Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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>Mathematical Learning
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(to ſpeak nothing touching the neceſsity & delight thereof) hath bin ſo ſparing
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ly imparted to our Countrymen in their native Engliſh, eſpecially the nobler and ſublimer part,
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that in Compliance with the
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Solicitations
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of ſeveral of my noble and learned Friends, and the
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Incli
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nations
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of ſuch as are Mathematically diſpoſed, more eſpecially thoſe, who either want Time or
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Patience to look into the vulgar and unſtudied Languages, I did adventure upon this Work of Collecting & Tranſ
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lating from amongſt the excellent Pieces that are ſo abounding in the Italian and French Tongues, ſome of thoſe
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that my own obſervation and the intimation of Friends were moſt uſefull and deſired, and with all moſt wanting
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in their Own.
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I was, indeed, at firſt ſeriouſly Conſcious, and am now, by experience, fully convinced how diſproportionate the
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weight of the Enterprize is to the weakneſs of the Vndertaker, but yet the Paſsion I ever had to be ſubſervient to
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my Friends and Compatriots in their Inquiſition after theſe Sublime Studies, and a Patience which I owe to the
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Flegme that is predominant in my Conſtitution, joyned with a nine-years converſence in theſe Languages, as alſo an
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unhappy and long Vacation that the perſecutions of the late Tyrants gave me from more advantagious employ
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ments ſo prevailed with me, that I reſolved to improve even my very Confinement to ſerve thoſe Friends, whom, as
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the Times then ſtood, I could not ſee.
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The Book being for Subject and Deſign intended chiefly for Gentlemen, I have hin as careleſs of uſing a ſtudied
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Pedantry in my Style; as careful in contriving a pleaſant and beautiful Impreſſion. </
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the hazard, and computed the charge of the undertaking, I found it to exceed the ability of a private Purſe, eſpe
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cially of mine, that had bin ſo lately emptied by the hand of violent enemies, and perfidious friends; not to
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make mention here of the Sums that a Loyal Reflexion upon my Princes Affairs had at the ſame time drawn
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from me; and judg'd that the most ſafe, eaſy, and reaſonable way was to invite thoſe Perſons who had appeared
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deſirous of the Book, to be contributary to their own Contentment, by ſubſcribing towards the charge of this Pu
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blication.
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And for the better management of the Work, I joyned to my ſelf a Printer, whoſe Genius having rendered
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him Mathematical, and my overtures of profit having intereſſed his diligence, I was induced to promiſe my ſelf a
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more than common Aſſiſtance from him: and at his door I with reaſon lay all miſcarriages that concerns his
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Profeſſion in the Buſineſs.
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In this Work I found more than ordinary Encouragement from that publick ſpirited Perſon the Reverend and
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Learned Dr.
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Thomas Barlow,
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Provoſt of Queens Colledge Oxford, and
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Margaret
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Profeſſor in that Vniver
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ſity, as alſo from thoſe two able Mathematicians and my Reall Friends Major
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Miles Symner,
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and Mr.
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Robert
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Wood
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of Trinity Colledge
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Dublin,
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and ſome few others whoſe Modeſty hath expreſly enjoin'd me a concealment
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of their Names.
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Well, at length I have got to the end of my firſt Stage; and if I have not rid Poſt, let my excuſe be that my long
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ſtay for my Warrant cauſed me to ſet out late; and being ill mounted, and in a road full of rubbs, I could not with
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any ſafety go faſter; but hope to get it up in the next Stage, for in that I intend to ſhift my Horſes.
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The names of thoſe Authors and Treatices which I judged would moſt grace our Language, and gratify Stu
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dents, are particularly expreſt in the General Title of the two Tomes. </
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ſeverat Pieces: Collections I call them, becauſe they have bin ſo publiſhed, diſperſt, and worn out of Print, that
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they very rarely meet in one hand: and Tranſlations I own them to be, as not pretending to any thing more than
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the diſpoſure and converſion of them: thoſe Tracts only excepted which compoſe the ſecond Part of the ſecond
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Tome.
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The firſt Book which offers it ſelf to your view in this Tome is that ſingular and unimitable Piece of Reaſon
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and Demonſtration the Syſteme of
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Galilco.
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The ſubject of it is a new and Noble port of Aſtronomy, to wit the
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Doctrine and Hypotheſis of the Mobility of the carth and the Stability of the Sun; the Hiſtory whereof I ſhall
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hereafter give you at large in the Life of that famous Man. </
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why theſe Dialogues found ſo various entertainment in Italy (for he cannot but have heard that though they have
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been with all veneration valued, read & applauded by the Iudicious yet they were with much deteſtation perſecuted,
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ſuppreſſed & exploded by the Superſtitious) I am to tell him that our Author having aſſigned his intimate Friends
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Salviati
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and
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Sagredo
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the more ſucceßfull Parts of the Challenger, and Moderater, he made the famous Commen
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tator
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Simplicius
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to perſonate the Peripatetick. </
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Urban
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the
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VIII.
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taking his Ho
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nour to be concern'd as having in his private Capacity bin very poſitive in declaiming against the Samian Philo
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ſophy, and now (as he ſuppoſed) being ill delt with by
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Galilco
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who had ſummed up all his Arguments, and pur
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them into the mouth of
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Simplicius;
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his Holineſs thereupon conceived an implacable Diſpleaſure against our Au
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thor, and thinking no other revenge ſufficient, he employed his Apoſtolical Authority, and deals with the Conſiſtory
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to condemn him and proſcribe his Book as Heretical; proſtituting the Cenſure of the Church to his private revenge.
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Galilco's
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fortune in
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Italy:
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but had I not reaſon to hope that the Engliſh will be more hoſpitable, on the
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account of that Principle which induceth them to be civil to (I ſay not to dote on) Strangers, I ſhould fear to be
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charged with imprudence for appearing an Interpreter to that great Philoſopher. </
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forbear to make any large Exordium concerning him or his Book: & the rather in regard that ſuch kind of Gau
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deries become not the Gravity of the Subject; as alſo knowing how much (coming from me) they must fall ſhort of
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the Merits of it, or him: but principally becauſe I court only perſons of Judgement & Candor, that can diſtinguiſh
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between a Native Beauty, and ſpurious Verniſh. </
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the menaging, than to inſinuate my ability in accompliſhing this ſo arduous a Task, that theſe profound Dialogues
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have bin found ſo uneaſy to Tranſlate, that neither affectation of Novelty could induce the French, nor the
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Tranſlating humour perſwade the Germans to undertake them. </
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upon the Intricacy of this manner of Writing, or upon the ſingular Elegance in the ſtile of
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Galilco,
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or elſe upon the
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