Musschenbroek, Petrus van, Physicae experimentales, et geometricae de magnete, tuborum capillarium vitreorumque speculorum attractione, magnitudine terrae, cohaerentia corporum firmorum dissertationes: ut et ephemerides meteorologicae ultraiectinae

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            ribus perfecte rigidis datur proportio duplicata, quæ etiam a priori
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            Geometrice demonſtrari poteſt, de Flexibilibus omnibus nondum de-
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            monſtrari potuit, latet profecto in fibrarum lentitiâ adhuc aliquid,
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            quod perſpicientiam efſugit, atque Philoſophorum ſagacitatem eluſit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12881" xml:space="preserve">Quoniam Vitrum inter corpora maxime homogenea merito poni-
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            tur, ratus fui cum eo inſtituta Experimenta regulam accurate ex-
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            hibitura, quæ revera ita prodiit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12882" xml:space="preserve">monere oportet, difficillime cum
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            Vitro Experimenta accurata capi poſſe, quia Vitrum facilius vel dif-
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            ficilius frangitur pro duritie vel mollitie diverſa oræ foraminis, ex
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            quo eminet; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12883" xml:space="preserve">ſi ora cuprea vel ferrea ſit, tum idem Vitrum frange-
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            tur a libris 4 appenſis, quod ab 8 libris modo frangitur, ſi ora
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            fuerit lignea, vel plumbo aut Stanno obducta, cujus rei rationem fru-
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            ſtra ex Mechanicâ quæſiveris: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12884" xml:space="preserve">poſt varios igitur incaſſum tentatos
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            labores; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12885" xml:space="preserve">hanc methodum eſſe optimam Experientia docuit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12887" xml:space="preserve">Ex vitreo ſpeculo, utrimque lævigato, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12888" xml:space="preserve">per totam magnitudi,
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            nem æque craſſo exſectæ ſunt lamellæ, rectangulæ, diverſarum
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            latitudinum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12889" xml:space="preserve">harum Sectiones, quæ inæquales ſemper ſunt ab ada-
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            mante fiſſæ, lævigatæ fuerunt & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12890" xml:space="preserve">rectangulæ factæ, ita ut quælibet
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            lamella fuerit parallelopipedum rectangulum ab omni parte: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12891" xml:space="preserve">Tum
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            in majori mole Ligni Buxini inciſura facta fuit, ejus amplitudinis,
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            ut accurate craſſitiem laminæ caperet, inciſuræ baſis planiſſima fuit
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            facta, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12892" xml:space="preserve">Lignum ita affixum Tabulæ, ut hæc baſis quoque fuerit
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            accuratiſſime horizontalis, niſi enim id fiat, nunquam confidi
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            poſſet Experimento; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12893" xml:space="preserve">tum ex ligno eodem aſſerculus inciſuræ con-
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            gruens etiam factus qui minus magiſque profunde ipſi immitti poſſet,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12894" xml:space="preserve">ſuperius ope binarum cochlearum retineri: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12895" xml:space="preserve">baſi inciſuræ impoſita
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            fuit tenuis lamella ſtanni, circiter o, 03 pollicis craſſa, quæ impe-
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            diebat, quominus ora anterior ligni a vitro læderetur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12896" xml:space="preserve">huic inci-
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            ſuræ immiſſæ fuerunt vitreæ lamellæ, cujus ſuperior ſuperficies,
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            adacto ligneo aſſerculo, horizonti erat parallela, atque aliud latus
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            ipſi perpendiculare; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12897" xml:space="preserve">erat omnium craſſities 0, 16 pollicis, diſtantia
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            applicati ponderis a foramine fuit accurate 3 pollicum Rhenolandi-
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            corum in primis tribus Experimentis, in tribus ſequentibus fuit 2
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            pollicum.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12899" xml:space="preserve">Præterea ſollicite admodum curandum eſt, ut hæc tentamina ca-
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            piantur in loco quietiſſimo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12900" xml:space="preserve">ſi enim ambulaveris, aut currus per </s>
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