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

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              Earth is to carry along with it a thouſand bodies, each much
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              ger than the Terreſtrial Globe.</s>
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              * Cinque ò ſei
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              braccia Fiorentini.</s>
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              Wearineß more
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              to be feared in the
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              ſtarry Sphere than
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              in the terreſtriall
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              Globe.
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              <s>Here it remains for us to ſee the proofs, whereby the Authour
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              concludes the new ſtars
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              Anno
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              1572. and
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              Anno
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              1604. to be
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              nary, and not cœleſtial, as the
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              Astronomers
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              of thoſe times were
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              generally perſwaded; an enterprize very great certainly; but I
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              have conſidered, that it will be better, in regard the Book is new
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              and long, by reaſon of its many calculations, that between this
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              vening and to morrow morning I make them as plain as I can, and
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              ſo meeting you again to morrow to continue our wonted
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              rences, give you a brief of what I ſhall obſerve therein; and if we
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              have time left, we will ſay ſomething of the
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              Annual motion
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              bed to the Earth. </s>
              <s>In the mean time, if either of you, and
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              cius
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              in particular, hath any thing to ſay more, touching what relates
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              to the
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              Diurnal motion,
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              at large examined by me, we have a little
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              time ſtill left to treat thereof.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I have no more to ſay, unleſſe it be this, that the
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              ſes that this day have falne under our debate, have appeared to me
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              fraught with very acute and ingenious notions, alledged on
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              nicus
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              his ſide, in confirmation of the motion of the Earth, but yet
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              I find not my ſelf perſwaded to believe it; for in ſhort, the things
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              that have been ſaid conclude no more but this, that the reaſons
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              for the ſtability of the Earth are not neceſſary; but all the while
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              no demonſtration hath been produced on the other ſide, that doth
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              neceſſarily convince and prove its mobility.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I never undertook,
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              Simplicius,
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              to remove you from that
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              your opinion; much leſs dare I preſume to determine definitively
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              in this controverſie: it onely was, and ſtill ſhall be in the enſuing
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              diſputations my intent, to make it appear to you, that thoſe who
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              have thought that moſt ſwift motion of 24 hours doth belong to
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              the Earth alone, and not to the Univerſe, the Earth onely
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              ded, were not induced to believe, that ſo it might and ought to do
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              out of any blind perſwaſion; but that they did very well ſee, try,
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              and examine the reaſons on the contrary ſide, and alſo not
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              ly anſwer them. </s>
              <s>With the ſame intention, if it ſtand with your
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              liking, and that of
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              Sagredus,
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              we may paſſe to the conſideration of
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              that other motion; firſt, by
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              Aristarchus Samius,
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              and afterwards
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              by
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              Nicholaus Copernicus
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              aſcribed to the ſaid Terreſtrial Globe,
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              which is, as, I believe, you have heretofore heard, made under the
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              Zodiack within the ſpace of a year about the Sun, immoveably
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              placed in the centre of the ſaid Zodiack.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>The diſquiſition is ſo great, and ſo noble, that I ſhall
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              gladly hearken to the diſcuſſion thereof, perſwading my ſelf that I
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              ſhall hear what ever can be ſaid of that matter. </s>
              <s>And I will </s>
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