Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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the Solar ſpots? </
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little care to make them generated under or above the Moon;
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nor did I ever put much ſtreſſe on the loquacity of
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Tycho
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am I hard to believe that their matter is Elementary, and that
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they may elevate (ſublimate) themſelves at their pleaſure,
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out meeting with any obſtacle from the impenetrability of the
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Heaven, which I hold to be far more thin, yielding,
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and ſubtil than our Air; and as to the calculations of the
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rallaxes, firſt, the uncertainty whether Comets are ſubject to
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ſuch accidents, and next, the inconſtancy of the obſervations,
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upon which the computations are made, make me equally
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pect both thoſe opinions: and the rather, for that I ſee him
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ſometimes ſtretch to his purpoſe, or elſe
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reject thoſe obſervations which interfere with his deſign.</
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Anti-Tycho
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ſteth Aſtronomical
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obſervations to his
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extricates himſelf
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finely in three or four words; ſaying, That thoſe
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dern new Stars are no certain parts of the Cœleſtial bodies, and
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that the adverſaries, if they will prove alteration and
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tion in thoſe ſuperior bodies, muſt ſhew ſome mutations that
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have been made in the Stars deſcribed ſo many ages paſt, of
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which there is no doubt but that they be Cœleſtial bodies,
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which they can never be able to do: Next, as to thoſe
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ters which ſome affirm, to generate and diſſipate in the face of
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the Sun, he makes no mention thereof; wherefore I conclude,
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that he believed them fictious, or the illuſions of the Tube, or
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at moſt, ſome petty effecs cauſed by the Air, and in brief, any
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thing rather than matters Cœleſtial.</
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Simplicius,
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what anſwer could you give to
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the oppoſition of theſe importunate ſpots which are ſtarted up
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to diſturb the Heavens, and more than that, the
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Champion of it, have found ſome reply or ſolution for the
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ſame, of which you ought not to deprive us.</
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Venus
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Mervury,
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revolve about the Sun, and in paſſing
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der it, repreſent themſelves to us obſcure; and for that they
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are many, they oft happen to aggregate their parts together,
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and afterwards ſeperate again. </
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aerial impreſſions; others, the illuſions of the chryſtals; and
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thers, other things: But I incline to think, yea am verily
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ſwaded, That they are an aggregate of many ſeveral opacous
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bodies, as it were caſually concurrent among themſelves. </
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therefore we often ſee, that in one of thoſe ſpots one may
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number ten or more ſuch ſmall bodies, which are of </
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