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

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              <s>
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              ſtotle
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              proveth with an hundred
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              <s>
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              The
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              tions of
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              Ariſtotle
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              to Prove that the
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              Vniverſe is finite,
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              are all nullified by
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              denying it to be
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              moveable.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>All which in the end are reduced to one alone, and that
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              one to none at all; for if I deny his aſſumption, to wit, that the
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              Univerſe is moveable, all his demonſtrations come to nothing, for
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              he onely proveth the Univerſe to be finite and terminate, for that
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              it is moveable. </s>
              <s>But that we may not multiply diſputes, let it be
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              granted for once, that the World is finite, ſpherical, and hath
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              its centre. </s>
              <s>And ſeeing that that centre and figure is argued from
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              its mobility, it will, without doubt, be very reaſonable, if from the
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              circular motions of mundane bodies we proceed to the particular
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              inveſtigation of that centres proper place: Nay
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              Ariſtotle
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              himſelf </s>
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              hath argued and determined in the ſame manner, making that
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              ſame to be the centre of the Univerſe about which all the
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              leſtial Spheres revolve, and in which he beleived the Terreſtrial
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              Globe to have been placed. </s>
              <s>Now tell me
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              Simplicius,
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              if
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              Ariſtotle
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              ſhould be conſtrained by evident experience to alter in part this
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              his diſpoſure and order of the Univerſe, and confeſſe himſelf to
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              have been deceived in one of theſe two propoſitions, namely,
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              ther in placing the Earth in the centre, or in ſaying, that the
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              Cœleſtial Spheres do move about that centre, which of the two
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              confeſſions think you would he chooſe?</s>
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              <s>
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              Ariſtotle makes
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              that point to be the
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              centre of the
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              verſe about which
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              all the Celeſtial
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              Spheres do revolve.
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              A queſtion is
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              put, in caſe that
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              if
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              Ariſtotle
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              were
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              forced to receive
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              one of two
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              tions that make
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              gainſt his doctrine,
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              which he would
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              admit.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I believe, that if it ſhould ſo fall out, the
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              ticks.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I do not ask the
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              Peripateticks,
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              I demand of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              for as to thoſe, I know very well what they would reply; they, as
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              obſervant and humble vaſſals of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              would deny all the
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              periments and all the obſervations in the World, nay, would alſo
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              refuſe to ſee them, that they might not be forced to acknowledg
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              them, and would ſay that the World ſtands as
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              Ariſtotle
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              writeth,
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              and not as nature will have it, for depriving them of the ſhield
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              of his Authority, with what do you think they would appear in the
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              field? </s>
              <s>Tell me therefore what you are perſwaded
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              Ariſtotle
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              ſelf would do in the caſe.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>To tell you the truth, I know not how to reſolve
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              which of the two inconveniences is to be eſteemed the leſſer.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Apply not I pray you this term of inconvenience to a
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              thing which poſſibly may of neceſſity be ſo. </s>
              <s>It was an
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              ence to place the Earth in the centre of the Cœleſtial revolutions;
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              but ſeeing you know not to which part he would incline, I
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              ſteeming him to be a man of great judgment, let us examine
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              which of the two choices is the more rational, and that we will
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              hold that
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              Ariſtotle
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              would have received. </s>
              <s>Reaſſuming therefore our
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              diſcourſe from the beginning, we ſuppoſe with the good liking of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              that the World (of the magnitude of which we have
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              no ſenſible notice beyond the fixed ſtars) as being of a ſpherical </s>
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