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

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              ponent himſelf, whilſt he will make the
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              Firſt Mover
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              to hurry
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              along with it all the inferiour Spheres, contrary to the motion
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              which they themſelves at the ſame time exerciſe. </s>
              <s>It belongs
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              fore to the
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              Primum Mobile
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              to grow weary, which beſides the
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              moving of its ſelf is made to carry ſo many other Spheres, and
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              which alſo ſtrive againſt it with a contrary motion. </s>
              <s>So that
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              the ultimate concluſion that the Authour inferred, ſaying, that
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              diſcourſing of the effects of Nature, a man alwayes meets with
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              things that favour the opinion of
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              Ariſtoile
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              and
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              Ptolomy,
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              and
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              ver any one that doth not interfer with
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              Copernicus,
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              ſtands in need
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              of great conſideration; and it is better to ſay, that one of theſe
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              two
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              Hypotheſes
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              being true, and the other neceſſarily falſe, it is
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              impoſſible that a man ſhould ever be able to finde any
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              ment, experience, or right reaſon, in favour of that which is
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              falſe, like as to the truth none of theſe things can be repugnant.
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              <s>Vaſt difference, therefore, muſt needs be found between the
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              ſons and arguments produced by the one and other party, for and
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              againſt theſe two opinions, the force of which I leave you your
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              ſelf to judge of,
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              Simplicius.
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              The argument
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              of
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              Claramontius
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              recoileth upon
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              ſelf.
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              True
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              ons meet with
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              ny concluſive
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              guments, ſo do not
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              the falſe.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But you,
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              Sagredus,
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              being tranſported by the velocity
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              of your wit, have taken my words out of my mouth, whilſt I was
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              about to ſay ſomething, touching this laſt argument of the Author;
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              and although you have more then ſufficiently refuted him, yet
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              nevertheleſſe I will adde ſomewhat, which then ran in my minde.
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              <s>He propoſeth it as a thing very unlikely, that a body diſſipable
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              and corruptible, as the Earth, ſhould perpetually move with a
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              gular motion, cſpecially for that we ſee living creatures in the end
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              to grow weary, and to ſtand in need of reſt: and the improbability
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              is increaſed, in that the ſaid motion is required to be of velocity
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              incomparable and immenſe, in reſpect to that of animals. </s>
              <s>Now, I
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              cannot ſee why the velocity of the Earth ſhould, at preſent,
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              ble it; ſo long as that of the ſtarry Sphere ſo very much bigger
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              doth not occaſion in it any diſturbance more conſiderable, than that
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              which the velocity of a machine, that in 24 hours maketh but one
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              ſole revolution, produceth in the ſame. </s>
              <s>If the being of the
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              city of the Earths converſion, according to the model of that
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              chine, inferreth things of no greater moment than that, let the
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              thor ceaſe to fear the Earths growing weary; for that not one of
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              the moſt feeble and ſlow-pac't animals, no not a Chamæleon would
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              tire in moving no more than ^{*} four or five yards in 24 hours; but
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              if he pleaſe to conſider the velocity to be no longer, in relation to
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              the model of the machine, but abſolutely, and inaſmuch as the
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              moveable in 24 hours is to paſs a very great ſpace, he ought to ſhew
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              himſelf ſo much more reſerved in granting it to the ſtarry Sphere,
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              which with a velocity incomparably greater than that of the </s>
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