produceth &longs;undry and divers motions in living creatures. </s><s>And as
<lb/> to the flexures there is no need of them, the motions being of the
<lb/> whole, and not of &longs;ome particular parts; and becau&longs;e they are
<lb/> to be circular, the meer &longs;pherical figure is the mo&longs;t perfect articu­
<lb/> lation or flection that can be de&longs;ired.</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg462"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>It is de&longs;ired to
<lb/> know, by means of
<lb/> what flexures and
<lb/> joynts the<emph.end type="italics"/> Terre­
<lb/> &longs;trial Globe <emph type="italics"/>might
<lb/> move with three
<lb/> diver&longs;e motions.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg463"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>One only princi­
<lb/> ple may cau&longs;e a
<lb/> plurality of moti­
<lb/> ons in the Earth.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMP. </s><s>The mo&longs;t that ought to be granted upon this, would be,
<lb/> that it may hold true in one &longs;ingle motion, but in three different
<lb/> motions, in my opinion, and that of the Author, it is impo&longs;&longs;i­
<lb/> ble; as he going on, pro&longs;ecuting the objection, writes in the fol­
<lb/> lowing words. <emph type="italics"/>Let us &longs;uppo&longs;e, with<emph.end type="italics"/> Copernicus, <emph type="italics"/>that the Earth
<lb/> moveth of its own faculty, and upon an intrin&longs;ick principle from
<lb/> We&longs;t to Ea&longs;t in the plane of the Ecliptick; and again, that it al&longs;o
<lb/> by an intrin&longs;ick principle revolveth about its centre, from Ea&longs;t to
<lb/> We&longs;t; and for a third motion, that it of its own inclination defle­
<lb/> cteth from North to South, and &longs;o back again.<emph.end type="italics"/> It being a conti­
<lb/> nuate body, and not knit together with joints and flections, our
<lb/> fancy and our judgment will never be able to comprehend, that
<lb/> one and the &longs;ame natural and indi&longs;tinct principle, that is, that
<lb/> one and the &longs;ame propen&longs;ion, &longs;hould actuate it at the &longs;ame in&longs;tant
<lb/> with different, and as it were of contrary motions. </s><s>I cannot be­
<lb/> lieve that any one would &longs;ay &longs;uch a thing, unle&longs;&longs;e he had under­
<lb/> took to maintain this po&longs;ition right or wrong.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>Stay a little; and find me out this place in the Book.
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Fingamus modo cum Copernico terram aliqua &longs;uâ vi, & ab indito
<lb/> principio impelli ab Occa&longs;u ad Ortum in Eclipticæ plano; tum rur­
<lb/> &longs;us revolvi ab indito etiam principio, circa &longs;uimet centrum, ab<emph.end type="italics"/>
<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg464"></arrow.to.target>
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Ortu in Occa&longs;um; tertio de&longs;lecti rur&longs;us &longs;u opte nutu à &longs;eptentrio­
<lb/> ne in Au&longs;trum, & vici&longs;&longs;im.<emph.end type="italics"/> I had thought, <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> that
<lb/> that you might have erred in reciting the words of the Au­
<lb/> thor, but now I &longs;ee that he, and that very gro&longs;&longs;ely, decei­
<lb/> veth him&longs;elf; and to my grief, I find that he hath &longs;et him&longs;elf to
<lb/> oppo&longs;e a po&longs;ition, which he hath not well under&longs;tood; for the&longs;e
<lb/> are not the motions which <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus<emph.end type="italics"/> a&longs;&longs;ignes to the Earth.
<lb/> </s><s>Where doth he find that <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus<emph.end type="italics"/> maketh the annual motion
<lb/> by the Ecliptick contrary to the motion about its own centre? </s><s>It
<lb/> mu&longs;t needs be that he never read his Book, which in an hundred
<lb/> places, and in the very fir&longs;t Chapters affirmeth tho&longs;e motions to
<lb/> be both towards the &longs;ame parts, that is from We&longs;t to Ea&longs;t.
<lb/> </s><s>But without others telling him, ought he not of him&longs;elf to com­
<lb/> prehend, that attributing to the Earth the motions that are ta
<lb/> ken, one of them from the Sun, and the other from the <emph type="italics"/>pri­
<lb/> mum wobile,<emph.end type="italics"/> they mu&longs;t of nece&longs;&longs;ity both move one and the &longs;ame
<lb/> way.
<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg465"></arrow.to.target></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg464"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>A gro&longs;&longs;e error
<lb/> of the oppo&longs;er of<emph.end type="italics"/>
<lb/> Copernicus.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMP. </s><s>Take heed that you do not erre your &longs;elf, and <emph type="italics"/>Coperni­
<lb/> cus<emph.end type="italics"/> al&longs;o. </s><s>The Diurnal motion of the <emph type="italics"/>primum mobile,<emph.end type="italics"/> is it not from
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