Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            quæ magis ad Ortum ſpectant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18632" xml:space="preserve">id quod facile eſt cuique obſer-
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            vare in motu aſcendentium pyrobolorum, ſi cum ſtellis compa-
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            rentur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18633" xml:space="preserve">Cometæ verò etiamſi infra Lunam ſtatuantur, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18634" xml:space="preserve">ve-
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            lociter moveantur, quia à nobis valdè remoti ſunt, non appa-
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            rent adeò veloces, ſicut pyroboli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18635" xml:space="preserve">Si tellurem circa ſuum axem
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            ſpatio 24. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18636" xml:space="preserve">horarum integræ convolutionis periodum abſolvere
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            fingamus, magno compendio ſublatum intelligimus motum
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            diurnum, quo ſidera & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18637" xml:space="preserve">Cometæ cieantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18638" xml:space="preserve">Sed fingerenon licet,
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            ubi non hypotheſis quęritur, ſed veritas: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18639" xml:space="preserve">illa autem diurna,
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            telluris convolutio cum Divinis literìs non cohęret; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18640" xml:space="preserve">cum ſcrip-
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            tum ſit Joſue 10. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18641" xml:space="preserve">13. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18642" xml:space="preserve">Stetit it aque Sol in medio Cœli, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18643" xml:space="preserve">non feſtinavit
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            occumbere ſpatio unius diei. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18644" xml:space="preserve">Non fuit antea & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18645" xml:space="preserve">poſtea tam longa dies.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s18646" xml:space="preserve">De eodem dicitur Eccleſiaſtici 46. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18647" xml:space="preserve">5. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18648" xml:space="preserve">impeditus eſt Sol, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18649" xml:space="preserve">una dies
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            facta eſt quaſi duo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18650" xml:space="preserve">Diurni igitur ſpatii menſura non fuit telluris
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            converſio, alioquin illâ convolutâ Sol occubuiſſet; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18651" xml:space="preserve">alius igitur
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            circuitus tam longam Solis moram metiebatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18652" xml:space="preserve">Niſi fortè quis
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            dixerit, nullo circuitu diurno opus fuiſſe, ut dicatur unus dies
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            fuiſſe duobus equalis: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18653" xml:space="preserve">quemadmodum S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18654" xml:space="preserve">Auguſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18655" xml:space="preserve">lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18656" xml:space="preserve">5. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18657" xml:space="preserve">de Ge-
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            neſi contra Manichęos cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18658" xml:space="preserve">14. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18659" xml:space="preserve">de tribus primis diebus ante
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            ſolem conditum ait potuiſse fieri ut tres ſuperiores dies, ſinguli per
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            tantam temporis moram computarentur, per quantam moram circuit
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            Sol, ex quo procedit ab Oriente, quouſque rurſus ad Orientem rever-
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            tatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18660" xml:space="preserve">Hanc enim moram & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18661" xml:space="preserve">longitudinem temporis poſsent ſentire
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            homines, etiamſi in ſpeluncis habitarent, ubi Orientem & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18662" xml:space="preserve">Occidentem
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            Solem videre non poſsent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18663" xml:space="preserve">Atque it a ſcitur potuiſse iſtam moram fieri
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            etiam ſinè ſole, antequam ſol factus eſ set. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18664" xml:space="preserve">Sed quocunque tandem
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            ſenſu locutus fuerit S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18665" xml:space="preserve">Doctor, nobis ſatis eſt Solem fuiſſe impedi-
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            ium; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18666" xml:space="preserve">id quod nullatenus verum eſſet, ſi ſemper ſol quieviſſet. </s>
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            Quemadmodum non niſi violentâ interpretatione opus habe-
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            rent verba prophetę Iſaię 38. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18668" xml:space="preserve">8. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18669" xml:space="preserve">Reverſus eſt Sol decem lineis per
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            gradus, quos deſcenderat, cum Rex Ezechias convaluit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18670" xml:space="preserve">de quo
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            habetur Eccleſiaſtici 48. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18671" xml:space="preserve">26. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18672" xml:space="preserve">in diebus ipſius retro rediit Sol, & </s>
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            addidit Regi vitam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18674" xml:space="preserve">Qua propter ſi Cometę oriuntur & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18675" xml:space="preserve">occi-
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            dunt, orbis autem terrę non commovetur, quis illos in gyrum
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            ducit?</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s18677" xml:space="preserve">Dand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18678" xml:space="preserve">Diſputabam aliquando cum amico in Philolai Syſte-
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            ma aliquantulum proniore, hoc ſolùm nomine, quod tellure
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            in Orbe Magno, circa Solem in mundi centro quìeſcentem,
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            commeante, atque circa ſuum axem ſemper axi mundi paral-
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            lelum convolutâ, faciliùs cœleſtia phænomena explicarentur;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s18679" xml:space="preserve">quaſi Naturæ author Deus orbem condiderit ad noſtram </s>
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