Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 2: Opera geometrica. Opera astronomica. Varia de optica

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8831" xml:space="preserve">Porro quæri poteſt de animalibus, tam ratione utentibus
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            quàm brutis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8832" xml:space="preserve">atque etiam de ſtirpibus arboribuſque; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8833" xml:space="preserve">an, quæ
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            iſthic naſcuntur, noſtris magnitudine reſpondeant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8834" xml:space="preserve">Nam
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0410-01" xlink:href="note-0410-01a" xml:space="preserve">Magnitudi-
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              nem corpo-
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              rum in Pla-
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              netis exiſten-
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              tium ex Pla-
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              netarum
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              magnitudine
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              non recte
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              nonjici.</note>
            ſi hæc ipſorum globorum mole natura metiatur, eſſent in
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            Jove ac Saturno animalia quædam decies aut quindecies al-
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            tiora Elephantis, aut tantundem longitudine balænas noſtras
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            ſuperantia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8835" xml:space="preserve">Tum illa quæ ratione prædita ſunt, gigantum
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            corpora haberent noſtris comparata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8836" xml:space="preserve">Qua quidem in re ni-
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            hil video quod vel mirum ſit, vel fieri nequeat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8837" xml:space="preserve">Nulla ta-
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            men ratione cogimur ut re ipſa id ita eſſe credamus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8838" xml:space="preserve">quan-
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            doquidem in multis rebus apparet non iis menſuræ regulis
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            naturam ſe obſtrinxiſſe quæ noſtra opinione convenientiores
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            videbantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8839" xml:space="preserve">Veluti quod ipſorum globorum Planetariorum
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            moles nequaquam pro diſtantia eorum a Sole conſtituta ſit,
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            cum Mars manifeſto minor ſit Venere, etſi remotior: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8840" xml:space="preserve">cum-
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            que converſio Jovis, ſuper axe ſuo, 10 horis peragatur;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8841" xml:space="preserve">Telluris vero, tantò minoris, impendat horas 24. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8842" xml:space="preserve">Poſſet
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            vero dubitari, cum proportionem in his ita negligat Natu-
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            ra, an non fortaſſe pumiliones quidam ſint incolæ Planeta-
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            rum, aut ranis muribuſve non majores. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8843" xml:space="preserve">Sed oſtendam poſt-
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            ea cur id nequaquam conſentaneum putandum ſit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8845" xml:space="preserve">Aliud quoque dubium exoriri poſſet, utrum genus unum
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            tantum animalium quæ rationem ſortita ſint, an plura in
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            Planetis ſingulis reperiantur, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8846" xml:space="preserve">num diſpari rationis vi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8847" xml:space="preserve">Ac
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            profecto tale quid in Terra hac noſtra contigiſſe cernimus.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8848" xml:space="preserve">Non de iis nunc dico quæ figuram hominum præferunt; </s>
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            (etſi de his quoque id non abſurde dici poſſit) ſed ſi quo-
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            rundam è beſtiarum genere, ſenſum intellectumque ſpecte-
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            mus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8850" xml:space="preserve">veluti canum, ſimiarum, caſtorum, elephantorum; </s>
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0410-02" xlink:href="note-0410-02a" xml:space="preserve">In
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              Planetis
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              ut in Terra
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              varia eſſe
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              animalia
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              quibus ratio
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              competat.</note>
            imo & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8852" xml:space="preserve">avium quarundam, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8853" xml:space="preserve">apicularum, ea talia ſunt, ut
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            nequaquam folum genus hominum rationis particeps dicen-
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            dum videatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8854" xml:space="preserve">Apparet enim quoddam hujus inſtar in iſtis
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            omnibus, quod, abſque ulla inſtitutione aut experientia, iis
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            ineſſe deprehenditur.</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">Et inter ea
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          Hominibus
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          @milia.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8856" xml:space="preserve">Attamen dubitari nequit quin longè præcellat hominum
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            intelligentia & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8857" xml:space="preserve">ingenium, quippe innumeris rebus </s>
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