth it ſelf, in my opinion, from
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              the imployment of but one part alone in the moving of its ſelf,
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              and all the reſt of the body; as
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              v. </s>
              <s>g.
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              in walking, the thighs and
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              the legs onely are imployed for carrying themſelves and all the
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              reſt: on the contrary, you ſee the motion of the heart to be as it
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              were indefatigable, becauſe it moveth it ſelf alone. </s>
              <s>Beſides, I
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              know not how true it may be, that the motion of the animal is
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              tural, and not rather violent: nay, I believe that one may truly
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              ſay, that the ſoul naturally moveth the members of an animal with
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              a motion preternatural, for if the motion upwards is
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              ral to grave bodies, the lifting up of the legs, and the thighs,
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              which are grave bodies, in walking, cannot be done without
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              lence, and therefore not without labour to the mover. </s>
              <s>The
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              climbing upwards by a ladder carrieth the grave body contrary to
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              its natural inclination upwards, from whence followeth wearineſs,
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              by reaſon of the bodies natural averſneſs to that motion: but in
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              moving a moveable with a motion, to which it hath no averſion,
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              what laſſitude, what diminution of vertue and ſtrength need we
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              fear in the mover? </s>
              <s>and how ſhould the forces waſte, where they
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              are not at all imployed?</s>
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              Animals would
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              not grow weary of
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              their motion,
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              ceeding as that
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              which is aſſigned
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              to the terreſtrial
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              Globe.
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              The cauſe of the
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              wearineſſe of
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              mals.
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              The motion of
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              an animal is rather
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              to be called violent
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              than natural.
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              The ſtrength
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              miniſheth not,
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              where it is not
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              ployed.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>They are the contrary motions wherewith the Earth is
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              pretended to move, againſt which the Authour produceth his
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              gument.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>It hath been ſaid already, that they are no wiſe
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              traries, and that herein the Authour is extteamly deceived, ſo
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              that the whole ſtrength of the argument recoileth upon the </s>
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