Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	find_v	good_a	see_v	1,488	5	3.0451	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08589	To the English gentrie, and all others studious of the mathematicks which shall bee readers hereof. The just apologie of Wil: Oughtred, against the slaunderous insimulations of Richard Delamain, in a pamphlet called Grammelogia, or the mathematicall ring, or mirisica logarithmorum projectio circularis.	Oughtred, William, 1575-1660.	1634 (1634)	STC 18901A; ESTC S119424	30,064	34

adde diverse other operations to be performed by the Instrument as now it is and many others with some additions to the Instrument as namely the degree of the Aequinoctiall in the Meridian at any time and the degree of the Aequinoctiall in the Horizon East and West and the degree of the Zodiac in the Meridian called Cor coeli and the ascendent degree thereof called the Horoscope and concerning the twelve houses of the heavens for the erecting of a figure and concerning the ninetyeth degree of the Ecliptic above the Horizon and the altitude of it and I know not what else or rather almost any thing else These are the ordinary meane and triviall uses which I delivered and are to be seene in my letter And hath Delamain unvayled any I doe not say more for he runneth division but other uses then I have done Yes marry hath he for in his booke of his Horizontall quadrant from pag 44 to 51 you shall find these uses Eighth-ly to find the inequallity of time in aequall moneths or aequall number of dayes Ninth-ly to find the degree of the Aequator in the Horizon by supposing the degree of the Ecliptic in the Horizon Tenth-ly to find the degree of the Ecliptic in the Horizon by supposing the degree of the Aequator in the Horizon Eleventh-ly But if the degree of the Ecliptic in the Horizon were required by knowing the degree of the Ecliptic in the Meridian Twelf-ly to find the Horoscope or the degree ascendent or desc●●●ent and the Nonagesime degree at any houre Thirteenth-ly to find what angle the Ecliptic maketh with the Horizon or the altitude of the Nonagesime degree of the Ecliptic above the Horizon and what Azumith it is in at any houre O Sir may Richard Delamain say now I have overtopped you in these things you cannot deny but that I have unvayled the subject to helpe your fight Not so neither for every worke is ascribed to him that first found it out Nor is the Authour therfore to be accounted ignorant or to want fight though some other after him shall make some addition or accesse thereto seeing it is an easy matter to adde to an invention once discovered But yet let us see what learned and rare uses those are which you have unvayled The eighth is utterly alien from this Instrument and requireth necessarily the knowledge of the true and proper motion of the Sunne which this Instrument giveth not at all and of the exact right ascension which this Instrument giveth but at large and so is this use of no use but a vaine flourish The ninth is nothing else but to find out the Sunnes oblique ●●cention The tenth eleventh twelfth and thirteenth which indeed were excellent uses if he could shew them are utterly false In all which you have unvayled nothing but your owne want of skill and most grosse ignorance of the very ground of this projection And now have you not very fairely h●●●en my sight and the sight of others to see your rashnesse and lacke of art which all your facing though your face if it be possible were harder then it is will never bee able to make good Yet for all this and now I challenge you let us see the performance of these questions upon the Horizontall Instrument with what reasonable addition you can which shall not quite alter the nature of it and I will freely acknowledge you to be a man of art and not at all impute unto you any plagium or Mounte-banke tricks But seeing you have already ●nvayled your want of wit I will take a little paines for you to unvayle your want of honesty to helpe the fight of these Gentlemen our judges to see what trust they may repose in such an Instrument-monger and player of leger-de-la-main as you are While hee was printing his tractate of the Horizontall quadrant although he could not but know that it was injurious to me in respect of my free gift to Master Allen and of William Forster whose translation of my rules was then about to come forth yet such was my good nature and his shamelessenesse that every day as any sheet was printed hee s●●t or brought the same to mee at my chamber in Arundell horse to peruse which I lovingly and ingenuously did and gave him my judgement of it When we were come to the said pag 44 to 51 I gently shewed him the falsity of those propositions And he said o● no● they be wrought then No replyed I not by the Instrument as now it is without some addition I can worke them but you cannot he asked why cannot I as well I answered because you are ignorant of the ground of this Instrument and projection What shall I doe then said hee you must said I be content to lose that ●●eet and new print it After a little pawse he was not ashamed to resolve with these very words though your sight be so sharpe that you can note these faults yet many hundreds that shall see the booke will never be able to spye them and withall told me that he had penned that booke in a fortnight with great hast I said I did easily beleeve as much for Canis festinans caecos parit catulos This was at that time our communication and his gallant resolution And if this be not jugling never did any Hocus-pocus jugle That unlesse a man were given over to shame and shamelesnesse he would never so shamefully abuse his learners and so shamelessely hazard his I cannot say good name and reputation Yet sticketh he not most vainely that I may say no worse to conclude his said booke with this braving flourish But if any man desire to say more upon this Horizontall quadrant then I have done I have made way for him and unvayled the subject to helpe his sight But he saith the projection was none of mine for Munster hath it and Blagrave and some others this latter writ some yeares since I beganne to use this Instrument and that in Munster is no projection but a resemblance of a concave D●●ll which likenesse can no more argue this Instrument then Delamains blacke clothes can prove him to be a scholler And it were a wonder that seeing the writers of these Arts doe imagine their Diagrammes upon the plaines of severall Circles as occasion requireth if none should be found that have made their delineations upon the plaine of the Horizon But of such as ever have used the same for an Instrument before me he neither can nor hath shewed any Of the Circles of proportion FOr these I must freely confesse I have not so good a claime against all men as for my Horizontall Instrument though against Richard Delamain I have The honour of the invention next to the Lord of Merchiston and our Master Briggs belongeth if I have not been wrongly informed to Master Gunter who exposed their numbers upon a streight line which being once done was there any such masterie to bring the same line