<s>SIMP. </s><s>But this &longs;eemeth to me a very lame eva&longs;ion; for the ad <lb/>
ver&longs;e party may with as much rea&longs;on reply, that tho&longs;e are errone <lb/>
ous wherewith he collecteth the &longs;tar to have been in the Elemen <lb/>
tary Region.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Oh <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> if I could but make you comprehend <lb/>
the craft, though no great craftine&longs;&longs;e of this Author, I &longs;hould <lb/>
make you to wonder, and al&longs;o to be angry to &longs;ee how that he <lb/>
palliating his &longs;agacity with the vail of the &longs;implicity of your &longs;elf; <lb/>
and the re&longs;t of meer Philo&longs;ophers, would in&longs;inuate him&longs;elf into <lb/>
your good opinion, by tickling your cars, and &longs;welling your am <lb/>
bition, pretending to have convinced and &longs;ilenced the&longs;e petty <lb/>
A&longs;tronomers, who went about to a&longs;&longs;ault the impregnable inalte <lb/>
rability of the <emph type="italics"/>Peripatetick<emph.end type="italics"/> Heaven, and which is more, to have <lb/>
foild and conquered them with their own arms. </s><s>I will try with all <lb/>
my ability to do the &longs;ame; and in the mean time let <emph type="italics"/>Sagredus<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
take it in good part, if <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/> and I try his patience, perhaps <lb/>
a little too much, whil&longs;t that with a &longs;uperfluous circumlocution <lb/>
(&longs;uperfluous I &longs;ay to his mo&longs;t nimble apprehen&longs;ion) I go about to <lb/>
make out a thing, which it is not convenient &longs;hould be hid and <lb/>
unknown unto him.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>I &longs;hall not onely without wearine&longs;&longs;e, but al&longs;o with <lb/>
much delight hearken to your di&longs;cour&longs;es; and &longs;o ought all <emph type="italics"/>Peripa <lb/>
tetick<emph.end type="italics"/> Philo&longs;ophers, to the end they may know how much they <lb/>
are oblieged to this their Protector.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Tell me, <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> whether you do well comprehend, <lb/>
how, the new &longs;tar being placed in the meridian circle yonder to <lb/>
wards the North, the &longs;ame to one that from the South &longs;hould <lb/>
go towards the North, would &longs;eem to ri&longs;e higher and higher a <lb/>
bove the Horizon, as much as the Pole, although it &longs;hould have <lb/>
been &longs;cituate among&longs;t the fixed &longs;tars; but, that in ca&longs;e it were <lb/>
con&longs;iderably lower, that is nearer to the Earth, it would appear <lb/>
to a&longs;cend more than the &longs;aid pole, and &longs;till more by how much <lb/>
its vicinity was greater?</s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>I think that I do very well conceive the &longs;ame; in to <lb/>
ken whereof I will try if I can make a mathematical Scheme of <lb/>
it, and in this great circle <emph type="italics"/>[in Fig. </s><s>1. of this Dialogue.]<emph.end type="italics"/> I will <lb/>
marke the pole P; and in the&longs;e two lower circles I will note two <lb/>
&longs;tars beheld from one place on the Earth, which let be A; and <lb/>
let the two &longs;tars be the&longs;e B and C, beheld in the &longs;ame line A B C, <lb/>
which line I prolong till it meet with a fixed &longs;tar in D. </s><s>And then <lb/>
walking along the Earth, till I come to the term E, the two <lb/>
&longs;tars will appear to me &longs;eparated from the fixed &longs;tar D, and ad <lb/>
vanced neerer to the pole P, and the lower &longs;tar B more, which <lb/>
will appear to me in G, and the &longs;tar C le&longs;&longs;e, which will ap <lb/>
pear to me in F, but the fixed &longs;tar D will have kept the &longs;ame <lb/>
di&longs;tance from the Pole.</s>