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

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              of the cauſe, but findeth no fault with the method of it; that
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              is, denieth that there is any mutation to be ſeen in the altitude of
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              the Pole, but doth not blame the inquiſition, for not being
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              ted to the finding of what is ſought, he thereby ſheweth, that he
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              alſo eſtecemed the Polar altitude varied, or not varied every ſix
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              moneths, to be a good teſtimony to diſprove or inferre the annual
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              motion of the Earth.</s>
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              A ſtronomeys,
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              perhaps, have not
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              known what
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              pearances ought to
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              follow upon the
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              nual motion of the
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              Earth.
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              Copernicus
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              derſtood not ſome
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              things for want of
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              Inſtruments.
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              Tycho
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              and
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              thers argue
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              gainſt the annual
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              motion, from the
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              invariable
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              tion of the Pole.
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              * Chriſiophoius
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              Rothmannus.</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>In truth,
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              Salviatus,
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              my opinion alſo tells me, that the
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              ſame muſt neceſſarily enſue: for I do not think that you will
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              ny me, but that if we walk only 60. miles towards the North,
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              the Pole will riſe unto us a degree higher, and that if we move
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              60. miles farther Northwards, the Pole will be elevated to us a
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              degree more, &c. </s>
              <s>Now if the approaching or receding 60. miles
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              onely, make ſo notable a change in the Polar altitudes, what
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              alteration would follow, if the Earth and we with it, ſhould
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              be tranſported, I will not ſay 60. miles, but 60. thouſand miles
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              that way.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It would follow (if it ſhould proceed in the ſame
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              proportion) that the Pole ſhall be elevated a thouſand degrees.
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              <s>See,
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              Simplicius,
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              what a long rooted opinion can do. </s>
              <s>Yea, by
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              reaſon you have fixed it in your mind for ſo many years, that it
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              is Heaven, that revolveth in twenty four hours, and not the
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              Earth, and that conſequently the Poles of that Revolution are in
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              Heaven, and not in the Terreſtrial Globe, cannot now, in an
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              hours time ſhake off this habituated conceipt, and take up the
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              contrary, fancying to your ſelf, that the Earth is that which
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              veth, only for ſo long time as may ſuffice to conceive of what
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              would follow, thereupon ſhould that lye be a truth. </s>
              <s>If the Earth
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              Simplicius,
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              be that which moveth in its ſelf in twenty four hours,
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              in it are the Poles, in it is the Axis, in it is the Equinoctial, that
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              is, the grand Circle, deſcribed by the point, equidiſtant from the
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              Poles, in it are the inſinite Parallels bigger and leſſer deſcribed by
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              the points of the ſuperficies more and leſſe diſtant from the Poles,
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              in it are all theſe things, and not in the ſtarry Sphere, which, as
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              being immoveable, wants them all, and can only by the
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              tion be conceived to be therein, prolonging the Axis of the Earth
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              ſo far, till that determining, it ſhall mark out two points placed
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              right over our Poles, and the plane of the Equinoctial being
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              tended, it ſhall deſcribe in Heaven a circle like it ſelf. </s>
              <s>Now if the
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              true Axis, the true Poles, the true Equinoctial, do not change
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              in the Earth ſo long as you continue in the ſame place of the
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              Earth, and though the Earth be tranſported, as you do pleaſe,
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              yet you ſhall not change your habitude either to the Poles, or to
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              the circles, or to any other Earthly thing; and this becauſe, that
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              that tranſpoſition being common to you and to all Terreſtrial </s>
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