DelMonte, Guidubaldo - Mechanicorvm Liber

DelMonte, Guidubaldo, Mechanicorvm Liber, 1577

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ris habent, perſoluere domino compulſa. hinc
magnas arborum, & marmorum moles duobus in
contrarias partes diſtrahentibus vectibus diremp-
ſimus; hinc militiæ in aggeribus extruendis, in
conſerenda manu, in opugnando, propugnan-
doq; loca infinitæ ferè redundarunt vtilitates;
hinc demum Lignatores, Lapicidæ, Marmorarij
Vinitores, Olearij, Vnguentarij, Ferrarij, Auri
fices, Metallici, Chirurgi, Tonſores, Piſtores, Sar
tores, omnesque deniq; opifices beneficiarij, tot, tan
taq; vitæ humanæ ſuppeditarunt commoda. Eant
nunc noui logodedali quidam mechanicorum
contemptores, perfricent frontem, ſi quae ha-
bent, & ignobilitatem, atquè inutilitatem falſò
criminari deſinant: quòd ſi & adhuc id minimè
velint, eos quæſo in inſcitia ſua relinquamus:
Ariſtotelemquè potius philoſophorum cory-
phæum imitemur, cuius mechanici amoris ardo
rem acutiſſimæ illæ mechanicæ quæſtiones poſte
ris traditæ ſatis declarant: qua quidem laude
Platonem magnificè ſuperauit; qui (vt teſtatur
Plutarcus) Architam, & Eudoxum mechanicæ
vtilitatem impenſius colentes ab inſtituto deter
ruit; quòd nobiliſſimam philoſophorum poſſeſ-
ſionem in vulgus indicarent, et publicarent; &
velut arcana philoſophiæ myſteria proderent.
res ſanè meo quidem iudicio proſus vituperan

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