Guevara, Giovanni di, In Aristotelis mechanicas commentarii, 1627
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              nus hominum capit, incomparabilem obtinue­
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              runt extimationem; verùm quæ ſpeciali qua­
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              dam ratione, in aliam ampliorem,
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              contemplationem, ſummi videlicet rerum ma­
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              chinatoris nos conducant. </s>
              <s id="N1011A">Quippe qui talia hu­
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              mano ingenio excogitare dedit molimina, qui­
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              bus multaque ſupra naturam ſunt, naturam ip­
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              ſam emulando perficeret, arte ſuperando ea à
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              quibus natur a vincimur, (vt Antipho ſcribit
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              Poeta) & cæleſtem machinam eiuſque mul­
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              tiplicem, ac inuariabilem motum, orbiſque to­
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              tius molem imitaretur: vt Archimedes alij­
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              que permulti inſignes Mechanici opere præ­
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              ſtiterunt, & Cambray publico in foro li­
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              cet videre. </s>
              <s id="N1013A">Nimirum arte manum dirigente
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              tamquam potentiam executiuam, & inſtru­
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              mentariam, effectricemque omnium excogi­
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              tabilium machinarum. </s>
              <s id="N10143">Quæ ſolis homini­
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              bus iccirco data eſt, vt perhibet Philoſophus,
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              quia ſoli inter omnia animalia ſumma pru­
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              dentia, in qua ars tota fundatur præditi ſunt.
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              <s id="N10154">Vnde ſicut mens ipſa humana imaginem
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              diuinæ ſapientiæ, ac prouidentiæ refert dum
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              cuncta rectè diſponit; ita, & manus homi­
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              nis, omnipotentiam quodammodo exprimit
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              Creatoris, dum tam varia, ac mira, Me-</s>
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