Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, 1670

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              PROOEMIVM
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              AD LECTOREM.
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              <s id="s.000015">HAbes iam, erudite Lector, in hoc Libro de Motionibus Natura­
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              libus à grauitate pendentibus, vna cum præcedenti do Vi Per­
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              cuſſionis ea omnia, quæ præmitti debuerant ad perfectam intelligen­
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              tiam doctrinæ de animalium motibus, exceptis quamplurimis mecha­
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              nicis lemmatibus, quæ ſuis locis deinceps iuxta ſubiecti exigentiam̨
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              exponentur. </s>
              <s id="s.000016">Debeo tamen nonnulla præfari de hoc, & præcedenti
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              Opere, in quibus multoties afferuntur ſententiæ diuerſæ ab Authorum
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              magni nominis opinionibus. </s>
              <s id="s.000017">Hoc tamen ſumma modeſtia, & modera­
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              tione exequutus ſum; quandoquidem ſententias inſector, non autem
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              authorum nomina, aut famam attingo: quippe qui ſolummodo veri­
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              tatem quæro, ſeruata interim dignitate, & fama clariſſimorum viro­
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              rum: quod conſtat ex eo, quod tunc ſolummodo viuentium autho­
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              rum nomina recenſeo, cum laudandi eos occaſio offertur; cum vero
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              controuerſiæ agitantur nomina authorum omnino teguntur, ac ſilen­
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              tur; quia verò hac tan religioſa moderatione, & modeſtia effugere non
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              potui contradicentium mordacitates, ideo viſum eſt denuo pollicerę
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              me ab inſtituto incepto non dimoueri, nec diſcedere velle, neque op­
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              poſit oribus, ſi qui forſan extiterint, reſponſum vllum apologeticum, &
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              contentioſum edere velle, ſed tantummodo ſi opus fuerit meam do­
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              ctrinam melius, & apertius declarare, vel corrigere vbi forſan huma­
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              no more lapſus fuero. </s>
              <s id="s.000018">Vale. </s>
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