Fabri, Honoré, Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, 1665

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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.000038"> Hebetiori, quæſo, ingenio ignoſce, optime Auguſtine, quod
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              energiam illam rationum, quæ pro Copernico militant, nondum aſſequi
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              potuit; nec mirum profectò, lippos enim oculos ſubtilia fallunt, ac ſeſe
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              iis ſubducunt; quate vt ſum inprimis veritatis amans, me tibi plurimùm
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              obſtrinxeris, ſi præfatas rationes ea mihi claritudine exponas, quâ, vt mi­
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              rificè vales, ita & mihi opus eſſe fateor, ad debiliores mentis oculos re­
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              creandos. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000040"> Non legiſti apud Galileum, ita limpidè ac perſpicuè explica­
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              tas, vt nihil meo judicio, clarius aut liquidius legi poſſit? </s>
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              <s id="s.000042"> Legi haud dubiè; Vt enim Authorem illum maximi facio, ita
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              nihil ab eo in publicam lucem editum fuit, quod ſtatim avidè ſæpè ac ſæ­
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              piùs non legerim; hoc tamen tibi perſuadeas, velim, prædictas rationes,
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              quamvis alioquin elegantiſſimè ab eo explicatas, illa vi & nervo, vt dicis,
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              pollere mihi non videri, ſingulas accuratè perpendi & ponderavi, nec op­
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              poſitæ ſententiæ ſtudium obfuit; nam crede mihi; vnius dumtaxat veri­
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              tatis amore ducor, quam ſive Copernicus porrigat, ſive Ptolemæus, ſive
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              Ariſtoteles, ſive Democritus; illa æquè grata & chara mihi ſemper accidit.
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              <s id="s.000043">Sed quæſo te, periculum faciamus, vt ſaltem dum noſtri venerint, hoc mo­
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              dicum tempus cum æſtu fallamus. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000045"> Per me licet; ſed curſim, iis tamen prætermiſſis, quæ inter
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              Academicos quidem, non tamen inter Philoſophos locum obtinent, quas
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              potiùs rationum vmbras, quàm veras rationes appellare ſoleo. </s>
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              <s id="s.000047"> Optimè judicas, quid enim juvat, tanti rem momenti leviſſimis
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              fulcire adminiculis: Nonnulla obiter indico. </s>
              <s id="s.000048">Sol, inquiunt, tes inter cor­
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              poreas nobiliſſimus, in nobiliſſimo loco, ſcilicet in mundi centro, collo­
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              cari debuit; quaſi verò infimus locus ſupremo nobilior reputandus ſit, &
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              tenebroſus orcus radianti præferendus Empyreo: ſed pergunt, quiſquis
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              alterius operâ indiget, ad illum accedere debet, neque hunc, ſed illum
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              moveri par eſt; cùm igitur reliqua corpora benigno Solis influxu indi­
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              geant, hunc certè immotum conſiſtere, illa verò circa perennem illum
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              beneficæ naturæ fontem ite oportuit. </s>
              <s id="s.000049">Bellè profectò; Solem rerum crea­
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              tarum Principem faciunt, qui tamen omnibus ſervit, & non modò ani­
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              mantibus, verùm etiam plantis dignitate cedit; Æquum igitur eſt, vt circa
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              terram eat, cuius gratia conditus eſt, non verò vt tellus eiuſque incolæ
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              circa Solem ite cogantur. </s>
              <s id="s.000050">Denique ex culina ipſa nova depromunt argu­
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              menta; Videmus, inquiunt,
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              ad immotum ignem in gyros verti, quod
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              certè rationi conſentaneum eſſe videtur; quidni ergo pariter terreſtris
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              globus, qui calore Solis foveri & recreari debet, circa Solem, non Sol cir­
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              ca terram volvatur? </s>
              <s id="s.000051">Hoc argumentum culinam olet, vnde profectum eſt. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000053"> Sed hæc omittamus, quæ noſtri per jocum potiùs, quàm ſeriò
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              dixerunt; ad ſeria igitur & gravia, quæ nobis non deſunt, veniendum eſt:
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              illud inprimis maximi ponderis eſſe videtur, quod in hypotheſi noſtra
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              (ſic eam diſputan di gratia deinceps appellabo) per ſimpliciſſimum eum­
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              que proprium motum omnia explicemus, ablegatis alienis motibus,
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              illoque præſertim, quem raptus vocant, primi ſcilicet mobilis, quo ab Ortu </s>
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