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

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1cally, by this ſhort aſſumption, that I have made of all the
nations, and of part of the workings pretermitted by the Author,
which I have calculated upon this ſame paper.
SAGR. You muſt then from yeſterday, till now, which yet is
not above eighteen hours, have done nothing but compute,
out taking either food or ſleep.
SALV. I have refreſhed my ſelf both thoſe wayes; but truth is,
make theſe ſupputations with great brevity; and, if I may ſpeak
the truth, I have much admired, that this Author goeth ſo farre
bout, and introduceth ſo many computations no wiſe neceſsary to
the queſtion in diſpute.
And for a full knowledge of this, and
ſo to the end it may ſoon be ſeen, how that from the obſervations
of the Aſtronomers, whereof this Author makes uſe, it is more
bably gathered, that the new ſtar might have been above the
Moon, and alſo above all the Planets, yea amongſt the fixed ſtars,
and yet higher ſtill than they, I have tranſcribed upon this paper
all the obſervations ſet down by the ſaid Authour, which were
made by thirteen Aſtronomers, wherein are noted the Polar
tude, and the altitudes of the ſtar in the meridian, aſwell the
leſſer under the Pole, as the greater and higher, and they are


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