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            bus, aloë. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8620" xml:space="preserve">In quibus rurſus ea quam ſcimus, minus diſſi-
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            milium eſt copia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8621" xml:space="preserve">Ad hæc propagandi viæ variæ inſpician-
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            tur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8622" xml:space="preserve">velut ex ſeminibus, nucleis, taleis, inſitione, bulbis.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8623" xml:space="preserve">Quibus omnibus nihilo pauciora, aut minus miranda, in
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            Planetarum terris reperiri, exiſtimandum ſit.</s>
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          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8625" xml:space="preserve">Sed quod in hac diſquiſitione præcipuum eſt, plurimam-
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            que jucunditatem habet, nondum attigiſſe mihi videor;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8626" xml:space="preserve">quamdiu nullos in terris illis ſpectatores poſui, qui tot rebus
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0401-01" xlink:href="note-0401-01a" xml:space="preserve">In Planetis
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              eſſe animan-
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              tia, quæ ra-
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              tione utan-
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              tur.</note>
            creatis fruantur, pulchritudinemque, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8627" xml:space="preserve">varietatem earum,
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            admirentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8628" xml:space="preserve">Et video quidem, neminem fere eorum, qui-
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            bus vel leviter hæc meditari contigit, dubitaſſe quin ſpecta-
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            tores aliqui in Planetis collocandi ſint: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8629" xml:space="preserve">non quidem homi-
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            nes nobis ſimiles, ſed animantia tamen ratione utentia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8630" xml:space="preserve">Nem-
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            pe iis viſum eſt, qualemcunque terrarum iſtarum ornatum,
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            velut fruſtra, nulloque fine aut conſilio, fore procreatum,
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            ſi non hoc propoſitum fuiſſet, ut ab aliquo cerneretur, qui
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            intelligere ejus elegantiam poſſet, fructumque ſimul percipe-
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            re, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8631" xml:space="preserve">ſummi opificis admirari ſapientiam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8632" xml:space="preserve">Ego vero non
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            hoc præcipuum argumentum habeo, cur animal rationis par-
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            ticeps Planetas incolere exiſtimem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8633" xml:space="preserve">Quid ſi enim dicamus
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            ipſum Deum ſpectare quæ effecit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8634" xml:space="preserve">(alia quidem ratione quam
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            nos, ſed videre eum quis dubitet qui oculos fabricatus eſt;)
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8635" xml:space="preserve">iiſque delectari, neque præterea quidquam requiri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8636" xml:space="preserve">Nonne
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            enim ob hoc ipſum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8637" xml:space="preserve">homines condidit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8638" xml:space="preserve">quicquid conti-
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            net mundus univerſus? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8639" xml:space="preserve">Itaque quod præcipue me movet, ut
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            rationabile animal in Planetis non deeſſe credam, hoc eſt,
              <lb/>
            quod nimia Terræ noſtræ præ cæteris illis eſſet præſtantia ac
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            nobilitas, ſi ſola animal haberet tam longe cæteris omnibus
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            animalibus, nedum ſtirpibus præcellens; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8640" xml:space="preserve">in quo ineſt divi-
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            num quiddam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8641" xml:space="preserve">quo cognoſcit, intelligit, res innumeras
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            memoria complectitur, veri expendendi judicandique capax
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            eſt, cujus denique gratia quicquid terra progenerat paratum
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            eſſe videtur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8642" xml:space="preserve">Omnia enim in uſus ſuos vertit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8643" xml:space="preserve">Lignis, la-
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            pidibus, metallis, domos exſtruit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8644" xml:space="preserve">Avibus, piſcibus, peco-
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            re & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8645" xml:space="preserve">herbis veſcitur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8646" xml:space="preserve">Aquæ & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8647" xml:space="preserve">ventorum commodis ad na-
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            vigandum utitur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8648" xml:space="preserve">ex florum odore pulchriſque </s>
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