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

List of thumbnails

< >
181
181 		182
182
183
183 		184
184
185
185 		186
186
187
187 		188
188
189
189 		190
190
< >
page |< < of 701 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <p type="main">
              <s>
                <pb xlink:href="040/01/286.jpg" pagenum="266"/>
              cally, by this ſhort aſſumption, that I have made of all the
                <lb/>
              nations, and of part of the workings pretermitted by the Author,
                <lb/>
              which I have calculated upon this ſame paper.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>You muſt then from yeſterday, till now, which yet is
                <lb/>
              not above eighteen hours, have done nothing but compute,
                <lb/>
              out taking either food or ſleep.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I have refreſhed my ſelf both thoſe wayes; but truth is,
                <lb/>
              make theſe ſupputations with great brevity; and, if I may ſpeak
                <lb/>
              the truth, I have much admired, that this Author goeth ſo farre
                <lb/>
              bout, and introduceth ſo many computations no wiſe neceſsary to
                <lb/>
              the queſtion in diſpute. </s>
              <s>And for a full knowledge of this, and
                <lb/>
              ſo to the end it may ſoon be ſeen, how that from the obſervations
                <lb/>
              of the Aſtronomers, whereof this Author makes uſe, it is more
                <lb/>
              bably gathered, that the new ſtar might have been above the
                <lb/>
              Moon, and alſo above all the Planets, yea amongſt the fixed ſtars,
                <lb/>
              and yet higher ſtill than they, I have tranſcribed upon this paper
                <lb/>
              all the obſervations ſet down by the ſaid Authour, which were
                <lb/>
              made by thirteen Aſtronomers, wherein are noted the Polar
                <lb/>
              tude, and the altitudes of the ſtar in the meridian, aſwell the
                <lb/>
              leſſer under the Pole, as the greater and higher, and they are
                <lb/>
                <lb/>
                <arrow.to.target n="table2"/>
                <lb/>
                <arrow.to.target n="table3"/>
              </s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>
Impressum