Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 2: Opera geometrica. Opera astronomica. Varia de optica
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            lem eſſe impoſſibilem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4139" xml:space="preserve">Sed omnium maxime admiror, Cla-
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            riſſimum Virum non animadvertiſſe in 8. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4140" xml:space="preserve">definitione, Quan-
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            titates C, D, E, compoſitionem ingredientes, ſemper eſſe
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            eaſdem, nempe definitas & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4141" xml:space="preserve">invariabiles, ipſos autem termi-
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            nos A, B, eſſe indefinitos & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4142" xml:space="preserve">variabiles, nimirum in F,
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            G, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4143" xml:space="preserve">infinitos alios: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4144" xml:space="preserve">at quis eſt qui non videt Hugenii
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            {b2 m/a2 + ba} non minus eſſe indefinitam, quam ſunt ipſi termini?
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4145" xml:space="preserve">Deinde in Proœmio noſtræ Geometriæ Partis univerſalis,
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            ſic dico. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4146" xml:space="preserve">Alii objiciunt contra prop. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4147" xml:space="preserve">11. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4148" xml:space="preserve">ita: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4149" xml:space="preserve">ſi addatur
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            a
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            termino a
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            + a
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            b & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4150" xml:space="preserve">temino ba
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            + b
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            a, enervetur vis u-
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            triuſque demonſtrationis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4151" xml:space="preserve">Reſpondeo, a
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            eſſe quantitatem
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            indefinitam, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4152" xml:space="preserve">alias quantitates indefinitas præter ipſos
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            terminos convergentes compoſitionem non poſſe ingredi, quod
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            analyſtam latere non poteſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4153" xml:space="preserve">Eodem modo reſpondeo Huge-
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            nio {bbm/a2 + ab} eſſe quantitatem indefinitam, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4154" xml:space="preserve">ideo compoſitio-
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            nem non poſſe ingredi: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4155" xml:space="preserve">Si autem mihi objiciat, in ſeptima
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            me credidiſſe, {mae - mbe/ad - bd} fuiſſe quantitatem indefinitam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4156" xml:space="preserve">Re-
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            ſpondeo, etiamſi diviſio per a-b à me ſatis inconſideratè ne-
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            glecta ſit, apertè tamen conſtat, me hoc cognoviſſe, ex di-
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            verſitate methodorum, quibus utor in ſeptima & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4157" xml:space="preserve">decima,
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            quippe iſta particulari, in qua quantitatem illam quæro, & </s>
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            hac generali, in qua illam ſuppono; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4159" xml:space="preserve">nulla enim alia ratio
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            hujus diverſitatis excogitari poteſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4160" xml:space="preserve">quod etiam ex ipſis ſepti-
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            ma & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4161" xml:space="preserve">decima eſt manifeſtum, cum appellem ſemper termi-
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            nos convergentes quantitates indefinitas, hoc ipſo ſatis ſi-
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            gnificans, nullas alias quantitates indefinitas calculo in-
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            eſſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4163" xml:space="preserve">Semper credidi in rebus ſcientificis verba ita candidè eſſe
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            explicanda (ſi modo poſſibile ſit) ut diſcurſus nullum inclu-
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            dat abſurdum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4164" xml:space="preserve">at Hugenius fatis percipit, diſcurſum nihil
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            continere abſurdi, modò nulla quantitas indefinita præter i-
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            pſos terminos compoſitionem ingrediatur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4165" xml:space="preserve">judicat tamen abſ-
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            que omni ratione, me contrarium exiſtimaſſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4166" xml:space="preserve">libenter enim
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            optarem Hugenium aſſignaſſe locum, ubi aſſero, illam </s>
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