Hudibras . doth west,And wested twice where he ought rise aright.^ It is mentioned as the opinion of Anaxagoras, that the wholeheaven, which was composed of stone, was kept up by violent circum-rotation, but would fall when the rapidity of that motion should be re-mitted. Some do Anaxagoras the honour to suppose, that this conceitof his gave the first hint towards the modern explications of the plane-tary motions. 2 The knight further argues, that there can be no foundation fortruth in astrology, since the learned differ so much about the planetsthemselves, from which astrologers chiefly draw
Hudibras . doth west,And wested twice where he ought rise aright.^ It is mentioned as the opinion of Anaxagoras, that the wholeheaven, which was composed of stone, was kept up by violent circum-rotation, but would fall when the rapidity of that motion should be re-mitted. Some do Anaxagoras the honour to suppose, that this conceitof his gave the first hint towards the modern explications of the plane-tary motions. 2 The knight further argues, that there can be no foundation fortruth in astrology, since the learned differ so much about the planetsthemselves, from which astrologers chiefly draw their predictions. Plato solem et lunam ceteris planetis infcriores esse putavit. ^ Copernicus thought that tlie eccentricity of the sun, or the obli-quity of the eclii)tic, had been diminished hy many parts since the timesof Ptolemy and Hipparchus. On which Scaliger observed, Coperniciscripta spongiis, vel autorcm scuticis dignum—that the writings of Co-pernicus deserved a sponge, or their author a
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