Biancani, Giuseppe, Aristotelis loca mathematica, 1615

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              tiarum, quamuis non Ariſtotele tantum, ſed ipſa etiam veritate repu­
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              gnante, expungere conati ſint;
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              neſcio an vlla alia de cauſa egerint,
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              quàm quod eas non ſatis calerent; non ſecus
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              Aeſopica illa Vulpes,
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              quæ cum cauda mutilata eſſet, caudarum mutilationem reliquis vulpi­
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              bus vafrè perſuadere conabatur. </s>
              <s id="s.000066">Verum enim verò optimè ſcio, ea,
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              quę hactenus dicta ſunt non in omnes noſtri temporis Philoſophos qua­
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              drare, cum non pauci hodie quoque ſint, qui more antiquorum Mathe­
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              maticis ſuffulti, optimè ſuis ſtudijs conſulentes, reliquam Philoſophiam
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              non ſine magno compendio aggrediuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.000067">Quo fit, vt cæteros ageo­
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              metretos ita antecellant, vt eorum Magiſtri appellari poſſint, &
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              ;
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              tales fuerunt in primis Vicomercatus, Cardanus, Zabarella, Toletus,
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              Bonamicus, & alij, quibus paulo antiquiores fuerunt D. Tho. & Scotus,
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              Hi omnes Mathematicarum auxilio, quantum inter reliquos philoſo­
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              phantes excelluerint, nemo eſt qui non nouerit. </s>
              <s id="s.000068">Illud hoc loco minimè
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              tacendum, Iacobum Zabarellam in ſuis logicæ commentarijs teſtari ſe
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              bis ſumma diligentia totum Euclidem perlegiſſe, vt perfectè Ariſt. de
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              demonſtratione ſententiam aſſequi poſſet.</s>
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              <s id="s.000069">Hi ridiculas illas, ac pueriles expoſitiones ſuperius allatas minimè
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              effutierunt, neque reliquis ſupra recenſitis incommodis obnoxij fue­
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              runt, quibus magno etiam cum dedecore alij Mathematicarum ope ca­
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              rentes afficiuntur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000070">In horum igitur gratiam operam diligenter dedi, vt quantum in me
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              eſſet damna à me ſupra enarrata aliqua ex parte reſarcirem. </s>
              <s id="s.000071">Quaprop­
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              ter loca hæc mathematica num rectè eſſent è græco in latinum tranſlata
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              diligenter prius expendi. </s>
              <s id="s.000072">Deinde claritate, quàm potui maxima eadem
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              loca interpretatus ſum, & in horum, de quibus dixi gratiam, quædam
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              fanè tenuia proſequutus ſum, quæ alioquin libenter omiſiſſem. </s>
              <s id="s.000073">Tum fi­
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              guras omnes, aut correxi, aut reſtitui, aut nouas appoſui. </s>
              <s id="s.000074">Hoc igitur
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              noſtro qualicunque labore poterit quiſque omnia illa facile intelligere,
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              enumerata incommoda euitare, vnum tantummodo à Lectore ma­
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              thematicarum experte requiram, vt principia ſaltem illa, ſcilicet defini­
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              tiones, poſtulata, & axiomata, quæ primò Euclideis libro præponuntur,
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              diligenter prius perlegat cum illa ſua perſpicuitate omnibus ſint obuia;
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              cætera ego explicanda recipio. </s>
              <s id="s.000075">Obiter etiam auctaria nonnulla partim
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              mathematica, partim naturalia inſerui, quæ ob nouitatem, ac pulchri­
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              tudinem grata Lectori, atque iucunda fore exiſtimaui.</s>
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              <s id="s.000076">Sciat præterea Lector noſtrum inſtitutum eſſe loca hæc mathemati­
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              ca, quatenus mathematica ſunt declarare, ſiue ea ſupplere, quæ ex ma­
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              thematicis petenda eſſent: reliqua autem me tantum attingere, quan­
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              tum harum rerum cum illis connexio poſtulat.</s>
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