point N, and in any other except tho&longs;e two A and B, the &longs;aid <lb/>
&longs;tar &longs;hall no longer be ob&longs;erved in the line A B; but in others. <lb/>
</s><s>So that, if the appearing under &longs;everal lines ought to cau&longs;e <lb/>
apparent mutations, &longs;ome difference mu&longs;t needs appear in <lb/>
this ca&longs;e. </s><s>Nay more, I will &longs;peak it with that Philo&longs;ophical <lb/>
freedom, which ought to be allowed among&longs;t Philo&longs;ophick <lb/>
friends, methinks that you, contradicting your &longs;elf, deny that <lb/>
now, which but even now to our admiration, you proved to be <lb/>
really true, and con&longs;iderable; I mean that which happeneth in <lb/>
the Planets, and particularly in the three &longs;uperiour ones, that <lb/>
being con&longs;tantly in the Ecliptick, or very near unto it, do not <lb/>
onely &longs;hew them&longs;elves one while near unto us, and another <lb/>
while remote, but &longs;o deformed in their regular motions, that <lb/>
they &longs;eem &longs;ometimes immoveable, and &longs;ometimes many de <lb/>
grees retrograde; and all upon no other occa&longs;ion than the an <lb/>
nual motion of the Earth.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg658"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Objections again&longs;t <lb/>
the Earths annual <lb/>
motion taken from <lb/>
the fixed stars <lb/>
placed in the E <lb/>
cliptick.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Though by a thou&longs;and accidents I have been hereto <lb/>
fore a&longs;&longs;ured of the wittine&longs;&longs;e of <emph type="italics"/>Sagredus,<emph.end type="italics"/> yet I had a de&longs;ire by <lb/>
this one experiment more to a&longs;certain me of what I may expect <lb/>
from his ingenuity, and all this for my own intere&longs;t, for in ca&longs;e <lb/>
my Propo&longs;itions &longs;tand but proof again&longs;t the hammer and fur <lb/>
nace of his judgment, I &longs;hall be confident that they will abide <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg659"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
the ^{*} te&longs;t of all Touch-&longs;tones. </s><s>I &longs;ay therefore that I had pur <lb/>
po&longs;ely di&longs;&longs;embled this objection, but yet not with any intent to <lb/>
deceive you, and to put any fal&longs;hood upon you, as it might <lb/>
have happened if the objection by me di&longs;gui&longs;ed, and by you o <lb/>
ver-lookt, had been the &longs;ame in effect as it &longs;eemed to be in ap <lb/>
pearance, that is, really valid and conclu&longs;ive; but it is not &longs;o; <lb/>
nay I rather &longs;u&longs;pect that to try me, you make as if you did not <lb/>
&longs;ee its nullity. </s><s>But I will herein be too hard for you, and force <lb/>
from your tongue, that which you would &longs;o artificially conceal; <lb/>
and therefore tell me, what that thing &longs;hould be, whereby you <lb/>
come to know the &longs;tation and retrogradation of the Planets, <lb/>
which is derived from the annual motion, aud which is &longs;o great, <lb/>
that at lea&longs;t &longs;ome foot-&longs;teps of &longs;uch an effect ought to appear in <lb/>
the &longs;tars of the Ecliptick?</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg659"></margin.target>* Or will prove <lb/>
of good alloy.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>This demand of yours containeth two que&longs;tions, to <lb/>
which it is nece&longs;&longs;ary that I make reply; the fir&longs;t relates to the <lb/>
imputation which you lay upon me of a Di&longs;&longs;embler; the other <lb/>
concerneth that which may appear in the &longs;tars, <emph type="italics"/>&c.<emph.end type="italics"/> As to the <lb/>
fir&longs;t, I will &longs;ay with your permi&longs;&longs;ion, that it is not true, that I <lb/>
have di&longs;&longs;embled my knowing the nullity of that objection; and <lb/>
to a&longs;&longs;ure you of the &longs;ame, I now tell you that I very well under <lb/>
&longs;tand the nullity thereof.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>But yet I do not under&longs;tand how it can be, that you