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

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              Eaſt to Weſt? </s>
              <s>And the annual motion of the Sun through the
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              Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from Weſt to Eaſt? </s>
              <s>How
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              then can you make theſe motions being conferred on the Earth, of
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              contraries to become conſiſtents?</s>
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              <s>SAGR. Certainly,
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              Simplicius
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              hath diſcovered to us the original
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              cauſe of error of this Philoſopher; and in all probability he
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              would have ſaid the very ſame.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Now if it be in our power, let us at leaſt recover
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              Simplicius
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              from this errour, who ſeeing the Stars in their riſing
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              to appear above the Oriental Horizon, will make it no difficult
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              thing to underſtand, that in caſe that motion ſhould not belong </s>
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              to the Stars, it would be neceſſary to confeſſe, that the Horizon,
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              with a contrary motion would go down; and that conſequently
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              the Earth would reoolve in it ſelf a contrary way to that
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              with the Stars ſeem to move, that is from Weſt to Eaſt, which
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              is according to the order of the Signes of the Zodiack. </s>
              <s>As, in the
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              next place, to the other motion, the Sun being fixed in the
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              tre of the Zodiack, and the Earth moveable about its
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              rence, to make the Sun ſeem unto us to move about the ſaid
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              diack, according to the order of the Signes, it is neceſſary, that
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              the E arth move according to the ſame order, to the end that the
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              Sun may ſeem to us to poſſeſſe alwayes that degree in the Zodiack,
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              that is oppoſite to the degree in which we find the Earth; and thus
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              the Earth running,
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              verbi gratia,
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              through
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              Aries,
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              the Sun will
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              appear to run thorow
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              Libra
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              ; and the Earth paſſing thorow the
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              ſigne
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              Taurus,
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              the Sun will paſſe thorow
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              Scorpio,
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              and ſo the
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              Earth going thorow
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              Gemini,
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              the Sun ſeemeth to go thorow
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              gittarius
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              ; but this is moving both the ſame way, that is
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              ing to the order of the ſignes; as alſo was the revolution of the
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              Earth about its own centre.</s>
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              The error of the
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              Antagoniſt is
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              nifeſt, by
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              ring that the
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              nual and diurnal
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              motions belonging
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              to the Earth are
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              both one way, and
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              not contrary.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I underſtand you very well, and know not what to
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              ledge in excuſe of ſo groſſe an error.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And yet,
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              Simplicius,
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              there is one yet worſe then this; and
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              it is, that he makes the Earth move by the diurnal motion about
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              its own centre from Eaſt to Weſt; and perceives not that if this
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              were ſo, the motion of twenty four hours appropriated by him
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              to the Univerſe, would, in our ſeeming, proceed from Weſt to
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              Eaſt; the quite contrary to that which we behold.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Oh ſtrange! Why I, that have ſcarce ſeen the firſt
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              elements of the Sphere, would not, I am confident, have erred
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              ſo horribly.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>Judg now what pains this Antagoniſt may be thought
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              to have taken in the Books of
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              Copernicus,
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              if he abſolutely invert
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              the ſenſe of this grand and principal Hypotheſis, upon which is
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              founded the whole ſumme of thoſe things wherein
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              Copernicus
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              </s>
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