bear It self up from the brims So may 't be sayen The lowlier man the larger graces doth obtain 40 But now to answer to the last objection T is not impossible one thing to move Contrary wayes which by a fit retection I strongly will evince and clearly prove Take but the pains higher for to remove A clock with hanging plummet It goes down At that same time you heave it high above Its former place Thus fairly have we won The field ' gainst stupid sense that reason fain would drown 41 Now let 's go on we have well cleard the way More plainly prove this seeming paradox And make this truth shine brighter then midday Neglect dull sconses mowes and idle mocks O constant hearts as stark as Thracian rocks Well grounded in grave ignorance that scorn Reasons sly force its light slight subtile strokes Sing we to these wast hills dern deaf forlorn Or to the cheerfull children of the quick-ey'd Morn 42 To you we sing that live in purer light Escap'd the thraldome of down-drooping sense Whose nimble spirit and clear piercing sight Can easly judge of every conference Withouten prejudice with patience Can weigh the moments of each reason brought While others in tempestuous vehemence Blow all away with bitter blasts Untought In subtilties they shew themselves in jangling stout 43 I have the barking of bold sense confuted It s clamorous tongue thus being consopite With reasons easie shall I be well suited To show that Pâ—thagore's position's right Copernicks or whosever dogma't hight The first is that that 's wisely signifi'd By Moses Maymons son a learned wight Who saith each good Astronomer is ty'd To lessen the heavens motions vainly multiply'd 44 And the foul botches of false feigned Orbs Whose uselesse number reason must restrain That oft the loose luxuriant phansie curbs And in just bounds doth warily contain To use more means then needs is all in vain Why then O busie sonnes of Prolemee Do you that vast star-bearing sphere constrain To hurl about with such celerity When th' earth may move without such strange velocity 45 What needlesse phansy's this that that huge sphere In one short moment must thus whirl around That it must fly six hundred thousand sheere Of Germane miles If that will not confound For pomp adde fourty thousand more that ' bound Three thousand more if it were requisite You might annex and more if they have found The measure right when as the earth 's slow flight One sixteenth of a mile her scarcely doth transmit 46 But if this All be liquid pervious One fine Ethereall which reason right Will soon admit for 't is ridiculous Thus for to stud the heaven with nails bright The stars in fluid sky will standen tight As men do feigne the earth in the soft aire To be unmov'd How will proportion fit So vast a difference there doth appear Of motions in those stars that the same bignesse bear 47 Besides that difficulty will remain Of unconceivable swift motion In the Equinoctiall stars where some contain This earthy globes mighty dimension Ten thousand times twise told They hurry on With the same swiftnesse I set down before And with more pains A globes extension The bigger that it grows groweth still more Nigh to a flat fac'd figure and finds resistance fore 48 But now that all the heavens be liquid hence I 'll fetch an argument Those higher stars They may as well in water hang suspense As do the Planets Venus orb debars Not Mars nor enters he with knocks and jars The soft fiâ—e yielding Aether gives admission So gentle Venus to Mercurius dares Descend and finds an easie intromission Casts ope that azuâ— curtain by a swift discission 49 That famous star nail'd down in Cassiopee How was it hammer'd in your solid sky What pinsers pull'd it out again that we No longer see it whither did it fly Astronomers say 't was at least as high As the eighth sphere It gave no parallax No more then those light lamps that there we spy But prejudice before her self she 'll tax Of holy writ the heavens she 'll make a nose of wax 50 What man will now that 's not vertiginous Hurrie about his head these severall lights So mighty vast with so voracious And rapid course whirling them day and night About the earth when the earths motion might Save that so monstrous labour with lesse pains Even infinitely lesse But thoughts empight Once in the mind do so possesse the brains That hard it is â—o wash out those deep ancient stains 51 Two things there be whose reason 's nothing clear Those cool continuall breathings of East wind Under the line the next high Comets are In which Philosophers three motions find Concerning which men hither to are blind That have not mov'd the earth unto their aid Diurnall and an annuall course they have mind Like to the sunnes beside by what they 're sway'd To North or South This myst'ry's easly thus display'd 52 The Ecliptick course and that diurnall moving Is but apparent as the sunnes not true But that the earth doth move that still wants proving You 'll say Then if you will these Comets shew One proof for her two motions Whence issue Those meteors turnings what shall hale them on And guide their steps that in proportion due They dance Sols measures what occasion Or fruit can be of that strange double motion 53 Nought but the Earths circumvolution Doth cause this sight and but in outward show This sight of double Sunlike motion Seen in the Comets For the winds that blow Under the Aequinoctiall who doth know Any other cause that still they breathe from th' East That constant feat from whence else can it flow Save from the Earths swift hurring from the West Mid part is strongliest rouz'd the Poles do sleep in rest 54 Wherefore men under th' Aequinoctiall Where the earths course most rapid is and swift Sensibly 're dash'd ' gainst that Aereall Pure liquid essence That clear aire is left Not snatch'd away so fast not quite bereft Of its own Nature nor like th' other skie Unmoved quite but slowpac'd is yeleft And driven close together sensibly So feel we that fine aire that seems from East to flie 55 Those parts be in farre greater puritie Devoid of earthy vapours Thence it is They 're not so easly turn'd by sympathie The air there having lesse of earthinesse So that they move not with one speedinesse The earth and it Yet curious men have fun Something like this even in the mid-land Seas Ships foure times sooner the same stages run When Westward they do flie then when they there begun 56 But that disgracement of Philosophie From flux and reflux of the Ocean main Their monethly and yearly change this Theorie Might take 't away and shew the causes plain Some parts of th' Earth do much more swiftnesse gain When as their course goes whirling on one way With th' annuall motion which must needs constrain The
where else as well as at A but the point G is onely at G or if it be at L it is onely then at L and not at G nor any where else therefore A though in respect of the Universall orders of Beings which flow from him may be the Centre of a Circle yet in respect that these orders fall short of his large Ubiquity some of them at least all of his perfection and excellency and the last reall efflux is contracted after a manner to a mere mathematicall point for such is the nature of the Orb G or corporeall substance as I have intimated For this reason I say may A rightly be called the largest Basis of the Cone whose Diametre is IM or NL as the descent of these Degrees and Beings from Ahad or Atove may fitly resemble a Conicall figure whose Cuspis is G. And here I may seasonably appeal unto the apprehensions of men whether the divine fecundity A flow'd out per saltum and produced onely the Orb G or whether there being a possibility of more excellent intermediate Orbs I will not stand upon this number I have assigned he did not produce BCD c. And if he produced G onely whether that Orb G be not either an arbitrarious or naturall efflux from A. i.e. dependeth on him as closely and intimately as a Ray doth on the Sun And if so why the nature of Atove should be lesse fruitfull then the imaginations of men who can in reason and distinct notion place severall Orbs betwixt A and G. Or why the free will of Atove or Ahad should be lesse bountifull then the minds of well meaning men who if it were in their power as it is in the arbitrarious power of Ahad it clashing with no other good attribute would fill up that empty gulf betwixt A and G. Wherefore as farre as free reason and authority of Platonisme will reach the mystery of the Cone will hold good though my drift at this time was rather to explane it then confirm it But if any should be so adventrous as to deny such an Ubiquity as I have described yet in some sort this adumbration of the Cone will still hold good For there will be a latitude and contraction of power if not of presence And this will be ground enough for this expression But it is to be noted that if we forsake this apprehension of the omnipoâ—ency of Ahad God and all things else will prove mere bodies And then must God if he can make himself up in severall parcells and pieces And God administring the affairs of the Earth will scarce know what God doth in Saturn or at least many millions of miles distant which conceit seems to me farre below the light of Nature and improv'd Reason But to conceive God not onely a body but a body devoid of life sense and understanding is so dark and melancholick a phansie that I professe I think I could with far lesse pain and reluctancy suffer my body to be buried alive in the cold Earth then so stark and stupid conceit to entombe my soul STANZ 85. Besides the Conflux and Congeries Of lesser Lights a double augmentation Emplies and 'twixt them both a lessening coarctation The difficulty that their opinion is entangled with that hold the Comets to be nothing but a conflux of lesser stars is this That they must then seem first bigger then lesser then bigger again which will evidently appear in the following Scheme Circle I. But afterward this light will be lesse and lesse till they come to the Centre A where it will be least of all they coming there closest of all one to another But then they holding on stil in their severall Arks they will passe by one another and the Comet will grow bigger and bigger till they have reached the Circle I again where the Comet is as big as at the biggest before But then disjoyning themselves more wide one from another their severall Circles so carrying them they cease to be seen of us This would be the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a Comet if it did consist of a conflux of Starres But sith there is no such thing observed in Comets it is very probable they arise not from this cause Notes upon The Philosophers Devotion Nimbly they hold on their way Shaping out their Night and Day Summer Winter Autumn Spring Their inclined Axes bring TO shew how Day and Night VVinter and Summer arise from Copernicus his Hypothesis will not onely explane these verses but exceedingly set out the fitnesse and genuinenesse of the Hypothesis it self VVhich I will therefore do out of Galilaeo for the satisfaction of the unprejudiced and ingenuous Reader Let the Circle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be the Ecliptick where by the way we may take notice that when the Earth is in the sign 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sun will appear in the opposite sign 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And so while the Earth doth really passe through the Signes the sunne seems to passe through the Signs opposite to those the Earth is really passing through whence this annuall motion through the Zodiack has been ascribed unto him Let now the centre of the Earth be plac'd in the point of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let the Poles and Axis of the earth be AB inclining upon the Diametre of Capricorn and Cancer 23 degrees and an half VVe must also suppose this inclination immutable the upper pole A to be the North pole the south-South-pole B. Now imagine the Earth turnd round on her Axis in 24 houres from West to East then will every point in the semicircle ADB describe a parallel Circle We 'll for the present take notice onely of that great circle CD and two other remov'd from this 23. gr and an half viz. EF. and GN the one above the other below and lastly two other furthermost circles IK and LM equidistant from the Poles AB Furthermore we are to understand that while the Earth moves on that her Axis keeps not onely the same inclination upon the Plane of the Ecliptick but also one constant direction toward the same part of the Universe or Firmament remaining alway parallel to it self Now this immutability of inclination and steddy direction of her Axis presupposed place the Earth also in the first points of Aries Cancer and Libra according as you see in the present Scheme VVe will go thorough all the foure figures and first that in Capricorn In which because the Axis AB declines from a perpendicular upon the Diametre of Capricorne and Cancer 23. grad and an half towards the Sun O and the Ark AI is 23. grad and an half the Sun enlightning an Hemisphere of the Earth divided from the dark Hemisphere by the Circle KL which Galilaeo calls Terminator lucis this Terminator lucis KL must divide CD as being a great circle into equall parts but all the
stedfast stand as it appear'th From the unshaken buildings she so safely bear'th 23 If she should move about then would she sling From of her self those fair extructed loads Of carved stone The air aloud would sing With brushing trees Beasts in their dark aboads Would brained be by their own caves th' earth strowd With strange destruction All would shatter'd lie In broken shivers What mad frantick mood Doth thus invade wary Philosophy That it so dotes on such a furious falsitie 24 But still more subt'ly this cause to pursue The clouds would alwayes seem to rise from th' East Which sense and oft-experience proves untrue They rise from all the quarters South North West From every part as Aeolus thinketh best Again the Earths sad stupid gravity Unfit for motion shows her quiet rest Lastly an arrow shot unto the sky Would not return unto his foot that let it fly 25 Adde unto these that contrariety Of motion when as the self same things At the same time do back and forward hie As when for speed the rider fiercely dings His horse with iron heel layes the loose strings Upon his neck westward they swiftly scoure When as the Earth finishing her dayly rings Doth Eastward make with all her might and power She quite hath run her stage at end of twice twelve houres 26 These and like phansies do so strongly tye The slower mind to aged Ptolemee That shamefull madnesse 't were for to deny So plain a truth as they deem this to be But yet alas if they could standen free From prejudice and heavie swaying sense That dims our reason that it cannot see What 's the pure truth enough in just defense Of Pythagore we find though with small diligence 27 One single truth concerning unity Of sprights and bodies and how on Form may Inact a various Corporeity Keep 't up together and her might display Through all the parts make 't constantly obey The powerfull dictates of its centrall spright Which being one can variously play This lore if we but once had learnd aright All what was brought afore would vanish at first sight 28 For that Magnetick might doth so combine Earth Water Air into one animate Whose soul or life so sweetly 't doth incline So surely easly as none can relate But he that 's exercis'd in every state Of moving life What Can the plastick spright So variously his branching stock dilate Downward to hell upward to heaven bright And strangely figur'd leaves and flowers send into sight 29 Can one poore single Centre do all this In a base weed that suddenly decayes And shall not the earths life that is transmisse Through sea and air and with its potent rayes Informs all this all this on that life stayes Shall 't not obtain the like variety Of inward ruling motion Your minds raise O sluggish men single centrality You 'l find shall do what ere 's admit by phantasie 30 Now see if this clear apprehension Will not with case repell each argument Which we rehears'd with an intention For to refute The earths swift movement Because 't is naturall not violent Will never shatter buildings With straight line It binds down strongly each partic'larment Of every edifice All stones incline Unto that Centre this doth stoutly all combine 31 Nor is lesse naturall that circular motion Then this which each part to the centre drives So every stone on earth with one commotion Goes round and yet withall right stifly strives To reach the centre though it never dives So deep Who then so blind but plainly sees How for our safety Nature well contrives Binding all close with down-propensities But now we 'll answer make to the loud-singing trees 32 Walls Towers Trees would stir up a strange noise If th' air stood still while the earth is hurled round As doth the switch oft shak'd by idle boyes That please themselves in varying of the sound But this objection we with reason sound Have well prevented while we plainly taught Earth Water Air in one to be fast bound By one spermatick spright which easly raught To each part Earth Sea Air so powerfully hath it caught 33 All these as one round entire body move Upon their common Poles that difficulty Of stirring sounds so clearly we remove That of the clouds with like facility We straight shall chace away In th' air they ly And whirl about with it and when some wind With violence afore him makes them fly Then in them double motion we find Eastward they move and whither by these blasts they 're inclin'd 34 What they pretend of the Earths gravity Is nought but a long taken up conceit A stone that downward to the earth doth hy Is not more heavie then dry straws that jet Up to a ring made of black shining jeat Each thing doth tend to the loud-calling might Of sympathy So 't is a misconceit That deems the earth the onely heavie weight They ken not the strange power of the strong centrall spright 35 Were there a shiver cut from off the Moon And cast quite off from that round entire masse Would 't fall into our mouths No it would soon Make back to th' centre from whence forc'd it was The same in Mars and Sol would come to passe And all the stars that have their proper centres So gravity is nought but close to presse Unto one Magick point there near to enter Each sympathetick part doth boldly it adventure 36 Thus in each starry globe all parts may tend Unto one point and mean time turn around Nor doth that sway its circling ought offend These motions do not at all confound One th' others course The Earth's not heavy found But from that strong down-pulling centrall sway Which hinders not but that it may turn round Sith that it moves not a contrary way Which answre I will bend against the fifth assay 37 An arrow shot into the empty air Which straight returning to the bowmans foot The Earths stability must proven clear Thus these bad archers do at random shoot Whose easie errour I do thus confute The arrow hath one spirit with this sphere Forc'd upward turns with it mov'd by the root Of naturall motion So when back't doth bear It self still Eastward turns with motions circular 38 So 't is no wonder when it hath descended It falleth back to th' place from whence it flew Sith all this while its circular course hath bended Toward the East and in proportion due That arcuall Eastern motion did pursue Nearer the earth the slower it must go These Arks be lesse but in the heavens blew Those Arks increase it must not be so slow Thus must it needs return unto its idle bow 39 Nor ought we wonder that it doth conform Its motions to the circles of the aire Sith water in a wooden bucket born Doth sit it self unto each periphere By hight or depth as you shall change the sphere So lowly set more water 't will contain ' Cause its round tumour higher then doth