Borro, Girolamo, Del flusso e reflusso del mare, 1561

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              in coteſto ſtudio, non ve lhaueſſero interdetto. </s>
              <s>Et questo fia,
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              quando darete in luce quella vostra opera de ſubſtantia orbis,
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              ſubbietto appunto del voſtro alto intelletto: E vi ſi aggiugne
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              questo altreſi; che l'hauete composto in lingua latinißima, o vo
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              gliate dir Ciceroniana: coſa da neſſuni, o da pochi, ch'io ſappia,
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              ſino a qui tentata, non che fatta & io per me mal mi ſo perſua­
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              dere, come habbiate à iſprimere certi vocaboli philoſophici, mo
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              stranti la loro energia; ſe non con lunga e tedioſa circonlocu­
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              zione: come ſaria, per grazia d'eſempio, a dire: Ilſubietto della
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              traſmutazione ſostanziale eſſer ente in potenza formalmente
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              concomitantemente, e'l ſubietto della traſmutazione acciden­
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              tale eſſer in atto concomitantemente, ed in potenza
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                te</expan>
              : Materia prima, e materia in potenza ſecondo il dimidio del
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              quale: e molti altri ſimili: iquali latinamente mal ſi poſſono (al
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              mio giudizio) formare. </s>
              <s>Tuttauia ſo quanto valete; perche ho
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              veduto far lunga iſperienza di voi fra gran letterati: ed io in
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              qualche particella me ne ho voluto chiarire: ed ho veduto, che
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              per coſa iſtrauagante ch'io & altri habbia propostaui ci haue­
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              te ſi fattamente riſoluti; che bene appar manifeſto, che ne fatti
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              operiate quello, che di sè in parole promettena Gorgia leonti­
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              no: ilquale ſi offeriua ſciogliere ogni dubbio. </s>
              <s>Or di grazia non in
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              dugiate piu a
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              fuori tal libro, da tutti i letterati, che han
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              no di ciò contezza, bramato ſopra modo: e nel qual ritrarranno
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              ſomma ſodisfazzione, ſi per l'altezza del ſubietto, che è il Cie
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              lo; come per l'utilità; concioſia che in sè
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              in genere tue
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              ta la Philoſophia naturale, ed in ſpezie l'utilità ch'è nel libro
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              del Cielo e del mondo d'Ariſtot. </s>
              <s>E nel qual attendo di vedor
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              quanta destrezza d'ingegno concilierete in molte coſe, doue il
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              biſogno lo richegga; e due grandi Arist. e Plat. </s>
              <s>Laqual coſa
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              conoſco al preſente altri poter fare, ch'eglino isteßi, ſe ci viueſ
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              ſero, o'l Borro; che di tutti due n'ha fatto (come s'è detto) anoto
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              mia. </s>
              <s>E vi proteſto che ſe iudugiate molto piu a laſciarlo correr'
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              per le mani de letterati; che fate lor torto eſpreſſo: percioche
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              de doni à voi
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              da Dio, e
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              la voſtra induſtria ampliati,
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              ne douete altrui far partecipe, e maßimamente giouando loro, </s>
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