Clavius, Christoph, Gnomonices libri octo, in quibus non solum horologiorum solariu[m], sed aliarum quo[quam] rerum, quae ex gnomonis umbra cognosci possunt, descriptiones geometricè demonstrantur

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head5" xml:space="preserve">STEPHANO POLONIAE
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          REGI POTENTISSIMO,
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          MAGNOQ. LITHVANIAE DVCI, ETC.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head6" style="it" xml:space="preserve">CHRISTOPHORVS CLAVIVS SOCIET AT IS IESV
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          PERPETVAM FELICITATEM.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5" xml:space="preserve">QVOD meum hoc opus de Gnomonica tibi
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            potiſſimum dicare conſtituerim, Rex poten-
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            tiſſime, non dubito, quin aliqui minus pro-
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            bent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6" xml:space="preserve">Neque enim, inquient, Regem publi-
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            cis rebus gerendis intentum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7" xml:space="preserve">multo minus
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            hoc tempore grauiſſimi belli curis occupa-
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            tum hæc priuatorum hominum ſtudia dece-
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            re. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8" xml:space="preserve">Ego vero longealio, ac meliore, ni fal-
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            lor, iudicio, quàm illi, neque vlli magis hoc
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            munus, quàm Regi, neque Regum vlli potius, quàm tibi, neque vllo
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            commodius, quàm hoc tempore, conuenire ſtartui. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9" xml:space="preserve">Nam Regem qui-
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            dem, quemadmodum vtraque negocia, pacis ac belli, procurare, ita
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            quæ vtroque tempore vigent, amplecti ſtudia, ac promouere par eſt.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10" xml:space="preserve">Tibi vero, qui vtraque gloria ita flores, vt ad militarem peritiam, qua
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            excellis, hanc etiam laudem adiunxeris, quòd hominibus literatis ita
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            faues, vt foueas mirifice ſtudia ipſa literarum, ita diſciplinas omnes co-
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            lis, non modo vt ingenium, ſed ipſas etiam excolas, æquum eſt, vt
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            quemadmodum deuictarum vrbium atque arcium claues tuæ virtutis
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            argumenta deferuntur, ſic eriam deuinctorum hominum lucubratio-
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            nes ac labores offerantur, monumenta nonnulla doctrinæ tuæ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11" xml:space="preserve">De-
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            nique hoc belli tempore nihilà tuis negotijs abhorrere videtur, ſi ha-
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            beas, vnde tibi detur occaſio recordandi, quanta ſit habenda ratio in
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            bello temporum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12" xml:space="preserve">horarum, quanti referat ſuo quidque tempore ac
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            loco exequi, ſuis quæq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13" xml:space="preserve">horis peragere: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14" xml:space="preserve">ſitq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s15" xml:space="preserve">tibi frequenter ob oculos,
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            motum illum Solis, quo tempora metimur, atque diſtinguimus, nun-
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            quam intermitti, perpetuam eſſe temporis fugam, quod ſemel elapſum
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            eſt, redire nunquam, minimo momento magnas plerunque rerum in-
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            clinationes fieri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16" xml:space="preserve">Ex quorum obſeruatione manauit, opinor, diuinum
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            illud Alexandri magni conſilium, μηδὲν ἀναβαλλόμενος, quo vno id con-
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            ſecutus eſſe dicitur diligentiſſimus Imperator, prope vt plures victorias
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            reportarit, quàm pugnas inierit, plura bella confecerit, quàm prælia
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            commiſerit, plures vrbes ceperit, quàm tentarit, plures hoſtes fuderit,
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            quàm nouerit, plura loca occuparit, quàm obierit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17" xml:space="preserve">Quo te vti conſilio
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18" xml:space="preserve">felicitas haud multò minor, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19" xml:space="preserve">virtus certe maior, quàm illius, </s>
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