Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam; Tom. 1
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s117" xml:space="preserve">QUi variorum Philoſophorum circa Phyſicam ſcri-
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            pta contulerit, ſcientias omnino diverſas hoc
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            nomine deſignari, in dubium vocare vix pote-
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            rit, dum omnes ſe veram cauſam Phænome-
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            nôn naturalium tradituros pollicentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s118" xml:space="preserve">Nil mirum, Ma-
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            theſis fallere neſcia non ſemper contentionem omnem a ſe
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            removere potuit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s120" xml:space="preserve">Sed ne nos ſententiarum varietas averitatis inquiſitione
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            abducat, ſtudio & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s121" xml:space="preserve">labore, quantumvis abſcondita, in lu-
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            cem protrahitur veritas, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s122" xml:space="preserve">qui flagranti hujus amore ra-
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            pitur, ſi errores non omnes, quod minime humanum,
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            evitet, difficilius tamen in illos cadit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s124" xml:space="preserve">Caute in Phyſicis procedendum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s125" xml:space="preserve">circa Intelligentiæ ſu-
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            premæ opera verſatur hæc ſcientia; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s126" xml:space="preserve">tradit</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s127" xml:space="preserve">quas, dum primordia rerum
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            Pangeret, omniparens Leges violare Creator
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            Noluit, æternique operis fundamina fixit:</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s129" xml:space="preserve">quomodo hiſce Legibus univerſa rerum congeries rega-
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            tur, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s130" xml:space="preserve">, quomodo ordo, nunquam ſatis mirandus, qui-
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            bus omnia peraguntur, iiſdem Legibus in Mundo ſervetur,
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            explicat.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s132" xml:space="preserve">Cavendum ne fictum pro vero admittamus, eoipſoul-
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            teriori examini januam claudimus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s133" xml:space="preserve">nulla vera Phænome-
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            nôn explicatio ex falſo principio deduci poteſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s134" xml:space="preserve">mentiſque
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            humanæ figmentum diſcere, aut Intelligentiæ ſapientiſſi-
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            mæ opus perpendere quantum intereſt? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s135" xml:space="preserve">Cumque ſapien-
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            tiæ divinæ inveſtigatio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s136" xml:space="preserve">cum hac ſemper conjuncta ve-
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            neratio, ſcopus Phyſici eſſe debeat, hîc ex fictis </s>
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