The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling ... / [Edward Wells].

  • Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.
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[1712]
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Credit: The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling ... / [Edward Wells]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tions whence the faid 'Phenomena a- rife, after the moft (||) fimple and uniform Manner, and confequently after fuch a Manner, as is moft agree¬ able to the infinite Wifdom of the Creator. I proceed therefore to (hew, how the Celeftial Phenomena, at leaft the more remarkable of them, may be folved according to this Hypothe- whereas the Tychmc\ makes the Earth to have no Mo¬ tion at all, the Semi-tychonicl^ makes it to move round its own Axis^and fo agrees therein with the Coperni- can. But though the Tychonid’> and Semi-tychonici Hypothecs were both defigned as Correftions of the Copernican, yet the Generality of the more Learned in Aftronomy do Hill prefer the Copernican as the moft probable, and that for the Reafon above-mentioned in ftiort, and to be more largely infifted on and ex¬ plained in tl]£ Annotations next following. (||) Thefe two Proportions, Fruftra fit per plu- rtf, quod fieri poteft per pauciora *, and Natura nihil agit fruftray being fo evident to Reafon, as by Logicians and Philofophers to be efteemed Axioms, i. e. unque- ftionable Truths *, it hence follows, that That Hypo- jtheHs is to be efteemed moft agreeable to the Wifdom of God, the Author of Nature, which explains the Motions whence the Celeftial Ph&nomena arife, after the moft fimple (or uncompounded) and uniform Man*- ner y that is, which adjufts the faid Motions to the feweft Laws and Principles. But herein the Copernican Hypothefis excells all the reft, forafrnuch as according thereto, all the Bodies, on whofe Motion depend the Celeftial Phenomena, - are retained in their proper Orbits by the (ingle Principle of Gravity, and move in their Orbits according to one general Rule, or Law of Motion. Of which fee more in Chap. i.