Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome


Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome




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To the most Serene Grand DUKE OF TUSCANY.

To the Noble and most perfectly Accomplished S^{t.} JOHN DENHAM Knight of the Noble Order of the BATH, And Surveyor General of his Ma^{ties} Works, &c.

THE AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS of the FIRST TOME.

GALILÆUS Galilæus Lyncæus, HIS SYSTEME OF THE WORLD.
  The First Dialogue.
  The Second Dialogue.
  The Third Dialogue.
  The Fourth Dialogue.

THE Ancient and Modern DOCTRINE OF Holy Fathers, AND Iudicious Divines,

A TABLE Of the most Observable PERSONS and MATTERS Mentioned in the FIRST PART Of The First Tome.

MATHEMATICAL COLLECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: THE SECOND TOME.

THE AUTHOURS EPISTLE TO Pope URBAN VIII.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE Authour and Work.

OF THE MENSURATION OF Running Waters.
  LIB. I.
  Lib. II.

A CONSIDERATION Upon the DRAINING OF THE Pontine Fenns.

A TABLE Of the most observable matters in this Treatise of the MENSURATION of RUNNING WATERS.


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GALILÆUS Galilæus Lyncæus, HIS SYSTEME OF THE WORLD.

    GALILÆUS Gailæus Lyncæus, HIS SYSTEME OF THE WORLD.


The Fourth Dialogue.

INTERLOCVTORS.SALVIATUS, SAGREDUS, & SIMPLICIUS.

SAGR. I know not whether your return to our accustomed conferences hath really been later than usual, or whether the desire of hearing the thoughts of Salviatus,touching a matter so curious, hath made me think it so: But I have tarried a long hour at this window, expecting every moment when the Gondolawould appear that I sent to fetch you.

SALV. I verily believe that your imagination more than our tarriance hath prolonged the time: and to make no longer de-
Nature in sport maketh the ebbing and flowing of the Sea, to approve the Earths mobility.
murre, it would be well, if without interposing more words, we came to the matter it self; and did shew, that nature hath permitted (whether the business in rei veritate be so, or else to play Bbb 2 and

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