the angle towards the circumference &longs;omething acute. </s><s>But wholly
<lb/> to free this Authour from the&longs;e unhappy lies, let him know, (in re­
<lb/> gard it appears that he is not very skilful in the u&longs;e of A&longs;tronomi­
<lb/> call In&longs;truments) that in the &longs;ides of the Sextant or Quadrant
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<lb/> there are placed two ^{*} Sights, one in the centre, and the other at
<lb/> the other at the oppo&longs;ite end, which are rai&longs;ed an inch or more a­
<lb/> bove the plane of the Rule; and through the tops of tho&longs;e &longs;ights
<lb/> the ray of the eye is made to pa&longs;&longs;e, which eye likewi&longs;e is held an
<lb/> hands breadth or two, or it may be more, from the In&longs;trument; &longs;o
<lb/> that neither the pupil, nor any bone of the cheek, nor of the whole
<lb/> body toucheth or &longs;tayeth it &longs;elf upon the In&longs;trument, nor much
<lb/> le&longs;&longs;e is the In&longs;trument upheld or mounted in the armes, e&longs;pecially
<lb/> if it be one of tho&longs;e great ones, as is u&longs;ual, which weighing tens,
<lb/> hundreds, and al&longs;o thou&longs;ands of pounds, are placed upon very
<lb/> &longs;trong feet or frames: &longs;o that the whole objection vani&longs;heth.
<lb/> </s><s>The&longs;e are the &longs;ubterfuges of this Authour, which, though they were
<lb/> all of &longs;teel, would not &longs;ecure him the hundredth part of a minute;
<lb/> and with the&longs;e he conceits to make us believe, that he hath com­
<lb/> pen&longs;ated that difference, which importeth more than an hundred
<lb/> minutes; I mean, that of the not ob&longs;erving a notable difference
<lb/> in the di&longs;tances between one of the fixed &longs;tars, and the new &longs;tar in
<lb/> in any of their circulations; which, had it been neer to the Moon,
<lb/> it ought to have been very con&longs;picuous to the meer &longs;ight, without
<lb/> any In&longs;trument, e&longs;pecially comparing it with the eleventh of <emph type="italics"/>Ca&longs;­
<lb/> &longs;iopeia,<emph.end type="italics"/> its neighbour, within 1 <emph type="italics"/>gr. </s><s>30 m.<emph.end type="italics"/> which ought to have va­
<lb/> ried from it more than two diameters of the moon, as the more
<lb/> intelligent A&longs;tronomers of t' o&longs;e times do well note.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Methinks I &longs;ee that unfortunate Husbandman, who af­
<lb/> ter all his expected crops, have been beaten down and de&longs;troyed by
<lb/> a &longs;torm, goeth up and down with a langui&longs;hing and down-ca&longs;t
<lb/> look, gleaning up every &longs;mall ear that would not &longs;uffice to keep a
<lb/> chicken alive one &longs;ole day.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. Truly, this Authour came out too &longs;lenderly provided
<lb/> with armes again&longs;t the a&longs;&longs;ailants of the Heavens inalterability, and
<lb/> with too brittle a chain attempted to pull down the new &longs;tar of
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Ca&longs;&longs;iopeia<emph.end type="italics"/> from the highe&longs;t Regions, to the&longs;e &longs;o low and elementa­
<lb/> ry. </s><s>And for that I think that we have &longs;ufficiently demon&longs;trated
<lb/> the va&longs;t difference that is between the arguments of tho&longs;e A&longs;tro­
<lb/> nomers, and of this their Antagoni&longs;t, it will be convenient that we
<lb/> leave this particular, and return to our principal matter; in which
<lb/> there pre&longs;ents it &longs;elf to our con&longs;ideration the annual motion com­
<lb/> monly a&longs;cribed to the Sun, but by <emph type="italics"/>Aristarchus Samius<emph.end type="italics"/> fir&longs;t of all,
<lb/> and after by <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus<emph.end type="italics"/> taken from the Sun, and transferred upon
<lb/> the Earth; again&longs;t which Hypothe&longs;is, methinks I &longs;ee <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/> to
<lb/> come &longs;trongly provided, and particularly with the &longs;word and
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