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

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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>But this ſeemeth to me a very lame evaſion; for the
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              verſe party may with as much reaſon reply, that thoſe are
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              ous wherewith he collecteth the ſtar to have been in the
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              tary Region.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Oh
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              Simplicius,
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              if I could but make you comprehend
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              the craft, though no great craftineſſe of this Author, I ſhould
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              make you to wonder, and alſo to be angry to ſee how that he
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              palliating his ſagacity with the vail of the ſimplicity of your ſelf;
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              and the reſt of meer Philoſophers, would inſinuate himſelf into
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              your good opinion, by tickling your cars, and ſwelling your
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              bition, pretending to have convinced and ſilenced theſe petty
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              Aſtronomers, who went about to aſſault the impregnable
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              rability of the
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              Peripatetick
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              Heaven, and which is more, to have
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              foild and conquered them with their own arms. </s>
              <s>I will try with all
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              my ability to do the ſame; and in the mean time let
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              Sagredus
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              take it in good part, if
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              Simplicius
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              and I try his patience, perhaps
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              a little too much, whilſt that with a ſuperfluous circumlocution
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              (ſuperfluous I ſay to his moſt nimble apprehenſion) I go about to
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              make out a thing, which it is not convenient ſhould be hid and
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              unknown unto him.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I ſhall not onely without wearineſſe, but alſo with
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              much delight hearken to your diſcourſes; and ſo ought all
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              tetick
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              Philoſophers, to the end they may know how much they
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              are oblieged to this their Protector.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Tell me,
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              Simplicius,
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              whether you do well comprehend,
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              how, the new ſtar being placed in the meridian circle yonder
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              wards the North, the ſame to one that from the South ſhould
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              go towards the North, would ſeem to riſe higher and higher
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              bove the Horizon, as much as the Pole, although it ſhould have
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              been ſcituate amongſt the fixed ſtars; but, that in caſe it were
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              conſiderably lower, that is nearer to the Earth, it would appear
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              to aſcend more than the ſaid pole, and ſtill more by how much
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              its vicinity was greater?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I think that I do very well conceive the ſame; in
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              ken whereof I will try if I can make a mathematical Scheme of
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              it, and in this great circle
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              [in Fig. </s>
              <s>1. of this Dialogue.]
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              I will
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              marke the pole P; and in theſe two lower circles I will note two
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              ſtars beheld from one place on the Earth, which let be A; and
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              let the two ſtars be theſe B and C, beheld in the ſame line A B C,
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              which line I prolong till it meet with a fixed ſtar in D. </s>
              <s>And then
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              walking along the Earth, till I come to the term E, the two
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              ſtars will appear to me ſeparated from the fixed ſtar D, and
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              vanced neerer to the pole P, and the lower ſtar B more, which
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              will appear to me in G, and the ſtar C leſſe, which will ap
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              pear to me in F, but the fixed ſtar D will have kept the ſame
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              diſtance from the Pole.</s>
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