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

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              buckler of the little Treatiſe of
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              Concluſions,
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              or Diſquiſitions
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              thematical, the oppugnations of which it would be good to
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              gin to produce.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I will, if you ſo pleaſe, reſerve them to the laſt, as thoſe
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              that are of lateſt invention.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It will therefore be neceſſary, that in conformity to the
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              method hitherto obſerved, you do orderly, one by one, propound
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              the arguments, on the contrary, aſwell of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              as of the
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              ther ancients, which ſhall be my task alſo, that ſo nothing may
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              ſcape our ſtrict conſideration and examination; and likewiſe
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              gredus,
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              with the vivacity of his wit, ſhall interpoſe his thoughts, as
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              he ſhall finde himſelf inclined.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I will do it with my wonted freedome; and your
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              mands ſhall oblige you to excuſe me in ſo doing.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>The favour will challenge thanks, and not an excuſe.
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              <s>But now let
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              Simplicius
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              begin to propoſe thoſe doubts which
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              ſwade him from believing that the Earth, in like manner, as the
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              other pianets, may move round about a fixed centre.</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>The firſt and greateſt difficulty is the repugnance and
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              incompatibility that is between being in the centre, and being far
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              from it; for if the Terreſtrial Globe were to move in a year by
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              the circumference of a circle, that is, under the Zodiack, it is
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              poſſible that it ſhould, at the ſame time, be in the centre of the
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              diack; but that the Earth is in the ſaid centre
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              Aristotle, Ptolomy,
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              and others have many wayes proved.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You very well argue, aud there is no queſtion but that
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              one that would make the Earth to move in the circumference of a
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              circle, muſt firſt of neceſſity prove, that it is not in the centre of
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              that ſame circle; it now followeth, that we enquire, whether the
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              Earth be, or be not in that centre, about which, I ſay, that it
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              neth, and you ſay that it is fixed; and before we ſpeak of this, it
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              is likewiſe neceſſary that we declare our ſelves, whether you and I
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              have both the ſame conceit of this centre, or no. </s>
              <s>Therefore tell
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              me, what and where is this your intended centre?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>When I ſpeak of the centre, I mean that of the
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              verſe, that of the World, that of the Starry Sphere.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Although I might very rationally put it in diſpute,
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              ther there be any ſuch centre in nature, or no; being that neither
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              you nor any one elſe hath ever proved, whether the World be
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              nite and figurate, or elſe infinite and interminate; yet nevertheleſs
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              granting you, for the preſent, that it is finite, and of a terminate
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              Spherical Figure, and that thereupon it hath its centre; it will be
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              requiſite to ſee how credible it is that the Earth, and not rather
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              ſome other body, doth poſſeſſe the ſaid centre.</s>
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              It hath not been
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              hitherto proved by
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              any, whether the
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              World be finite or
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              infinite.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>That the world is finite, terminato, and ſpherical,
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              Ari-
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