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[Transcriber's Additional Notes and Errata]
Works and Authors Cited in Sidenotes:
This is not intended to be a comprehensive list. A few sources could not
be identified; others are so well-known, they did not need to be marked.
The following spellings and name forms are used consistently:
Austin = Augustine
Blancanus the Jesuit(e) = Josephus Blancanus, Giuseppe Biancani
Caelius = Lodovicus Caelius Rhodiginus
Tycho = Tycho Brahe
Nicholas Hill "a country man of ours". Hill the early atomist,
not Hill (Montanus, van de Bergh) the printer.
Keplar = Kepler (Johannes)
Julius Caesar = Caesar la Galla, Giulio Cesare La Galla, Lagalla
Maeslin = Maestlin (Michael)
Rawleigh, Rawly = Raleigh (Sir Walter)
Verulam = Francis Bacon (1st Baron Verulam)
Note also "sydera" for "sidera".
Albertus Magnus: _De quattuor coaequaevis_
----: _De caelo et mundo_
Aristotle: _De Caelo_
Bede: _De ratione temporum_
Christopher Besoldus: _De Natura Populorum ejusque variatione, et de
Linguarum ortu atque immutatione_ (1632)
Josephus Blancanus (Giuseppe Biancani): _Sphaera mundi_
(Full Title: _Sphaera Mundi seu Cosmographia. Demonstrativa, ac
facili Methodo tradita: In qua totius Mundi fabrica, una cum novis,
Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumque; Astronomorum adinventis
continetur_)
----: _Aristotelis loca mathematica ex universes ipsius operibus
collecta et explicata_
Tycho (Brahe): _Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata_
Th. (Tommaso) Campanella: _Apologia pro Galileo_ (1622)
Collegium Conimbricenses (Jesuits of Coimbra University): _Commentarii
Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Jesu in quattuor libros
physicorum Aristotelis de Coelo_ (1592)
Cardinal de Cusa, Cusanus (Nicholas of Cusa/Kues, Nicolaus Cryffts):
_De Docta Ignorantia_
Johannes Fabricius: _De Maculis in Sole Observatis, et Apparente earum
cum Sole Conversione Narratio_ (1611)
Text not identified by name.
Libertus Fromondus (Libert Froidmont): _Meteorologicorum libri sex_
(1627)
Galileo: _Nuncius Sidereus_
Camillus Gloriosus (Giovanni Camillo Glorioso): _De Cometis dissertatio
astronomico-physica_ (1624)
Isidore: _Originum_
Johannes Kepler: _Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo_
The name "Galileo" (or "Galilei") is sometimes included in the
title, as "Diss. cum Nunc. Syd. Galil."
----: _Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae_
----: _Astronomiae Pars Optica_
Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare La Galla): _De Phenomenis in Orbe Lunae_
(1612)
Leonard Lessius: _De perfectionibus moribusque divinis_ (1620)
This work is often cited as "De Moribus"; other early mentions are
found in _Tristram Shandy_ and _The Anatomy of Melancholy_.
Maeslin (Michael Maestlin): _Epitome Astronomiae_ (1610)
Carolus Malapertus, Malapertius (Charles Malapert): _Austriaca sidera
heliocyclia astronomicis hypothesibus illigata_ (1633)
Jacobus Mazonius (Jacopo Mazzoni): _In universam Platonis et Aristotelis
philosophiam praeludia sive de Comparatione Platonis et Aristotelis_
Johannes Eusebius (Juan Eusebio) Nieremberg: _Historia Naturae_ (1635)
Augustinus Nifus (Niphus, Agostino Nifo)
Quoted text not identified by name.
Benedictus Pererius (Benito Pereira): _Commentariorum et disputationum
in Genesim tomi quattuor_ (1591-99)
Plutarch: _De facie in orbe lunae_
----: _De tranquillitate animi_
Erasmus Reinhold: Commentary (1542, 1553) on Georg Purbach's _Theoricae
novae planetarum_
Caelius = Lodovicus Caelius Rhodiginus (Lodovico / Luigi Ricchieri):
_Lectionum antiquarum libri triginta_
Ruvio (Antonio Rubio): Commentary on Aristotle's _De Caelo_
(Julius Caesar) Scaliger: _Exotericae exercitationes ad Hieronymum
Cardanum_
Christoph Scheiner: _Rosa Ursina sive Sol ex Admirando Facularum
& Macularum suarum Phoenomeno varius_
Tostatus (Alonso Tostado): _In Genesis_
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Errors and Anomalies:
All but one occurrence of -que is written with a ligature. They have
been expanded for this e-text.
though they have for a long time lien neglected
_so in original: "lain"?_
+pollous ede kai oudena noon echontas+
_text reads +pellous+; last vowel in +echontas+ unclear_
both St. _Uincentius_and _Senafinus_
_"Senafinus" could not be identified, but cannot be Serafinus_
_Aristotle_ was the viol of Gods wrath
_spelling "viol" as in original_
the world is much beholden to _Aristotle_ for all its sciences
_text reads "it sciences"_
if there be more worlds than one
_text reads "more words"_
[Sidenote] Ecclus. 43. 3. 4.
_so in original: "Eccles."?_
[Sidenote to "Ptolome"] _I{o} Apost._
_reading unclear, text not identified: "I^o."?_
[Sidenote to "Rosa Vrsina"] _lib. 4. p. 2. cy. 24, 35._
_unclear: "ty." or error for "cp."?_
_Hebraeonia l. 2. c. 4._
_text unclear: "Hebraeoma"?_
and more especially _Malapertius_
_text reads "Mulapertius"_
but never confuted by any solid reason
_text reads "coufuted"_
[Sidenote] ... _dissertatio / cum Nic. Hill._ ...
_so in original: error for "dissertatio cum Nunc[ius] Sid[ereus]"
(by Kepler)?_
vius qui ad experimenta haec contradicendi animo accesserant
_so in original_
it might probably be deduced
_text reads "de deduced"_
so _Ioach. Rlelicus_
_so in original: "Rheticus"?_
Others think[1] that there be some bodies
_text reads "that there some bodies"_
[Sidenote] So _Bede_ in _d. de Mund. constit._
_single letter illegible: could be "fi" or "a"_
[Sidenote] Eusebius Nioremb. _Hist. Nat.
_so in original: "Nieremberg"_
sententiam exsuscitare velit
_text reads "excuscitare"_
that earth in the writings of _Capernicus_ and his followers
_spelling as in original_
[Sidenote] _Lect. ant. l. 1. c. 15._
_text reads "Lect. aut l. 1"_
Nay this opposes his owne eye-witnesse
_text reads "owne-eye-witnesse"_
that in the Moone there should be any mountaines
_text reads "thete"_
_Olympus_, _Atlas_, _Taurus_ and _Enius_
_text unclear; may be "Emus": for Mt. Aenus?_
the 47th proposition in the first booke of elements.
Therefore the whole line _A_ _G_ is somewhat more than 104
_"the 47th proposition" is better known as the Pythagorean theorem.
"104" is presumably an error for "1004"; the correct figure is
almost 1005_
[Sidenote] _Plat. de fac._
_so in original: "Plut[arch]"?_
[Sidenote] _Praefat. ad Austrica syd._
_so in original: "Austriaca"_
[Sidenote to Caelius] _Progym. 1._
[Sidenote to Tycho] _l. 20. c. 5._
_notes may be reversed: Tycho Brahe wrote a "Progymnasmata"_
because of the exuperancy of the light in the other parts
_so in original: "exsuperancy"_
because they are farre neerer it than wee
_text unclear_
a more chokie soyle like the Ile of _Creete_
_spelling as in original: "chalky"_
in his time tooke especiall notice
_text reads "looke" but catchword has "tooke"_
such appearances may be salved some other way
_so in original_
[Sidenote] _Carolus Malaptius de Heliocyc._
_so in original: Malapert(i)us_
2. _Maeslin_ and _Keplar_ affirme, that they have seene some of these
alterations. The words of _Maeslin_ are these (as I finde them
cited.)
[Sidenote] _Disser. 2. cum nunc. Galil._
_sidenote is attached to Maeslin quote, but work named is by Kepler_
there are some inhabitants in that Planet
_text reads "inhabitans"_
The equality of their nights doth much temper the scorching of the day,
and the extreme cold that comes from the one, require some space
_wording as in original_
This part of the world is inhabited by men and beasts, and Plantes.
_text reads "Planets"_
intellectuares habitatores
_so in original: "intellectuales"?_
ex influentia ignili solis
_adjective "ignilis" may have been invented by author cited_
but _Lessius_ thinkes that this opinion gives them too much roome
_text reads "opi/on" at line break_
hee cals it a terrestriall starre
_text reads "terrestraill"_
_Pererius_ fathers it upon _Strabus_ and _Rabanus_
_text reads "fathers is"_
Punctuation:
the Cities and Mountaines hanging." What shall wee thinke
_marginal quotes continue through line beginning "shall wee"_
a propension in its subject
_text reads "'its" with leading apostrophe_
But the position (say some) is directly against Scripture
_opening parenthesis missing_
Scripturequae coelum pluribus realibus atque
_"atque" written out (all other -que occurrences use ligature)_
more directly proved by _Maeslin_, _Keplar_, and _Galilaeus_
_no comma after "Maeslin"_
it seemed most / likely to _Camillus Gloriosus_, _Th. Campanella_
_text has period (full stop) for comma_
too much for to vent at the first: the chiefe thing
_text reads "at the first. the"_
the words of _Fienus_, as they are quoted by _Fromondus_ in the above
cited place, _Possunt maximae ..._
_text has "... cited place) _Possunt ..."_
_could also be:_
the words of _Fienus_ (as they are quoted by _Fromondus_ in the
above cited place) _Possunt maximae
vespere Dominicae Palmarum Anni 1605, in corpore Lunae
_text reads "Anni 1605. in corpore"_
And this was the opinion of the _Cardinal de Cusa_
_text reads "de cusa"_
but to lead us along from the knowledge of one thing to another
_"a/long" printed at line break without hyphen_
Printer's Errors:
Invisible letters or punctuation marks, supplied from context, are shown
in {braces}.
2{.} Grosse absurdities have beene entertained
[Sidenote] _Plutarch. de t{r}anq. anim._
[Sidenote] _Lib. 9. Architecturae{.}_
[Sidenote] Reinhold _comment. in Purb. Th{e}or. pag. 164._
[Sidenote] _In lib. de natur. rerum{.}_
[Sidenote] _De 4r. Coaevis.... Exercit{.} 62._
[Sidenote] _Plut. de plac. phil. l. 2. c. 13{.}_]
[Sidenote] _Ex qua parte luna est transpi{c}ua non totum secundum
superfi{ci}em,
[Sidenote] _Albert. mag. de {c}oaevis. Q. 4. Art. 21._
[Sidenote] _S{c}alig. exercit. 62._
some others have thought it to be ver{y} much like a Fox
Mihi autem dubium fuit nu{m}quam ... sese in conspectum da{t}uram
But it may be againe obj{e}cted
yet would the motion of i{t}s centre by an attractive vertue still hold
it w{it}hin i{t}s convenient distance, so that whether their ear{t}h
moved
_"within": "i" missing, "t" invisible_
You may see this truth assented unto by _Blancanus_ the J{e}suit
and if you obj{e}ct that the light which is conveyed
for he confesses himselfe that he saw this by the glasse{.}
our earth appeares a{s} brigh{t}
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Pagination:
_Pages 177-192 (printed as 175-190) are all one error: The eight pages
printed on one side of the sheet forming signature N were misnumbered
by -2._
118, 120 _read_ 18, 20
123 _reads_ 113
166 _reads_ 66
177, 180, 181, 184, 185, 188, 189, 192
_read_ 175, 178, 179, 182, 183, 186, 187, 190
209 _reads_ 107
210, 211 _read_ 208, 209
212, 213, 214 _no printed number_
215 _reads_ 63