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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51901	The seventh volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M565DC; ESTC R35023	159,469	386

or match if now they were alive is very late discover'd by the Incomparable Abdel Melec Muli Omar President of the College of Sciences at Fez. The Happy Musu Abu'l Yahyan Professor of Philosophy there first started the Proposal of a Mathematical Experiment And laying Heads together the Primate of Moresco Doctors Father of all the African Alfaqui's living found a true Demonstration in it I have lately receiv'd a Dispatch from that Renowned Prelate with an enclosed Model of this Planetary Machine A Copy of which I send thee drawn by my own Hand It represents the Original to a Point Examine it well and thou wilt find 't is much more regular and exact than any of those Antiquated Schemes and answers all the Questions of Astronomy without the least apparent Blunder Besides it has a perfect Symmetry and Proportion in every Part it makes the World appear a compleat Beauty Whereas the Frame which Tycho Brahe made was all deform'd with wild Unevennesses Nor was the System of Copernicus without a manifest Botch in making the small Orb o' th' Moon alone to interfere with that o' th' Earth Whilst all the other Planets circulate in their own entire and solitary Spheres without an Interloper to disturb ' em Besides he makes the Earth an Atlas to the Moon whilst this poor weary Globe is forc'd in his Opinion to drudge yearly round the Zodiack with the vast Burden of Diana on its Shoulders If it be so it is no wonder that the Earth so often faints and trembles under the mighty Load Henceforth we need not lay the Blame of Earthquakes to Enceladus as if the drowzy snoring Gyant turning his monstrous Bulky Corps from one Side to the other were the Sole Cause of these Convulsions When Mortals reel and stagger as they walk upon the Surface when Trees and Mountains rock as in a Cradle and whole Cities are sometimes swallow'd up No let poor Enceladus sleep on and take what Rest he can in his Infernal Prison There was no Danger of his e'er stirring again after he 'd once been thorowly sowc'd in Lethe's all-benumming Streams Copernicus is onely in the Fault Whene'er we feel these Fatal Heavings of the Globe 't was too unmerciful a Task he impos'd upon it especially in its Old Age. It wou'd have grumbled in its early Days and sturdy Youth had it been thus severely us'd by Orpheus Homer Hermes Trismegistus or any other of the Primitive Sages But now to be thus roughly handl'd by an Upstart Infidel in its declining Years when Three Parts of its Marrow 's decay'd and it s once potent Nerves and Sinews are shrunk its Liver wasted and every Vital dwindling away almost broke its Heart Therefore these African Sages in Duty to their aged Mother the Earth have found a Way to free her from the Burden of the Moon in her decrepid State and yet to make the Sun the Center of the World adjusting at the same Time with accurate Laws and an Unblemish'd Order the Motions Stations and various Postures of the Planets This Happy Revelation in Astronomy is not to be divulg'd in Publick Writings lest some Inquisitive Curious Traveller Ambitious Nazarene or Envious Jew shou'd chance to light upon the Sacred Scheme and boast himself the Inventer of it Let it be onely communicated to Learned Faithful Mussulmans of the First Rank For such Celestial Mysteries ought not to be prostituted to the Vulgar Tell not the little Jasmir Sgire Rugial of it For if thou dost all the Frank Merchants at Aleppo soon shall be made privy to the matchless Secret Be it a perpetual Arcanum in the Breasts of Sublime Men exalted Souls Friends of God and little less than Prophets And be it so till all the Sages of the East and South are first made sensible of it and able to defend it against the vain Attempts of the Vncircumcised Nation Then let it be promulg'd in Alla's Name throughout the Globe to the Eternal Honour of God and Glory of his Prophet who cou'd neither write nor read yet has Disciples to whom alone the purest Reformation of the Universe is owing Do but survey with an Indifferent Look the last and loveliest Portraicture o' th' World that e'er was made by Man Fix thine admiring Eyes on the Magnifick Seat and Palace of the Sun Consider at the same Time the True and equal Forms Dimensions Distances and mutual Intersections of the Ambient Orbs without the smallest Blurt or Blot in all the Eternal Frame Then tell me thy Opinion whether thou canst not Calculate Nativities erect all manner of Schemes make Almanacks tell credulous Men their future Fortunes appoint th' Eclipses of the Sun and Moon set Venus and Mercury together by th' Ears or stir up furious Mars to make a Hurly-Burly in the Heavens and Elements Or if thou canst not wheadle the sowr Curmudgin Saturn into a soft obliging Humour Or fret the Noble Jupiter to Madness by a damn'd Conjunction with his Mortal Enemy And a Thousand more Astrological Enterprizes Tell me I say whether thou can'st not perform all this and more as well by the enclos'd Effigies of the World as by the old Thread-bare Weather beaten Worm-eaten Italian Clock-work of Ptolomy or the later Inventions of Tycho Brahe and Copernicus It will no now longer be a Secret how those Birds dispose themselves which at a certain Time o' th' Year are seen to gather in mighty Troops and fly directly upward out of Humane Sight not one of the whole Species being left behind or found on any Part o' th' Earth until the Moon has rowl'd full six Times round the Zodiack When they return again in equal Companies unto this Globe each Species to its Native Region For th' Intelligent Fowls exactly know the Hour in which the Earth does in its Yearly Circulation intersect the Neighbouring Orb o' th' Moon and then they Snatch the Opportunity to quit th' Attractive Atmosphere and take the Air of that Adjacent Planet I have a great deal more to say on this Subject which I will reserve for another Letter In the mean Time thou Venerable Star-gazer adieu and remember to be private Paris 7th of the 3d Moon of the Year 1668. LETTER XXI To the Venerable Mufti Principal Support of Learning and true Science THE Orders of thy Sanctity came like a Message from Heaven surprizing me at once with equal Pleasure and Astonishment Every Line encreas'd my Rapture And now I thought I had no more to wish for in the World since the Great Patriarch of the Faithful had condescended to imbrace the Advice of so mean a Slave as Mahmut It has been my passionate Desire to see Knowledge flourish in the Renowned Ottoman Empire that the Infidels may no longer reproach us with Ignorance and Barbarism This was the Reason that I so often importun'd thy Predecessor to encourage the Translation of Histories into the Turkish Language Now thou art pleas'd to begin this Glorious Work and to honour me by