Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            vrgeor, vt nouam naturam gigni admittam, ſi quando
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            ardeat.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5639" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5640" xml:space="preserve">Similes in anguſtias conijcere Paulum quendam, altiora
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            myſteria nimis curiosè ſcrutantem, tentauit S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5641" xml:space="preserve">Iſidorus Peluſiota
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            lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5642" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5643" xml:space="preserve">epiſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5644" xml:space="preserve">100. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5645" xml:space="preserve">*Ignis ille*; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5646" xml:space="preserve">ait, *à quo artes ſcaturiunt, non mo-*
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            *dò à ferro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5647" xml:space="preserve">ære, ac lapidibus, ſed etiam ab aquis, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5648" xml:space="preserve">lignis,*
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            *naturæ vi exilit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5649" xml:space="preserve">Hoc ergo miraculum mihi expone: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5650" xml:space="preserve">ligno ne*
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            *inſitus eſt? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5651" xml:space="preserve">quin igitur illum abſumit? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5652" xml:space="preserve">At non inſitus eſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5653" xml:space="preserve">quo-*
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            *nam igitur modo ex eo creatur? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5654" xml:space="preserve">Cum igitur ignis, ſinè quo nihit*
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            *penè, quod alicuius pretij ſit, homines machinantur (nam & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5655" xml:space="preserve">fri-*
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            *gori ſuccurrit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5656" xml:space="preserve">tenebraspropulſat, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5657" xml:space="preserve">ad omnem artem ac ſcien-*
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            *tiam adiumento eſt) nemo explicare queat, quonam pacto in lignis*
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            *quidem deliteſcit, nec tamen ea abſumit, cum autem foras pro-*
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            *ſilierit, materias eas, ex quibus procreatus eſt, abſumit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5658" xml:space="preserve">deſine,*
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            *quæſo, ea perſcrutari, quæ nec comprehendi poſſunt, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5659" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5660" xml:space="preserve">* Multa
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            ſunt, fateor, in Naturâ per ſe quidem admirabilia, ſed quia aſſi-
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            duitate quotidianâ, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5661" xml:space="preserve">conſuetudine oculorum aſſueſcunt ani-
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            mi, mirari deſinimus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5662" xml:space="preserve">Huiuſmodi eſt in corporibus miſtis contra-
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            riarum naturarum complexio, quæ ſuas inuicem vires retundunt,
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            tranquillamque pacem tandiu trahunt, dum nexu permanente
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            cohærent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5663" xml:space="preserve">ſed tumultus oritur, vbi primùm natura aliqua domi-
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            nationem, aut libertatem affectat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5664" xml:space="preserve">Ignis igitur, ſi ſubſtantiam
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            ipſam ſpectemus, ligno eſt inſitus, feruida quidem natura, ſed,
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            quandiu incolume eſt lignum, nondum feruens. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5665" xml:space="preserve">Quia verò ignis
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            non eſt noſtris vſibus aptus, niſi ferueat, atque Ignis nomine au-
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            dito vulgus illicò intelligit Ignem hunc miniſtratorium, qui ſine
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            ardore non eſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5666" xml:space="preserve">idcirco cum vulgaris hic ignis ad ligni naturam
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            conſtituendam non pertineat, ſed illam potiùs corrumpat, in li-
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            gno non inſidere ignem dicimus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5667" xml:space="preserve">tunc autem ſolùm igne corripl
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            ,
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            quando inſita ligno ſubſtantia feruida feruere incipit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5668" xml:space="preserve">Neque
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            magis pugnantia loquitur affirmans Ignem non ſemper ardere,
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            quàm ſi dixerit naturam mobilitate præditam, nonniſi amoto
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            impedimento, commoueri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5669" xml:space="preserve">Quapropter quæcunque conflagrant,
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            non alio igne (quaſi naturâ recens genitâ) exardeſcunt præter
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            eum, quem in viſceribus fouebant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5670" xml:space="preserve">à quo tamen non abſumeban-
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            tur, quia nondum concepto feruore agita batur, ſed inductis in per-
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            miſtione compedibus, aliarum naturarum complexione detinebatur,
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            ne feruidam naturam proderet.</s>
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