Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            nonlucent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14481" xml:space="preserve">pluvia autem aqua imbutus mons ignem in ſinu fo-
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            vens, illam ſolvit in vaporem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14482" xml:space="preserve">Quapropter etiamſi aqua in Æt-
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            næam fornacem per intervalla decidens vim haberet excitandi
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            novas flammas, cùm ſoluta in vaporem aſcenderet immiſta ig-
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            neis expirationibus, non continuò aqua eſſet ignium nutrimen-
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            tum, ſed fumi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14483" xml:space="preserve">Hoctamen non nihil faceret ad incendij diutur-
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            nitatem longiorem; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14484" xml:space="preserve">materiæ ſiquidem pars, quæ priùs ardebat,
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            compreſſis ab aqua incidente igniculis, interturbato tantiſper
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            fervore ardere deſinit, donec humorem excuſſerit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14485" xml:space="preserve">cúmque id
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            per vices contingat, diuturnior eſt conflagratio; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14486" xml:space="preserve">ſicut diutiùs
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            peregrinatur viator, qui plures moras motui interſerat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14487" xml:space="preserve">Cæte-
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            rùm ad explicandam hujuſmodi incendiorum perennitatem fru-
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            ſtrà videntur evocari ex proximo mariaquæ quandoquidem & </s>
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            in locis ab æquore valde remotis ignes è tellure erumpunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14489" xml:space="preserve">Præ-
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            terquam quod, ſi ex mari in fornacem ipſam influeret aqua, à
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            ſummo crateris labro ad materiam exardeſcentem tantum eſſet
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            intervallum, quantum ipſius altitudinem metitur perpendicu-
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            lum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14490" xml:space="preserve">id quod (ut in aliquibus fortaſſe verum ſit) non omnibus
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            contingere probabile eſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14491" xml:space="preserve">nam in altiſſimis Americæ montibus,
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            Cordillera vocant, quatuordecim montes ignivomi enumeran-
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            turab Ovalle in Relatione Regni Chilenſis, nec niſi temerè ſin-
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            gulorum materiam ſuperficiei maris reſpondentem ſtatuere-
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            mus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14492" xml:space="preserve">Eſto Polybius apud Strabonem lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14493" xml:space="preserve">6. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14494" xml:space="preserve">pag. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14495" xml:space="preserve">550. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14496" xml:space="preserve">aſſerat in In-
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            ſula Hiera maximo crateri labrum ade ſſe rotundum ad ſtadia quinque,
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            in magnit udinemque paulatim conduci ad pedum quinquaginta diame-
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            trum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14497" xml:space="preserve">Cujus quidem profundit atem uſ que ad mare ſtadij ſpatio eſſe, ſi-
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            cutin ventorum languore licet intueri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14498" xml:space="preserve">Viſus eſt autem Strabo de his
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            ſubdubitare, addens, Quod ſihæc ipſa credibilia cenſueris, fortè fi-
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            dem non abrogaveris ijs, quæ de Empedocle vulgò fabulantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14499" xml:space="preserve">Verùm
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            quò proclivius eſt aliena refellere, (apertè, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14500" xml:space="preserve">ingenuè loquor)
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            eò mihi operoſius eſt probabilia adſtruere, ut congruam alendis
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            in multa ſæcula ignibus materiam inveniſſe me profitear.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s14502" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14503" xml:space="preserve">Nullus dubito, quin ſulphuream, atque bitumine re-
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            fertam materiam, qua abundare loca hujuſmodi conflagratio-
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            nibus obnoxia paulò antè dicebamus, exiſtimes idoneum eſſe
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            ignibus nutrimentum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14504" xml:space="preserve">ſed in eo verti difficultatis cardinem in-
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            telligis, quomodo tam diturnis ardoribus ſufficere potuerit.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14505" xml:space="preserve">Ignis eſt natura curioſos temerè propiùs accedentes repellens; </s>
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            propterea in caminos illos introſpicere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14507" xml:space="preserve">quid ibi contingat ve-
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            ſtigare non licet velijs, quos ardens ſciendi cupiditas ſtimulat; </s>
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            multò minùs ſperandum id fuit à rudibus accolis, quibus </s>
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