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move both upon its own Poles, and in the Eclip- 

 tick, is now the received Opinion of the moil 

 learned and skilful Mathematicians, To prove 

 the Diurnal Motion of it upon its Poles, I need 

 produce no other Argument than, Firji, The 

 vaft Difproportion in refped: of Magnitude, that 

 is between the Earth and the Heavens, and the 

 great Unlikelihood that fuch an infinite Num- 

 ber of vaft Bodies {hould move about fo incon- 

 fiderable a Spot as the Earth, which in Compar- 

 rifon with them, by the concurrent Suffrages 

 of Mathematicians of both Perfwafions, is a mere 

 Point, that is, next to nothing. Secondly^ The 

 immenfe and incredible Celerity of the Motion 

 of the Heavenly Bodies in the ancient Hypothejis, 

 thirdly ^ Of its Annual Motion in the Ecliptick, 

 the Stations and Retrogradations of the fuperior 

 Planets are a convincing Argument, there being 

 a clear and facile Account thereof to be given 

 from the mere Motion of the Earth in the Eclip- 

 tick J whereas in the old Hypothefis no Account 

 can be given, but by the unreafonable Fiction of 

 Epicycles, and contrary Motions ; add hereto, 

 the great Unlikelihood of fuch an enormous 

 Epicycle as Ve?2iis muft defcribe about the Sun, 

 not under the Sun, as the old Aflronomers fan- 

 cied. About the Sun, I fay, as appears by its 

 being hid or eclipfed by it, and by its feveral 

 Phafes, like the Moon. So that whofoever doth 

 tlearly underftand both Hypothefcs, cannot, I 

 perfwade my felf, adhere to the Old, and reject 



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