Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686
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            celeriter agitentur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8227" xml:space="preserve">ideò miſſiles ignes ne extinguantur in motu, ſi-
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            militer ex materiâ ſulphureâ aut bituminoſâ componi oportet.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8228" xml:space="preserve">Flauius Vopiſcus in Vitâ Aureliani recenſet epiſtolam ab eodem ad
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            Mucaporem miſſam, vbi inter cœteros conatus contra Palmyram
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            vrbem, *Ignes etiam,* inquit, *tormentis iaciuntur.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8229" xml:space="preserve">* De ignibus
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            pariter in hoſtiles naues immiſſis memini me plura legiſſe apud
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            Ioannem Schefferum de Militia Nauali lib.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8230" xml:space="preserve">2.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8231" xml:space="preserve">cap.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8232" xml:space="preserve">7. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8233" xml:space="preserve">Hos verò ignes
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            accenſos fuiſſe ex materiâ bituminoſâ, argumento eſt, quod apud
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            Perſas, vt author eſt Ammianus Marcellinus, bitumine aut na-
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            phthâ inungebantur tela, quæ in hoſtilia tecta eiaculantes mirum
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            incendium ſuſcitabant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8234" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8235" xml:space="preserve">apud Zecuruas Indiæ populos, vt ſcripſit
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            Aldrouand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8236" xml:space="preserve">de Miner.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8237" xml:space="preserve">lib.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8238" xml:space="preserve">3.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8239" xml:space="preserve">cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8240" xml:space="preserve">15.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8241" xml:space="preserve">pag.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8242" xml:space="preserve">392. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8243" xml:space="preserve">reperitur bitumen li-
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            quidum, quo telorum cuſpides ex arundine paratorum liniunt, & </s>
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            accenſa in hoſtes eiaculantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8245" xml:space="preserve">Erat igitur eiuſmodi flamma, quæ
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            ex aëris occurſu, licèt retrorſum flecteretur, non tamen omni-
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            no impediri poterat, quin noua ſubinde exurgeret, ob mul-
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            titudinem ſulphurearum particularum iam ſolutarum, quæ exilire
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            poterant multâ vi, nequicquam repugnante aëre.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8247" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8248" xml:space="preserve">Hinc videtis, quare flatus ex prunâ, aut ex ardente
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            longiore ellychnio (imitatur enim prunam) excitet flammam;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8249" xml:space="preserve">quia ſcilicet erumpentes languidiùs ſulphureas particulas, quin
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            ſecum alias raperent, flatus ingerit in carbonem accenſum (ſic
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            videmus ex accenſâ carbonis particulâ igniculos ſerpere propulſos
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            à flatu in reliquas particulas, adeò vt totus carbo incendatur) il-
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            læque cœteris iam intus tumultuantibus additæ agitantur vehe-
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            mentiùs, atque confertim erumpunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8250" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8251" xml:space="preserve">quidem cum ſtrepitu; </s>
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            flamma nimirum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8253" xml:space="preserve">ſponte ſuâ commota, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8254" xml:space="preserve">à flatu impulſa mo-
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            uetur velociùs, ac aërem findens ſonum illum ſeu ſibilum edit,
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            quem etiam in fabrorum vſtrinis obſeruamus, immò & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8255" xml:space="preserve">in candelâ
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            poſt extinctam flammam, ſi quis ellychnium citiùs extinguere
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            voluerit flatu exturbante igniculos, ne diutiùs perſeuerans exarſio
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            fumi fœtorem excitet moleſtiorem; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8256" xml:space="preserve">nam exturbati igniculi, licèt
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            in flammam non abeant, velociori tamen motu aërem findunt, & </s>
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            ſtrepitum edunt aliquanto maiorem eo, quem flatus ipſe efficit in-
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            cidens in corpus ſolidum, à quo diuiditur.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8259" xml:space="preserve">Dand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8260" xml:space="preserve">Etiam, cùmin aquâ extinguitur accenſus titio, aut fer-
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            rum ignitum, exauditur friritus igniculorum, qui per a quam cir-
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            cumcurſantes, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8261" xml:space="preserve">ex eâ auolantes, illius etiam particulas </s>
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