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

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              aſſignes a reaſon of the continual motion of the Eaſtern Winde,
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              and alſo of a like motion in the Water. </s>
              <s>In the ſecond, It would
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              draw from the ſame Sourſe the cauſe of the Ebbing and Flowing.
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              <s>The firſt part hath (as I have ſaid) ſome appearance of
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              lity, but yet extreamly leſs then that which we take from the
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              Terreſtrial motion. </s>
              <s>The ſecond is not onely wholly improbable,
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              but altogether impoſſible and falſe. </s>
              <s>And coming to the firſt,
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              whereas it is ſaid that the Concave of the Moon carrieth about
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              the element of Fire, and the whole Air, even to the tops of the
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              higher Mountains. </s>
              <s>I anſwer firſt, that it is dubious whether
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              there be any element of Fire: But ſuppoſe there be, it is much
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              doubted of the Orbe of the Moon, as alſo of all the reſt; that is,
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              Whether there be any ſuch ſolid bodies and vaſt, or elſs, Whether
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              beyond the Air there be extended a continuate expanſion of a
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              ſubſtance of much more tenuity and purity than our Air, up and
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              down which the Planets go wandring, as now at laſt a good part
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              of thoſe very Phyloſophers begin to think: But be it in this or in
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              that manner, there is no reaſon for which the Fire, by a ſimple
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              contract to a ſuperficies, which you your ſelf grant to be ſmooth
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              and terſe, ſhould be according to its whole depth carried round in
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              a motion different from its natural inclination; as hath been
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              fuſely proved, and with ſenſible reaſons demonſtrated by^{+}
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              Il Sag-
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              giatore
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              : Beſides the other improbability of the ſaid motions
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              transfuſing it ſelf from the ſubtileſt Fire throughout the Air, much
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              more denſe; and from that alſo again to the Water. </s>
              <s>But that
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              a body of rugged and mountainous ſurface, by revolving in it
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              ſelf, ſhould carry with it the Air contiguous to it, and againſt
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              which its promontaries beat, is not onely probable but neceſſary,
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              and experience thereof may be daily ſeen; though without
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              ing it, I believe that there is no judgement that doubts thereof.
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              <s>As to the other part, ſuppoſing that the motion of Heaven did
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              carry round the Air, and alſo the Water; yet would that motion
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              for all that have nothing to do with the Ebbing and Flowing.
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              <s>For being that from one onely and uniform cauſe, there can
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              low but one ſole and uniform effect; that which ſhould be
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              vered in the Water, would be a continuate and uniform courſe
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              from Eaſt to Weſt; and in that a Sea onely, which running
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              paſs environeth the whole Globe. </s>
              <s>But in determinate Seas, ſuch
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              as is the Mediterrane ſhut up in the Eaſt, there could be no ſuch
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              motion. </s>
              <s>For if its Water might be driven by the courſe of
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              Heaven towards the Weſt, it would have been dry many ages
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              ſince: Beſides that our Water runneth not onely towards the
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              Weſt, But returneth backwards towards the Eaſt, and that in
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              dinal Periods: And whereas you ſay by the example of Rivers,
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              that though the courſe of the Sea were Originally that onely </s>
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