Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            non pro magno Naturæ miraculo habetur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6142" xml:space="preserve">Illud eſt in Amianto
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            fortaſſe ſingulare, certè rarum, quod lapis cum ſit, in ſila diui-
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            ditur, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6143" xml:space="preserve">, quemadmodum lana aut linum, *lauatur, pectitur, ne-*
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            *tur, texitur,* vt laudatus nuper Matthiolus obſeruat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6144" xml:space="preserve">vulgus au-
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            tem quaſi lineam telam videns miratur non comburi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6145" xml:space="preserve">ſi lapidem
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            putaret, quamuis extenuatum, ceſſaret admiratio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6146" xml:space="preserve">Asbeſtini
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            verò lini mentionem facere non ſum auſus, quia, quæ de illo nar-
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            rantur, fabulam nonnihil redolere videntur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6147" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6148" xml:space="preserve">ſuſpicari licet
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            mappas igne mundatas non ex alio filo, quàm ex Amianto fuiſſe
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            contextas. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6149" xml:space="preserve">Cur autem lino illi *Asbeſtino* cognomen ſit, quaſi *inex-*
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            *tinguibili,* cum neque accendi poſſit, non video; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6150" xml:space="preserve">niſi fortè etiam
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            immortalem dixeris eum, qui nondum natus eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6151" xml:space="preserve">An per antiphra-
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            ſim, quemadmodum Bellum quia minimè bellum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6152" xml:space="preserve">Parcæ quia
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            nemini parcunt, Asbeſtinum, hoc eſt ineetinguibile, dicitur li-
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            num, quòd ſemper eſt ignis expers? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6153" xml:space="preserve">Aptè quidem, congruenter-
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            que Asbeſto, hoc eſt inextincto, nomen fecerunt lapidi, quem
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            Plinius lib.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6154" xml:space="preserve">37. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6155" xml:space="preserve">cap.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6156" xml:space="preserve">10. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6157" xml:space="preserve">memorat, ferrei coloris, in Arcadiæ mon-
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            tibus naſcenti, qui cum ignem non habeat proprium, tamen ſic ar-
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            det, vt non poſſit extingui: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6158" xml:space="preserve">de quo cecinit Marbodeus, *Nam*
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            *ſemel accenſus conceptos detinetignes, Extinguique nequit collucens*
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            *perpete flammâ:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6159" xml:space="preserve">* & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6160" xml:space="preserve">S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6161" xml:space="preserve">Auguſtinus lib.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6162" xml:space="preserve">21. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6163" xml:space="preserve">de Ciu.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6164" xml:space="preserve">Dei cap.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6165" xml:space="preserve">5 ſcripſit
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            *Asbeſton Arcadiæ lapidem propterea ſic vocari, quòd accenſus ſemel*
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            *iam non poſſit extingui.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6167" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6168" xml:space="preserve">Quid ſi linum Asbeſtinum eiuſdem eſſet naturæ cum her-
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            bâ illâ apud Tartaros, quam ex Atlante Sinico paulò antè com-
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            memorâſti? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6169" xml:space="preserve">Quamquam, vt ego pariter ſubuereor, ab impoſto-
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            re quopiam efficta ad emungendos argento ſimpliciores fabula de
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            lino Asbeſtino inter diras ſerpentes nato in deſertis, aduſtiſque
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            Indiæ remotiſſimæ locis inualuit, quia nemo prudens adeò curioſus
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            eſſe potuit, vt tanto periculo, tantiſque incommodis vellet im-
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            poſturam detegere inueſtigando, num verè ibi creſcat linum huiuſ-
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            modi, vt certior fiat, Vtrùm exillo, an verò ex Amianto lapi-
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            de deductum fuerit filum, quod ad texendas mappas offerebatur.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6170" xml:space="preserve">Verùm, vt vt eſt, vnâ comprehenſione omnia complector. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6171" xml:space="preserve">Illa
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            Ignem omnino reijciunt ita, vt nec in flammam, nec in prunas
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            accendantur, quæ plurimum conſtant ſale fixo & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6172" xml:space="preserve">terrâ, minimum-
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            que habent Sulphuris cum Spiritibus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6173" xml:space="preserve">humore permiſti, quo par-
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            tes conglutinantur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6174" xml:space="preserve">illa verò, quæ non parum habent </s>
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