Musschenbroek, Petrus van, Physicae experimentales, et geometricae de magnete, tuborum capillarium vitreorumque speculorum attractione, magnitudine terrae, cohaerentia corporum firmorum dissertationes: ut et ephemerides meteorologicae ultraiectinae

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            neque hæc viciſſitudinibus iterum erepta eſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s183" xml:space="preserve">quippe ſimulac alia ſu-
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            perbiori induta ornatu in Scenam prodit, prior proſcribitur atque ſpreta
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            jacet: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s184" xml:space="preserve">Quam apprime ingenioſus Buffierius in Tract. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s185" xml:space="preserve">de primis veri-
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            tatibus part. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s186" xml:space="preserve">5, Hypotheſium Phyſicarum Auctores comparat cum
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            Romannis, qui quidem id conantur quod veroſimile eſt, nequaquam
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            id, quod veritatem comprehendit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s187" xml:space="preserve">qui eo plus placent, quo magis aliena
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            ab exſpectatione & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s188" xml:space="preserve">ratione noſtra, imo quæ nonnunquam dementiæ ſunt
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            propinqua, ponunt, modo contradictionem non involvant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s189" xml:space="preserve">ſed ecquis
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            ratione præditus ejusmodi fabulas ſibi pro veritate obtrudi ſine-
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            ret in hiſtoriis? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s190" xml:space="preserve">quonam igitur meliori jure in Phyſicis? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s191" xml:space="preserve">idcirco ma-
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            gnus Verulamius Hypotheſes Philoſophorum non niſi cerebella ho-
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            minum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s192" xml:space="preserve">potentes nugas vocavit, atque oravit & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s193" xml:space="preserve">obſecravit homi-
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            nes, ut animos ſubmitterent, ſcientias quærerent rejecta libidine fin-
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            gendi, ipſamque potius Naturam obſervarent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s194" xml:space="preserve">Aurea hercle monita!
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            eaque ſequenda eſſe, ſi unquam aliquid certi cognoſcere in Phyſicis
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            conamur, fatentur omnes penetrantioris judicii Sapientes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s195" xml:space="preserve">Pauci ta-
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            men hæc tam bene obſervarunt, quam Iſacus Newtonus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s196" xml:space="preserve">Niewen-
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            tytius. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s197" xml:space="preserve">Hi Hypotheſes, quantum potuerunt, rejecerunt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s198" xml:space="preserve">Quam pul-
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            cre igitur hoſce Philoſophos aut evolverunt, aut intellexerunt illi, qui
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            iis ubivis Hypotheſes adſcribunt, in quibus eorum demonſtrationes
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            fundatas arbitrantur? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s199" xml:space="preserve">ſed ignoſcendum eſt aliquid iis Heroibus, qui
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            Matheſeos ignari, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s200" xml:space="preserve">ideo eam exoſi, atque ex Phyſica, veluti
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            Scientiam inutilem proſcribentes, ſcripta tantæ penetrationis in arca-
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            na Naturæ, ne quidem legere, multo minus intelligere potuerunt;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s201" xml:space="preserve">ut hi tamen videantur Newtoniana legiſſe, nonnullos interpretes de-
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            ſcribunt, quorum verba hinc inde paulum immutando, turpes con-
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            tra prima Geometriæ fundamenta immiſcent errores, quo opinantur
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            jactitantque ſe clare conſcribere & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s202" xml:space="preserve">emendare, quod Geometras reddere
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            obſcuriſſimum, criminantur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s203" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi hi in Newtonianis verſati fo-
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            rent ſcriptis, cognoviſſent quid quondam Anno 1672. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s204" xml:space="preserve">Philoſophus
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            reſpondit Pardieſio, qui Theoriam Lucis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s205" xml:space="preserve">Colorum Hypotheſin vo-
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            caverat, ſe id amice habere, ſiquidem ipſi nondum conſtabat, ſed alio
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            tamen conſilio ſe id propoſuiſſe, cum nihil aliud continere videtur,
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            quam proprietates quasdam Lucis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s206" xml:space="preserve">confer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s207" xml:space="preserve">Philoſoph. </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s209" xml:space="preserve">No. </s>
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            84. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s211" xml:space="preserve">pag. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s212" xml:space="preserve">4039. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s213" xml:space="preserve">qualem idcirco, hoc ictu ſapientior factus, Pardie-
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            ſius palinodiam cecinerit, vide ſis in Philoſoph. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s214" xml:space="preserve">Transact. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s215" xml:space="preserve">No. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s216" xml:space="preserve">85. </s>
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