<emph type="italics"/>remotiores, in minori circulo feruntur? [&longs;cilicet:]<emph.end type="italics"/> Why are <lb/>
tho&longs;e near the Æquinoctial carried about in a greater circle, and <lb/>
tho&longs;e which are remote in a le&longs;&longs;er?</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>To imitate the &longs;tarry Sphere, in which tho&longs;e neare&longs;t <lb/>
to the Æquinoctial, move in greater circles, than the more re <lb/>
mote.</s>

<s>SIMP. <emph type="italics"/>Quarè Pila eadem &longs;ub Æquinoctiali tota circa centrum <lb/>
terr æ, ambitu maximo, celeritate incredibili; &longs;ub Polo verò circa <lb/>
centrum proprium, gyro nullo, tarditate &longs;upremâ volveretur? <lb/>
[That is:]<emph.end type="italics"/> Why is the &longs;ame ball under the Æquinoctial wholly <lb/>
turned round the centre of the Earth in the greate&longs;t circumfe <lb/>
rence, with an incredible celerity; but under the Pole about its <lb/>
own centre, in no circuite, but with the ultimate degree of tar <lb/>
dity?</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>To imitate the &longs;tars of the Firmament, that would do <lb/>
the like if they had the diurnal motion.</s>

<s>SIMP. <emph type="italics"/>Quare eadem res, pila v. </s><s>g. </s><s>plumbea, &longs;i &longs;emel terram <lb/>
circuivit, de&longs;cripto circulo maximo, eandem ubique non circum <lb/>
migret &longs;ecundùm circulum maximum, &longs;ed tran&longs;lata extra Æquino <lb/>
ctialem in circulis minoribus agetur? [Which &longs;peaketh thus:]<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
Why doth not the &longs;ame thing, as for example, a ball of lead <lb/>
turn round every where according to the &longs;ame great circle, if once <lb/>
de&longs;cribing a great circle, it hath incompa&longs;&longs;ed the Earth, but being <lb/>
removed from the Æquinoctial, doth move in le&longs;&longs;er circles?</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Becau&longs;e &longs;o would, nay, according to the doctrine of <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Ptolomey,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;o have &longs;ome fixed &longs;tars done, which once were very <lb/>
near the Æquinoctial, and de&longs;cribed very va&longs;t circles, and now that <lb/>
they are farther off, de&longs;cribe le&longs;&longs;er.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>If I could now but keep in mind all the&longs;e fine no <lb/>
tions, I &longs;hould think that I had made a great purcha&longs;e; I mu&longs;t <lb/>
needs intreat you, <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> to lend me this Book, for there can <lb/>
not chu&longs;e but be a &longs;ea of rare and ingenious matters contained in <lb/>
it.</s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>I will pre&longs;ent you with it.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>Not &longs;o, Sir; I would not deprive you of it: but are <lb/>
the Queries yet at an end?</s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>No Sir; hearken therefore. <emph type="italics"/>Si latio circularis gra <lb/>
vibus & levibus e&longs;t naturalis, qualis e&longs;t ea quæ fit &longs;ecundùm line <lb/>
am rectam? </s><s>Nam &longs;i naturalis, quomodo & is motus qui circum est, <lb/>
naturalis e&longs;t, cùm &longs;pecie differat à recto? </s><s>Si violentus, quî fit, ut <lb/>
mi&longs;&longs;ile ignitum &longs;ur&longs;ùm evolans &longs;cintillo&longs;um caput &longs;ur&longs;ùm à terrâ, <lb/>
non autem circum volvatur, &c. [Which take in our idiom:]<emph.end type="italics"/> If <lb/>
a circular lation is natural to heavy and light things, what is that <lb/>
which is made according to a right line? </s><s>For if it be natural, how <lb/>
then is that motion which is about the centre natural, &longs;eeing it