Poles, makes the Current to be therefore coftfpictfotis and 
fwift 5 and, confequently, the Eddy, or recurrent motion,near* 
er the Poles, where this is, more remifs : ) than can eafily be ren- 
dered by fo (mail a Tumor, as he fuppofeth. Not to adde 5 that 
his account of the Progreffive motion, which he faufieth to fol- 
low upon this Tumefatffcion, and by Acceleration to grow to 
fo great a height near the Shoar ( as in Chap. 13. and 14 ) is 
a Notion, which feems to me too extravagant to be f^Ived by a- 
ny laws of Staticks. And that of the Moons motion om iy syn- 
chronizing with theTydes, cafually, without any Ply peal con- 
nexion ; i can very hardly affect to For it can hardly be 
imagined, that any fuch conftant Syncho'dpme fliou’d be in 
Nature 5 but where, either th<“ one i* the cau(e of the other, or 
both depend upon fomeC&mmon caufe. And where we fee fo fair 
a foundation for a Pbyfieal connexion. I am not prone to a- 
fcribe it to an Independent Synchronifm. Ihfutri} His Hiftory 
doth well enough agree with my Hypothecs ; and 1 think, the 
Phenomena are much better halved by mine, than his. 
And then as to Gajffendus ^ in his difcourfe De JEftti Marini fi d 
him, after the relating of many other Opinions concerning the 
Caufe of it,inclining t ) that of^^/i/^afcribing it to the Accele- 
ration & Retardation of the Earths motion, compounded of the 
Annual and Diurnal} And moreover attempting to give an ac- 
count of the Menjlrual Periods from the Earths Carrying the 
Moon about it {Q\f,ns Jupiter dfkhhis Satellites ■, which together 
with them is carryed about by the Sun, as one Aggregate} (and 
that the Earth with its Moon is to be fuppofed in like manner to 
be carried about by the Sun, as one Aggregate , eannoi be rea- 
sonably doubted, by thofe who entertain the Copernican Hypo- 
thefs , and do allow the fame of Jupiter and his Satellites ) Hut 
though he would thus have the Earth and Moon looked upon 
as two parts of the fame moved Aggregate, yet he doth ftill fup- 
pofe ( as Galileeo had done before him) that the line of the 
Mean Motion of this Aggregate (or, as he calls, motus (equnbi- 
Its tt velutimedius ) is defcribed by the Center of the Ear’b (about 
which Center he fuppofeth both its own revolution to be made, 
and an Epicycle defcribed by the Moons morion ;) no' fay n o- 
ther Point, diftin& from theGenters of both, about which as the 
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