Apian, Petrus, Instrvmentvm Sinvvm, sev primi mobilis

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head4" xml:space="preserve">AMPLISSIMO IN
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          CHRISTO PATRI AC DOMINO,
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          DOMINO CHRISTOPHORO A STADION, AVGV
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          guſtæ Vindelicorum Epiſcopo Reuerendiſsimo, Domino
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          & Mœcenati ſuo Petrus Apianus S. D.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10" xml:space="preserve">MEMINIMVS adhuc, Ampliſsime Præſul, quanta
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            fuerint animi promptitudine noſtra, tuæ Celſitudini
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            ſuſcepta olim in honorem & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11" xml:space="preserve">ornamentum familiæ Sta
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            dianæ conſcripta, in quibus
              <emph style="sc">Primi</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Mobilis</emph>
            commo
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            da ſub proſapiæ tuæ inſignibus æduntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12" xml:space="preserve">Eaipſa, lice
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            at citra iactantiam loqui, quamuis nihil deſiderent
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            quicquàm ad perfectionem ſui, numeris enim nihil
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            certius uſ extat, cum tamen altiora eadem ſint, quàm
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            ut â quouis accipi obuia poſsint, ob computi nimirum onus, quod unum
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            dum fugitur, neſcio quàm iniqué matheſi conſulitur, adactus ſum idem car-
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            men, alijs tamen fidibus recinere, ad id ſanè multo magis permotus, cum tan
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            tus emiſsi ſub nomine tuo, Ampliſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13" xml:space="preserve">Præſul, operis paſsim apud omnes Ma-
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            thematicos ſtudioſos cultus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14" xml:space="preserve">amor increbeſceret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s15" xml:space="preserve">Quadrantem igitur pri-
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            oribus adiecimus
              <emph style="sc">Primi</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Mobilis</emph>
            nuncupantes, eò quod nullus non pri-
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            mi mobilis uſus in eo depræhendatur, dicto uero citius quidlibet & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16" xml:space="preserve">intra
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            calculos, ſola manus opera efficitur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17" xml:space="preserve">Quod autem Tuæ Amplitudini eun-
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            dem dedicem, facit operis ſimilitudo, Cum enim antea ſub nomine Celſitu-
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            dinis Tuæ primum mobile tam fœliciter innotuerit, non potui non & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18" xml:space="preserve">hanc
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            lucubrationis noſtræ partem, Tuæ Amplitudini offerre, quam iccirco ſpero
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            ſub tutela paſſuram ſua ædilibentius, quod & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19" xml:space="preserve">in hoc creberrime ſeſelegat,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20" xml:space="preserve">antea nobis ſinum ſuum non egre accedentibus obtulerit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21" xml:space="preserve">Ne uero ſatis
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            fuit nobis hunc laborem Tuæ Reuerentiæ adſcribere tantum, niſi etiam ſin-
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            gula totius libri pronunciata per diem & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s22" xml:space="preserve">horam, nunquàm ſatis memoran-
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            dæ Sanctionis, ſiue intronizatiõis, ut uocant, tuæ illuſtraremus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s23" xml:space="preserve">hocideo
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            ut nemo non huius operis lector Celſitudinis tuæ frequenter meminiſſe co-
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            gatur unà mecum, quem ego perpetua memoria digniſsimum ſemper iudi-
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            caui. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s24" xml:space="preserve">Atqui fortaſsis audiam opus non eſſe ſatis amplum ſeu folioſum, ſed
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            hic Anaxerxis Memoris appellati, meminiſſe tuam Celſitudinem uelim,
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            qui frigidam caua manu oblatam, non ſegnius hauſit, quàm ſi auro Lesbi-
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            um fuiſſet porrectum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s25" xml:space="preserve">Necnon Auguſti & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">aliorum, quibus ſemper uolun
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            tas uidebatur pluris, quàm actus ipſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">Voluntatem enim non defuiſſe am-
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            pliora offerendi, Tua Celſitudo credat, ſed materiam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s28" xml:space="preserve">Ne uero deſpe-
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            ctui ſit, quia modicum eſt opellum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s29" xml:space="preserve">Ille enim non minus Homerum geſta
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            uit in nuce, ac ille, qui aureis literis eundem magnifice trãſcribi imperauit, & </s>
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            Maior in exiguo ſæpe extat pondere uirtus.</s>
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