gre&longs;&longs;e I make is not <emph type="italics"/>in plano,<emph.end type="italics"/> but about the circumference of the
<lb/> Terre&longs;trial Globe, which at every &longs;tep changeth inclination in
<lb/> re&longs;pect to Heaven, and con&longs;equently maketh the &longs;ame change
<lb/> in the In&longs;trument which is erected upon the &longs;ame.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>You &longs;ay very well: And you know withal, that by
<lb/> how much the bigger that circle &longs;hall be upon which you move,
<lb/> &longs;o many more miles you are to walk, to make the &longs;aid &longs;tar to
<lb/> ri&longs;e that &longs;ame degree higher; and that &longs;inally if the motion to­
<lb/> wards the &longs;tar &longs;hould be in a right line, you ought to move yet
<lb/> farther, than if it were about the circumference of never &longs;o
<lb/> great a circle?
<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg646"></arrow.to.target></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg646"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The right line,
<lb/> and circumference
<lb/> of an infinite cir­
<lb/> cle, are the &longs;ame
<lb/> thing.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. True: For in &longs;hort the circumference of an infinite
<lb/> circle, and a right line are the &longs;ame thing.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>But this I do not under&longs;tand, nor as I believe, doth
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/> apprehend the &longs;ame; and it mu&longs;t needs be concealed
<lb/> from us under &longs;ome mi&longs;tery, for we know that <emph type="italics"/>Salviatus<emph.end type="italics"/> never
<lb/> &longs;peaks at random, nor propo&longs;eth any Paradox, which doth not
<lb/> break forth into &longs;ome conceit, not trivial in the lea&longs;t. </s><s>Therefore
<lb/> in due time and place I will put you in mind to demon&longs;trate this,
<lb/> that the right line is the &longs;ame with the circumference of an infi­
<lb/> nite circle, but at pre&longs;ent I am unwilling that we &longs;hould inter­
<lb/> rupt the di&longs;cour&longs;e in hand. </s><s>Returning then to the ca&longs;e, I pro­
<lb/> po&longs;e to the con&longs;ideration of <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> how the acce&longs;&longs;ion and
<lb/> rece&longs;&longs;ion that the Earth makes from the &longs;aid fixed &longs;tar which is
<lb/> neer the Pole can be made as it were by a right line, for &longs;uch is
<lb/> the Diameter of the Grand Orb, &longs;o that the attempting to re­
<lb/> gulate the elevation and depre&longs;&longs;ion of the Polar &longs;tar by the mo­
<lb/> tion along the &longs;aid Diameter, as if it were by the motion about
<lb/> the little circle of the Earth, is a great argument of but little
<lb/> judgment.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMP. </s><s>But we continue &longs;till un&longs;atisfied, in regard that the
<lb/> &longs;aid &longs;mall mutation that &longs;hould be therein, would not be di&longs;cer­
<lb/> ned; and if this be <emph type="italics"/>null,<emph.end type="italics"/> then mu&longs;t the annual motion about
<lb/> the Grand Orb a&longs;cribed to the Earth, be <emph type="italics"/>null<emph.end type="italics"/> al&longs;o.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Here now I give <emph type="italics"/>Salviatus<emph.end type="italics"/> leave to go on, who as I
<lb/> believe will not overpa&longs;&longs;e the elevation and depre&longs;&longs;ion of the
<lb/> Polar &longs;tar or any other of tho&longs;e that are fixed as <emph type="italics"/>null,<emph.end type="italics"/> although
<lb/> not di&longs;covered by any one, and affirmed by <emph type="italics"/>Copernicus<emph.end type="italics"/> him&longs;elf
<lb/> to be, I will not &longs;ay <emph type="italics"/>null,<emph.end type="italics"/> but unob&longs;ervable by rea&longs;on of its
<lb/> minuity.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>I have already &longs;aid above, that I do not think that </s></p>
<p type="main"><s><arrow.to.target n="marg647"></arrow.to.target>
<lb/> any one did ever &longs;et him&longs;elf to ob&longs;erve, whether in different times
<lb/> of the year there is any mutation to be &longs;een in the fixed &longs;tars, that
<lb/> may have a dependance on the annual motion of the Earth, and
<lb/> added withal, that I doubted lea&longs;t haply &longs;ome might never have
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