Biancani, Giuseppe, Aristotelis loca mathematica, 1615

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              <s id="s.000031">LECTORI.</s>
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              <s id="s.000032">Qvod priſcis olim temporibus (humaniſſime Lector) ſum­
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              mi duo Philoſophi, Philippus Mendeus, ac Theon Smyr­
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              næus in Platonis Dialogis egregiè perfecerunt, vt videli­
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              cet quæ paſſim ſummus hic Philoſophus de Mathemati­
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              cis ſcripta reliquit, eadem ipſa ab illis ſelecta, & in vnum
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              quaſi corpus redacta lucubrationibus illuſtrarent: idem ego quoque in
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              Ariſtotelis operibus efficere ſum conatus, vt quæ de Mathematicis re­
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              bus in vniuerſis eiuſdem monumentis ſparſa leguntur, eadem in vnum
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              à me collecta, & explicata ijs Philoſophiæ ſtudioſis maxime ſeruirent,
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              qui priſca illa conſuetudine relicta, Mathematicarum omnium ignari
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              non ſine graui ſtudiorum ſuorum detrimento Philoſophiæ curriculum
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              aggrediuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.000033">Vt autem huius operis neceſſitas,
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              ; vtilitates pla­
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              nius cognoſcantur operæpretium erit initio illius cauſas exponere; quæ
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              me potiſſimum ad illud conſcribendum compulerunt, quarum</s>
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              <s id="s.000034">Prima ſit, quod hæc Ariſt. loca Mathematica, quæ quidem ferè 408.
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              numerantur, peſſimè latinis literis conſignata ſunt vſque adeò, vt Ari­
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              ſtotelem ipſum, vel inuitum (quod poſtea multis in locis planum fiet) in
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              abſurdiſſima errata ſæpiſſimè compellant.</s>
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              <s id="s.000035">Secunda, quòd plurima huiuſmodi loca à nemine, quod ſciam, adhuc
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              declarata in tenebris magno noſtrorum malo deliteſcunt: cuiuſmodi
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              ſunt ad ſexaginta problemata, libellus de lineis in ſecabilibus, libellus
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              de mundo, ſi tamen Ariſtotelis eſt, & Mechanicæ quæſtiones, quamuis
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              enim Picolomineus in eas paraphraſim ediderit, loca tamen earum dif­
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              ficiliora non ſatis illuſtrauit. </s>
              <s id="s.000036">Vt autem dixi 408. in vniuerſum loca mi­
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              nimùm numerantur, quibus illud Platonis inſcriptum eſt
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                υδείς εισίτο</foreign>
              ; & in quibus Mathematicæ diſciplinæ rudes, & imperiti, quem
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              ſequuntur ducem Ariſt. eum ſæpe deſerere non ſine turpi dedecoris no­
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              ta coguntur; quo fit vt exempla illa Mathematica lucem rebus aliquan­
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              do allatura, tenebras cimmerijs, vt aiunt vmbris craſſiores ijſdem
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              obducant.</s>
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              <s id="s.000037">Tertia, quia Græci eorumdem locorum commentatores breuiter, &
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              obſcurè admodum ea, quæ ad Mathematicum ſpectant, attingunt, hoc
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              enim ab ipſis
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              ponitur, Lectorem eſſe, vt moris tunc erat, omnium
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              Philo ſophorum, Mathematicis imbutum; at verò noſtra ætate magna
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              cum Philoſophiæ iactura, quamplurimi earumdem diſciplinarum deſti­
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              tuti præſidijs, ne Græcorum quidem Interpretum explanationes, ne­
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              dum Ariſt. obſcurè dicta intelligunt.</s>
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