Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head6" xml:space="preserve">Ad Lectorem.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s14" xml:space="preserve">PAuciſſimiste volo, Amice Lector. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s15" xml:space="preserve">Cur Diſſertationes ſcri-
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            pſerim & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16" xml:space="preserve">Collocutiones, quæris? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17" xml:space="preserve">Multa paucis complecti
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            volui, atque apparatus, fæpè ſuperfluos, ad propoſitam
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            quæſtionem negligere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18" xml:space="preserve">Sed potiſſimùm, quia nihil volui
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            deſinitè pronunciare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19" xml:space="preserve">Sua ſibi maneat cuique ſententia;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20" xml:space="preserve">neminem peto; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21" xml:space="preserve">non in partes diſcedo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s22" xml:space="preserve">neminem mihi aſſeclam de-
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            poſco. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s23" xml:space="preserve">Animi cauſa ſcribenti placuit familiaris Collocutionis liber-
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            tate vti, atque, reiectis ſeuerioris ſcriptionis compedibus, per aper-
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            tos Phyſicarum quæſtionum ad Ignem ſpectantium campos philo-
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            ſophando vagari.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s25" xml:space="preserve">At plura de Igne diſputare potuiſſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">videlicet An igneæ ſint vi-
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            uentium animæ, humanam ſi demas, quæ materiæ expers eſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">An
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            flammula in corde vigeat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s28" xml:space="preserve">An inter ignes vitam ducere valeant ani-
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            mantes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s29" xml:space="preserve">An ignea ſint cum Sole & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s30" xml:space="preserve">cœtera ſydera, præſertim fixa:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s31" xml:space="preserve">potuiſſes perpetuos è montibus erumpentes Vulcanos, fulminum,
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            cœterorumque ignitorum Meteororum naturam, ac vires conſide-
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            rare, vt pleniùs vberiùſque Ignis natura innoteſceret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s32" xml:space="preserve">Potuiſſem vti-
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            que, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s33" xml:space="preserve">voluiſſem; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s34" xml:space="preserve">ideoque non pauca in Aduerſarijs congeſſeram. </s>
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            Sed alieni iuris homini non licuit, quas alijs muneribus debebat, lu-
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            cubrationibus horas impendere, neque plures, quàm ſubciſiuas. </s>
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            Otium verò, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s37" xml:space="preserve">annos, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s38" xml:space="preserve">valetudinem, hac deuexa ætate, adhuc ſpe-
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            rare ſi velim, prorſus imprudens fuero. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s39" xml:space="preserve">Quare paucula hæc in non-
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            nullorum fortaſſe vtilitatem prodire patior. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s40" xml:space="preserve">Plura addere, ſi quan-
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            do tempus tulerít, nil vetat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s41" xml:space="preserve">vtinam nihil ineptè dictum, quod de-
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            mere expediat.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s43" xml:space="preserve">Cur autem tres egregios Viros diſſertatores inducere auſus fue-
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            rim, nil eſt, quod dicam: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s44" xml:space="preserve">volui ſcilicet amiciſſimorum capitum no-
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            mina in grati animi ſignificationem, quoad per me licet, perennita-
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            ti conſecrare, atque ex ſplendidís nominibus lucem aliquam mu-
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            tuare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s45" xml:space="preserve">Nec te pluribus moror. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s46" xml:space="preserve">Vale.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head7" xml:space="preserve">ADMONITIVNCVLA.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s48" xml:space="preserve">PRodiere nuperrìmè Lugduni, quos ſcripſeram, Mechanicorum Libri Octo,
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            in quibus ex vno eodemque principio Vectis, cœterarumque Facultatum
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            vires Phyſicè explicare, ac Geometricè demonſtrare conatus ſum, omnium Ma-
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            chinarum fundamenta ſtatuens. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s49" xml:space="preserve">Cuius autem oſcitantiæ tribuendum ſit, ne-
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            ſcio, quod perperam in ipſa libri facie atque inſcriptione ſolius Vectis facta ſit
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            mentio, omnino contra totius illius ſcriptionis ſcopum, adeò vt verbis illis ne-
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            que legitimus ſenſus conſtet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s50" xml:space="preserve">Ablens non potui tempori adeſſe, vt tam fœdè la-
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            pſum Typothetam ſubleuarem: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s51" xml:space="preserve">ideò te monitum nunc volo, Lector beneuole,
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            ne mihi tribuas titulum ſcriptioni minimè cohærentem.</s>
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