Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            liſus ab organo vocis aër, idem multipliciter criſpatur, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18040" xml:space="preserve">tre-
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            mulus percutit tympanum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18041" xml:space="preserve">quidni ſimiles vibrationes, atque,
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            variatas, interiori aëri eidem communicet, ex cujus appulſu ad
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            nervi Acuſtici fibras, ſpiritus quoquè Animales conſimili ratione
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            micent, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18042" xml:space="preserve">ad cerebrum uſque fluctuantes, pro percuſſionis mo-
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            do, ſenſum auditionis perficiant? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18043" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi tanta fuerit vis hujuſ-
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            modi percuſſionis, ut ſimili impulſu alios conſequentes ſpiritus
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            propellant in eam cerebri partem, ubi Natura ſedem memoriæ
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            conſtituit (quæ nec fluxa eſſe debet, nec dura, cujuſmodi eſſe
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            videtur cerebri cortex) ibi notam imprimunt, non quemad-
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            modum typus ceræ, ſed illi inſeruntur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18044" xml:space="preserve">pro cujus impreſſionis
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            ratione fit deinde aut confuſa, aut explicata recordatio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18045" xml:space="preserve">Porrò
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            ſi quis animum advertat, quàm multos eóſque tenuiſſimos ſpi-
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            ritus animales in exiguo pulicis, tam ingenti ſaltu ſe vibrantis,
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            corpuſculo eſſe oporteat, non dubitabit in hominis, aut cujuſ-
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            libet animantis perfecti memoriâ locum eſse plurimis ac ferè
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            innumeris ſpiritibus à ſenſu impreſſis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18046" xml:space="preserve">Quemadmodum verò
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            lucem corporibus inſitam ab externa luce excitari diximus,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18047" xml:space="preserve">hanc repercuti ita modificatam, ut colorum varias ſpecies
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            exprimat, ita ſpiritus illos animales memorativæ parti impreſſos
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            probabile eſt vim retinere ſimilis vibrationis, ſi ab aliis incur-
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            rentibus ſpiritibus excitentur, ſivè illi prorſus ſimilem vim, ſivè
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            affinem obtineant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18048" xml:space="preserve">Spirituum, licet non uno modo commoto-
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            rum, vim *affinem* voco, quando illi ſivè commiſti, ſivè proximi
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            ſimul fuere memoriæ impreſſi, ita ut alterutris excitatis alteri
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            pariter excitentur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18049" xml:space="preserve">ſic quia auditâ aliquâ voce, aut ſono, canis
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            fuit percuſsus, retinet ſpiritus tum à ſono, tum à percuſſione,
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            impreſsos; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18050" xml:space="preserve">ideòque auditâ iterum ſimili voce non ſolùm recor-
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            datur vocis, ſed etiam percuſſionis, quam timens fugit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18051" xml:space="preserve">Spiritus
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            ſiquidem illi excitati, atque juxtà ſuam indolem vibrantes, alios
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            quoquè concitant uſque ad locum, ubi primùm perfectus eſt
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            ſenſus, ac proinde ſimilem appetitûs motum efficiunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18052" xml:space="preserve">Non,
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            alia methodo ac de auditu, de cæteris pariter ſenſibus, ſervatâ
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            analogiâ, philoſophandum exiſtimarem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18053" xml:space="preserve">An ita ſe res habeat,
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            fateor me ignorare, nec audeo mihi occulta illa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18054" xml:space="preserve">quaſi invo-
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            luta, quæ in cerebro geruntur, evoluendi facultatem uſurpare:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18055" xml:space="preserve">Si tamen rem ita ſe habere liceat opinari, mihi videor rem,
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            maximè obſcuram interpretando explanare.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s18057" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18058" xml:space="preserve">Pro ſuâ admirabili atque ſingulari ſapientiâ Divinus
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            opifex animantium omnium, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18059" xml:space="preserve">præſertim perfectiorum cor-
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            pora condidit, ac vitæ munera diſpoſuit, adeò ut, niſi nobis </s>
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