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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head261" xml:space="preserve">CHRISTIANI HUGENII
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          NOVUS CYCLUS
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          HARMONICUS.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head262" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Litteræ D. Hugenii de Cyclo Harmonico.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10439" xml:space="preserve">NOvam tibi mitto de Muſica obſervationem.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10440" xml:space="preserve">Spectat hæc prima Scientiæ illius fundamen-
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            ta, id eſt, tonorum, qui in cantu & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10441" xml:space="preserve">Inſtru-
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            mentorum fabrica obſervantur, determina-
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            tionem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10442" xml:space="preserve">Quicunque licet parum verſati ſint
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            in parte illa Theoriæ, norunt, quid ſit, quod
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            vocatur Temperamentum, quod tonos illos
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            moderatur & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10443" xml:space="preserve">quam neceſſarium illud ſit in harmonia tubo-
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            rum Organi vel chordarum Clavecymbali.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10445" xml:space="preserve">Celebriores auctores, uti Zarlinus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10446" xml:space="preserve">Salinas, illud re-
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            ferunt inter inventa pulcherrima & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10447" xml:space="preserve">utiliſſima, quæ in muſi-
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            cis detegi poſſunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10448" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10449" xml:space="preserve">uterque contendit ſe primum Tempera-
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            mentum hoc ad examen revocaſſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10450" xml:space="preserve">demonſtrationibus Ma-
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            thematicis conſtituiſſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10451" xml:space="preserve">Ante illos experientia & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10452" xml:space="preserve">neceſſitas il-
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            lud quidem aliquo modo jam introduxerant, licet vera men-
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            ſura & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10453" xml:space="preserve">methodus nondum eſſet cognitæ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10454" xml:space="preserve">Inventio hujus Tem-
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            peramenti in cauſa fuit, ut merito negligerentur omnes ve-
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            terum Tetrachordarum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10455" xml:space="preserve">Diapaſonorum diviſiones quarum
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            pleræquæ abſurdæ & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10456" xml:space="preserve">uſus nullius erant in compoſitione pluri-
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            marum partium: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10457" xml:space="preserve">hac etiam inventione noſtrum ſyſtema to-
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            norum magis abundat conſonantiis, magiſque eſt juxta na-
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            turam cantus, quam illorum erat.</s>
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