Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 2: Opera geometrica. Opera astronomica. Varia de optica
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              <pb o="690" file="0430" n="449" rhead="CHRISTIANI HUGENII COSMOTH. L. I."/>
            animantium ſobolem eſſe veriſimillimum ſit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9378" xml:space="preserve">res mirabilis,
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            atque ab omni ævo incognita.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9380" xml:space="preserve">Jam vero poſtquam hæc omnia accumulavimus Telluris
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0430-01" xlink:href="note-0430-01a" xml:space="preserve">Illa omnia
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              veriſimiliter
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              non extare
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              in Planetis,
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              ſed aliis æque
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              dignis repen-
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              di.</note>
            incolarum inventa, putemus fieri quidem poſſe, ut quædam
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            eorum etiam apud Planetarios extent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9381" xml:space="preserve">credibile tamen eſſe
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            maximam partem eorum illis ignorari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9382" xml:space="preserve">At iis quæ non ha-
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            bent rependendis æque multa, pulchraque & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9383" xml:space="preserve">utilia, admira-
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            tione digna iis tributa eſſe oportet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9384" xml:space="preserve">Quanquam igitur ibi
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            terrarum aliquos ratione præditos, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9385" xml:space="preserve">Geometras, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9386" xml:space="preserve">Muſi-
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            cos reperiri probabilibus argumentis oſtenderimus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9387" xml:space="preserve">in ſo-
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            cietate communitateque viventes, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9388" xml:space="preserve">manibus pedibuſque in-
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            ſtructos, tectiſque & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9389" xml:space="preserve">mœnibus munitos: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9390" xml:space="preserve">non tamen dubi-
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            tandum eſt, quin & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9391" xml:space="preserve">formæ, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9392" xml:space="preserve">rerum quas agunt novitate,
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            mirabile ſupra quam dici poſſit futurum ſit ſpectaculum, ſi
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            quis Mercurius, aut potens Genius eò nos deducat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9393" xml:space="preserve">Sed
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            cum ejus itineris conficiendi ſpes omnis adempta ſit, id u-
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            num tamen, quod poſſumus inveſtigare non pigebit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9394" xml:space="preserve">qua-
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            lis nempe cæleſtium rerum facies ſeſe offerat, in unoquoque
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            iſtorum globorum vitam agentibus, cum ad eam hoc quo-
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            que pertineat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9395" xml:space="preserve">Simul vero & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9396" xml:space="preserve">de præſtantia cujuſque, tum
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            ob magnitudinem, tum ob adjunctum comitum lunarum nu-
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            merum, quædam ſcitu digna referemus, ac ſtellarum deni-
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            que inerrantium incredibilem diſtantiam nova ratione in-
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            dagabimus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9397" xml:space="preserve">Sed à longa attentaque meditatione requieſce-
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            mus hic paulum, finemque huic Libro imponemus.</s>
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