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

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              tion, may be by us obſerved in the fixed ſtars to be of two
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              kinds: The one is, that of their apparent magnitudes varied,
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              cording as we, tranſported by the Earth, approach or recede
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              from the ſame: The other (which likewiſe dependeth on the
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              ſame acceſſion and reeeſſion) their appearing unto us in the
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              ſame Meridian, one while more elevated, and another while leſſe.
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              <s>Moreover, you tell us (and I underſtand it very well) that the
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              one and other of theſe mutations are not made alike in all the
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              ſtars, but in ſome greater, and in others leſſer, and in others not
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              at all. </s>
              <s>The acceſſion and receſſion whereby the ſame ſtar ought
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              to appear, one while bigger, and another while leſſer, is
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              ble, and almoſt nothing in the ſtars neer unto the pole of the
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              cliptick, but is greateſt in the ſtars placed in the Ecliptick it ſelf,
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              and indifferent in the intermediate: the contrary happens in the
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              other difference, that is, the elevation or depreſſion of the ſtars
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              placed in the Ecliptick is nothing at all, greateſt in thoſe neereſt
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              to the Pole of the ſaid Ecliptick, and indifferent in the
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              diate. </s>
              <s>Beſides, both theſe differences are more ſenſible in the
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              Stars neereſt to us, in the more remote leſſe ſenſible, and in
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              thoſe that are very far diſtant wholly diſappear. </s>
              <s>This is, as to
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              what concerns my ſelf; it remaineth now, as I conceive, that
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              ſomething be ſaid for the ſatisfaction of
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              Simplicius,
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              who, as I
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              believe, will not eaſily be made to over-paſſe thoſe differences,
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              as inſenſible that are derived from a motion of the Earth ſo vaſt,
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              and from a mutation that tranſports the Earth into places twice
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              as far diſtant from us as the Sun.</s>
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              The Epilogue of
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              the
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              Phænomena
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              of the fixed ſtars
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              cauſed by the
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              nual motion of the
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              Earth.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Truth is, to ſpeak freely, I am very loth to confeſſe, that
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              the diſtance of the fixed Stars ought to be ſuch, that in them the
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              fore-mentioned differences ſhould be wholly imperceptible.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Do notthrow your ſelf into abſolute deſpair,
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              cius,
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              for there may perhaps yet ſome qualification be found for
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              your difficulties. </s>
              <s>And firſt, that the apparent magnitude of the
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              ſtars is not ſeen to make any ſenſible alteration, ought not to be
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              judged by you a thing improbable, in regard you ſee the gueſſes
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              of men in this particular to be ſo groſſely erroneous, eſpecially in
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              looking upon ſplendid objects; and you your ſelf beholding
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              v. </s>
              <s>g.
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              a lighted Torch at the diſtance of 200 paces, if it
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              proach nearer to you 3. or 4. yards, do you think that it will
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              ſhew any whit encreaſed in magnitude? </s>
              <s>I for my part ſhould
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              not perceive it certainly, although it ſhould approach 20. or
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              30. yards nearer; nay it hath ſometimes happened that in ſeeing
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              ſuch a light at that diſtance I know not how to reſolve whether
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              it came towards me, or retreated from me, when as it did in
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              reality approach nearer to me. </s>
              <s>But what need I ſpeak of this?
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              <s>If the ſelf ſame acceſſion and receſſion (I ſpeak of a diſtance </s>
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