Ceva, Giovanni, Geometria motus, 1692

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              ret. </s>
              <s id="s.000017">Et verò (ſi in hoc genere de me quidquam confiteri decet)
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              niſi aduerſæ valetudinis experimento prudentior factus indo­
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              lem meam huiuſcemodi ſtudijs intemperanter addictam ali­
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              quot ab hinc annis compeſcuißem; nec non quotidie munus à
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              Celſitudine Tua ſummo cum honore & beneficentia demanda­
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              tum (adeo vt hoc etiam nomine Teſeruatorem meum appella­
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              re poſſim) inde me reuocaſſet; eorum, credo equidem, ponderi,
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              aſſiduæque contemplationi ſuccumbere neceſſe erat. </s>
              <s id="s.000018">Vnde au­
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              tem, Celſiſſime dux, huic ſcientiæ tanta vis, vt quos ſibi ſemet
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              adiunxerit, nonniſi altiori ratione queat a ſe ipſa dimittere?
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              <s id="s.000019">An quod fortaſſe vbi animus publicæ vtilitati deſeruire cæpe­
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              rit, veluti in naturæ concilium admiſſus, ſui quodammodo
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              oblitus, propriam humilioremque ſedem reuiſere dedignetur; an
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              quia, cùm inter cæteras ſcientias Geometria demonſtrationem,
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              hoc eſt veritatem ſinceram, & quandam primi veri particu­
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              lam profiteatur, hinc neſcio quid diuinum habent ſibi
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              ,
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              vnde nonniſi Deo impellente, vbi nimirum officia, potiorque
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              ratio id poſtulant, ab eius intuitu retrahatur. </s>
              <s id="s.000020">Hoc equidem
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              puto; atque hinc diuina Geometria iure optimo a doctiſſimis, &
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              clariſſimis viris paſſim nuncupatur. </s>
              <s id="s.000021">Quamobrem nemo non
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              eam ſuſpiciat, eiuſque cultores oppidò diligat; ob eamque
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              huic etiam qualicunque opuſculo benignè annuas ſpero, adeo
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              vt iam Te in terris Dominum, Altorem, Seruatorem, Patro­
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              numque appellare non dubitem, quam vna cum Celſiſſima do­
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              mo mihi, tot tibi nominibus deuincto, ſuperi vt ſeruent ſoſpi­
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              tentque, enixè oro, ac omnibus votis exopto.
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              Sereniſsimæ Celſitudinis Tuæ
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              Humillimus, & Obſequentiſſimus Seruus
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              <s id="s.000024">Ioannes Ceua. </s>
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