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

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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>You have done very well; but if we would re-aſſume
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              our Diſputations according to yeſterdayes appointment, it is
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              quiſite that we firſt hear what account
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              Salviatus
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              hath to give us
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              of the Book,
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              De ſtellis novis,
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              and then without interruption we
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              may proceed to the Annual motion. </s>
              <s>Now what ſay you,
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              tus
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              touching thoſe ſtars? </s>
              <s>Are they really pull'd down from
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              ven to theſe lower regions, by vertue of that Authours
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              ons, whom
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              Simplicius
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              mentioneth?</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I ſet my ſelf laſt night to peruſe his proceedings, and I
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              have this morning had another view of him, to ſee whether that
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              which he ſeemed over night to affirm, were really his ſenſe, or my
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              dreams and phantaſtical nocturnal imaginations; and in the cloſe
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              found to my great grief that thoſe things were really written and
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              printed, which for the reputation-ſake of this Philoſopher I was
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              unwilling to believe. </s>
              <s>It is in my judgment impoſſible, but that he
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              ſhould perceive the vanity of his undertaking, aſwell becauſe it is
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              too apert, as becauſe I remember, that I have heard him
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              ned with applauſe by the
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              Academick our Friend
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              : it ſeemeth to
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              me alſo to be a thing very unlikely, that in complacency to others,
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              he ſhould be induced to ſet ſo low a value upon his reputation, as
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              to give conſent to the publication of a work, for which he could
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              expect no other than the cenſure of the Learned.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. Yea, but you know, that thoſe will be much fewer
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              than one for an hundred, compared to thoſe that ſhall celebrate
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              and extoll him above the greateſt wits that are, or ever have been
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              in the world: He is one that hath mentioned the
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              tick inalterability of Heaven againſt a troop of
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              Aſtronomers,
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              and
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              that to their greater diſgrace hath foiled them at their own
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              pons; and what do you think four or five in a Countrey that
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              cern his triflings, can do againſt the innumerable multitude, that,
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              not being able to diſcover or comprehend them, ſuffer themſelves
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              to be taken with words, and ſo much more applaud him, by how
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              much the leſſe they underſtand him? </s>
              <s>You may adde alſo, that
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              thoſe few who underſtand, ſcorn to give an anſwer to papers ſo
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              trivial and unconcludent; and that upon very good reaſons,
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              cauſe to the intelligent there is no need thereof, and to thoſe that
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              do not underſtand, it is but labour loſt.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The moſt deſerved puniſhment of their demerits would
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              certainly be ſilence, if there were not other reaſons, for which it
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              is haply no leſſe than neceſſary to reſent their timerity: one of
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              which is, that we
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              Italians
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              thereby incur the cenſure of Illiterates,
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              and attract the laughter of Forreigners; and eſpecially to ſuch
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              who are ſeparated from our Religion; and I could ſhew you
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              ny of thoſe of no ſmall eminency, who ſcoff at our
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              Academick,
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              and the many Mathematicians that are in
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              Italie,
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              for ſuffering the </s>
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