Castelli, Benedetto, Of the mensuration of running waters, 1661

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              <s>AN
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              ACCOUNT
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              OF THE
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              Authour and Work.</s>
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              <s>DON BENEDETTO CASTELLI,
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              the famous Authour of theſe enſuing
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              Diſcourſes of the
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              Menſuration of
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              Running Waters,
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              is deſcended from
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              the Worſhipful FAMILY of the
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              GASTELLII,
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              and took his
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              firſt breath near to the lake THR A­
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              SIMENVS, (where
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              Hanibal
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              gave
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              a fatal overthrow to the
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              Roman
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              Legions) in that ſweet and fertile part
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              of happy
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              ITALY,
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              called the
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              Territory
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              of
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              PERUGIA,
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              a branch of the Dukedome of
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              TUSCANY,
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              which
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              at preſent ſubmitteth to the Juriſdiction of the Church, as being a
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              part of
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              St. </s>
              <s>PETER'S Patrimony.
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              His Parents, who were more
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              zealous of the good of his Soul than obſervant of the Propenſion of
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              his Genius, dedicated him (according to the Devotion of that Coun­
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              try) to the Service of the Church; and entered him into the Flou­
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              riſhing Order of Black-Friers, called from the place Moncks
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              of
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              Monte Caſino,
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              and from the Founder
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              Benedictines.
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              Na­
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              ture, that She might conſummate the Profuſion of her Fa­
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              vours upon him, ſent him into the World in an Age that was ſo
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              ennobled and illuminated with Eminent Scholars in all Kinds of
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              Literature, that hardly any Century ſince the Creation can boaſt
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              the like.
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