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

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              now deny their operation upon the the Earth; or elſe that (ſtill
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              contradicting your ſelf) you grant that their appearing very ſmall
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              doth not in the leaſt leſſen their influence; or elſe that (and this
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              ſhall be a more ſincere and modeſt conceſſion) you acknowledg
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              and freely confeſſe, that our paſſing judgment upon their
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              nitudes and diſtances is a vanity, not to ſay preſumption or
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              raſhneſſe.</s>
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              Anſwers to the
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              interrogatories of
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              the ſaid Authour.
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              The Auihour
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              of the
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              ons confound and
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              contradicts
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              ſelfin his
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              gations.
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              Inter ogatories
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              put to the
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              thour of the
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              cluſions, by which
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              the weakneſſe of
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              his is made appear.
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Truth is, I my ſelf did alſo, in reading this paſſage
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              perceive the manifeſt contradiction, in ſaying, that the Stars. (if
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              one may ſo ſpeak) of
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              Copernicus
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              appearing ſo very ſmall, could
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              not operate on the Earth, and not perceiving that he had granted
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              an influence upon the Earth to thoſe of
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              Ptolomy,
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              and his
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              tors, which appear not only very ſmall, but are, for the moſt
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              part, very inviſible.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But I proceed to another conſideration: What is the
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              reaſon, doth he ſay, why the ſtars appear ſo little? </s>
              <s>Is it haply,
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              becauſe they ſeem ſo to us? </s>
              <s>Doth not he know, that this
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              meth from the Inſtrument that we imploy in beholding them, to
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              wit, from our eye? </s>
              <s>And that this is true, by changing
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              ment, we ſhall ſee them bigger and bigger, as much as we will.
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              <s>And who knows but that to the Earth, which beholdeth them
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              without eyes, they may not ſhew very great, and ſuch as in
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              ty they are? </s>
              <s>But it's time that, omitting theſe trifles, we come
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              to things of more moment; and therefore I having already
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              monſtrated theſe two things: Firſt, how far off the Firmament
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              ought to be placed to make, that the grand Orb cauſeth no
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              ter difference than that which the Terreſtrial Orb occaſioneth in
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              the remoteneſſe of the Sun; And next, how likewiſe to make
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              that a ſtar of the Firmament appear to us of the ſame bigneſſe,
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              as now we ſee it, it is not neceſſary to ſuppoſe it bigger than the
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              Sun; I would know whether
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              Tycho,
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              or any of his adherents hath
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              ever attempted to find out, by any means, whether any
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              rance be to be diſcovered in the ſtarry Sphere, upon which one
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              may the more reſolutely deny or admit the annual motion of
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              the Earth.</s>
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              That remote
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              jects appeare ſo
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              ſmall, is the defect
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              of the eye, as
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              demonſtrated.
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I would anſwer for them, that there is not, no nor is
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              there any need there ſhould; ſeeing that it is
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              Copernicus
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              himſelf
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              that ſaith, that no ſuch diverſity is there: and they, arguing
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              ad
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              hominem,
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              admit him the ſame; and upon this aſſumption they
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              demonſtrate the improbability that followeth thereupon,
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              ly, that it would be neceſſary to make the Sphere ſo immenſe,
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              that a fixed ſtar, to appear unto us as great as it now ſeems, ought
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              of neceſſity to be of ſo immenſe a magnitude, as that it would
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              exceed the bigneſſe of the whole grand Orb, a thing, which
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              withſtanding, as they ſay, is altogether incredible.</s>
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