" (2140) 
ted to the Fluid matter of the World through which it paffcth, con- 
fifts only in this, thit Copernic fpeaketh of the motion of the Earth, 
as one would do, that being to tell how he had been in a Coach from 
pAris to Orleans, would mark a certain way, and fay, he had paffed o- 
ver it by the motion of a Coach drawn by horfes-,wheras Tycho would 
fpeak as another man, who though he had likewife been in a Coach 
from Paris to Orleans the fame way, yet would not acknowledge any 
motion neither in the Coach nor in the Horfes,but maintain, that the 
fVay it felf had moved, and the wheels of the Coach had only turn'd a- 
bout their Axle« trees , and the Horfes done nothing but lifted up 
their legs, to let the way Aide away under them. Heobferveth fur- 
ther that xht Copernkan fyfterae rightly underfloodattributeth no mo- 
tion at all to the Earth : For, Motion being taken for nothing clfc 
than for afuccelTive application of a Body to the feveral parts of the 
immediately encompaffing and neighbouring Bodies, 'tis plain, that 
what is cali'd the Diurnal motion of the Earth , belongs rather to the 
Mafs compos'd of the Earth , the Seas, and the Air, than to the Earth 
in particular, which is to be efteem'd in a pcrfed Reft, forafmuch as 
Ihe is carried away by the Torrent of the matter wherein (he fwims j 
juft as we fay, that a Man is at reO: that deeps in a ftip,whil'ft the Ihip 
is indeed in motion : And fo that which is called the Anmal motion 
of the Earth, doth not all appertain to her, nor even to the compos*d 
mafs of Earth, Water and Air , but to the Celeftial raatter,which car- 
rieth this Mafs about the Sun. After this he difcourfeth of the Nature 
of the Stars and their influences* Next, he renders an Accompt of 
Gravity 2ind Levity ( which for want of premifes,he could not fpeak of 
inthefirftpartj and maketh Cravity nothing elfe but a lefs Levity. 
And laftly, he concludeth this part with the doftrineofthe Flux^ni 
Mefi^xoftheSea,2Ls depending from the Preffure of the Moon. 
In the Third psLTt he explains the nature of the Earth , and Earthly 
Bodies,that is,fuch as are either contain'd in it or are about it,asthe 
Air, Water, Fire, Salts, Oils, MettalSjMinerals, and Meteors* Where, 
among many other Remarques3 he declareth, that though the Tranf- 
mutation of bafer mettais into Silver or Gold be not ahfolmely irapofr 
fible , yet morally 'tis S forafmuch as men not knowing in particular,' 
which is the Figure and Size of the little particles that enter into the 
Compofitionof Mcttals, nor the fhape and fize of the other ingre- 
dients, that may be neceffary to efFed this Tranfmutation, norhave 
yet found the fecret to unite them together^ that therefore it may 
very well be concluded, that if it be true what is faid of fome Chy- 
fnifts having formerly converted Lead into Gold, it hath happened 
byfo great a chance , as if a handful of fand being let fall from on 
high upon a Table, the grains had foorderiy ranged themfelvts , as 
f 5 f5»ke one read diftinft 1 y a page of Virgil"% vSmids^ 
