<s>SIMP. No: For the point would be changed, and would be <lb/>
beneath the &longs;tar fir&longs;t ob&longs;erved.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>You are in the right. </s><s>Now like as that which in this <lb/>
example an&longs;wereth to the elevation of the Top-Gallant-Top, is <lb/>
not the &longs;tar, but the point of the Firmament that lyeth in a right <lb/>
line with the eye, and the &longs;aid top of the Ma&longs;t, &longs;o in the ca&longs;e <lb/>
exemplified, that which in the Firmament an&longs;wers to the Pole <lb/>
of the Earth, is not a &longs;tar, or other fixed thing in the Firma <lb/>
ment; but is that point in which the Axis of the Earth continu <lb/>
ed &longs;treight out, till it cometh thither doth determine, which point <lb/>
is not fixed, but obeyeth the mutations that the Pole of the <lb/>
Earth doth make. </s><s>And therefore <emph type="italics"/>Tycho,<emph.end type="italics"/> or who ever el&longs;e that <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg644"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
did alledg this objection, ought to have &longs;aid that upon that <lb/>
&longs;ame motion of the Earth, were it true, one might ob&longs;erve &longs;ome <lb/>
difference in the elevation and depre&longs;&longs;ion (not of the Pole, but) <lb/>
of &longs;ome fixed &longs;tar toward that part which an&longs;wereth to our Pole.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg644"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Upon the annu <lb/>
al motion of the <lb/>
Earth, alteration <lb/>
may en&longs;ue in <lb/>
&longs;ome fixed &longs;tar, <lb/>
not in the Pole.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>I already very well under&longs;tand the mi&longs;take by them <lb/>
committed; but yet therefore (which to me &longs;eems very great) of <lb/>
the argument brought on the contrary is not le&longs;&longs;ened, &longs;uppo <lb/>
&longs;ing relation to be had to the variation of the &longs;tars, and not of <lb/>
the Pole; for if the moving of the Ship but 60. miles, make a <lb/>
fixed &longs;tar ri&longs;e to me one degree, &longs;hall I not find alike, yea and <lb/>
very much greater mutation, if the Ship &longs;hould &longs;ail towards the <lb/>
&longs;aid &longs;tar for &longs;o much &longs;pace as is the Diameter of the Grand <lb/>
Orb, which you affirm to be double the di&longs;tance that is between <lb/>
the Earth and Sun?</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>Herein <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> there is another fallacy, which, <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg645"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
truth is, you under&longs;tand, but do not upon the &longs;udden think of <lb/>
the &longs;ame, but I will try to bring it to your remembrance: Tell <lb/>
me therefore; if when after you have directed the Quadrant to <lb/>
a fixed &longs;tar, and found <emph type="italics"/>v. </s><s>g.<emph.end type="italics"/> its elevation to be 40. degrees, <lb/>
you &longs;hould without &longs;tirring from the place, incline the &longs;ide of <lb/>
the Ouadrant, &longs;o as that the &longs;tar might remain elevated above <lb/>
that direction, would you thereupon &longs;ay that the &longs;tar had acqui <lb/>
red greater elevation?</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg645"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The equivoke of <lb/>
tho&longs;e who believe <lb/>
that in the annual <lb/>
motion great mu <lb/>
tations are to be <lb/>
made about the <lb/>
elevation of a fix <lb/>
ed &longs;tar, is confu <lb/>
ted.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>Certainly no: For the mutation was made in the In <lb/>
&longs;trument and not in the Ob&longs;erver, that did change place, mo <lb/>
ving towards the &longs;ame.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>But if you &longs;ail or walk along the &longs;urface of the Terre <lb/>
&longs;trial Globe, will you &longs;ay that there is no alteration made in the <lb/>
&longs;aid Quadrant, but that the &longs;ame elevarion is &longs;till retained in re <lb/>
&longs;pect of the Heavens, &longs;o long as you your &longs;elf do not incline it, <lb/>
but let it &longs;tand at its fir&longs;t con&longs;titution?</s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>Give me leave to think of it. </s><s>I would &longs;ay without <lb/>
more ado, that it would not retain the &longs;ame, in regard the pro