Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686
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            ligentiam omninò accommodatum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18680" xml:space="preserve">non potiùs, ut ejuſdem
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            Sapientiam atque Potentiam admiraremur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18681" xml:space="preserve">Cumque afferrem
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            ſolem ſtetiſſe jubente Joſue, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18682" xml:space="preserve">obediente Domino voci hominis,
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            atque ille Copernicoturiens Sacrum Scriptorem vulgi vocabulo
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            uſum diceret ob ſpeciem quietis, cum priùs ſol, licet quieſcens,
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            oculis hominum in terrâ commotorum ſpeciem exhiberet mo-
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            tûs, quemadmodum recedentibus à litore videntur turres urbeſ-
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            que recedere, cum tamen ſola navis moveatur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18683" xml:space="preserve">Primùm autho-
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            ritatem SS. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18684" xml:space="preserve">Patrum oppoſui affirmantium ſacrorum librorum
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            vocabula non eſſe ad alienum ſenſum detorquenda, ſed juxta
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            uſitatam loquendi formulam interpretanda, niſi quid abſurdi
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            indè conſequatur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18685" xml:space="preserve">Tum rogavi, utrùm ſi quis lunam non moveri
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            juſſam ſtetiſſe dicat, eam verè ceſſaſſe à motu intelligendum ſit:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18686" xml:space="preserve">annuenti illico repoſui ſcriptum eſſe Joſue 10. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18687" xml:space="preserve">12. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18688" xml:space="preserve">Sol contra
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            Gabaon ne movearis, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18689" xml:space="preserve">Luna contra vallem Ajalon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18690" xml:space="preserve">Steteruntque
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            Sol & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18691" xml:space="preserve">Luna. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18692" xml:space="preserve">Quis autem probabiliter aſſerat, idem vocabulum
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            ne movearis, aut ſteterunt ſemel prolatum duplicem ſimul notio-
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            nem ſubire, alteram veram & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18693" xml:space="preserve">propriam, prout ad lunam refer-
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            tur, alteram alienam & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18694" xml:space="preserve">ſecundùm ſpeciem, prout de Sole,
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            uſurpatur? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18695" xml:space="preserve">Hinc digreſſi ſumus ad Phyſica aliquot argumenta
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            examinanda, quæ ille infirmare conabatur contendens illis non
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            ſatis probari tellurem reipſa non convolui: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18696" xml:space="preserve">ſed ingruens veſ-
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            pera diſputationem interrupit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18697" xml:space="preserve">libenſque diſceſſi, nam cœpe-
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            rat diſputatio in concertationem declinare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18698" xml:space="preserve">Quare cum domum
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            rediiſſem, atque conſtituerem adultâ nocte Plejades obſervare
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            (numeranti autem, quo tunc utebar Teleſcopio, ſtellas viginti
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            octo) quæ erant in Cœli plagâ Orientali, recentis diſputationis
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            recordatio obtulit anſam ſuſpicandi, utrùm quis per tubum
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            poſſet in ſtellam fixam aliquantulo ſaltem tempore obtutum
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            defigere, ſi Firmamentum immobile hæreret, ut Copernici
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            ſectatores autumant, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18699" xml:space="preserve">Tellus ab Occaſu in Ortum convol-
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            veretur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18700" xml:space="preserve">Statim itaque aſſumptâ noſtrâ latitudine Geogra-
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            phicâ gr. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18701" xml:space="preserve">45. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18702" xml:space="preserve">neglectis minutis, non fuit difficile invenire diame-
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            trum noſtri Paralleli ad diametrum circuli maximi, ſcilicet
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            Æquatoris, eſſe ut 7. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18703" xml:space="preserve">ad 10.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18704" xml:space="preserve">, quia verò eadem quoque eſt Ratio
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            tum peripheriarum, tum partium analogarum, adhæſi, ob
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            facilitatem calculos ſubducendi, ſententiæ tribuenti ſingulis
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            gradibus circuli maximi milliaria Italica ut minimum 60.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18705" xml:space="preserve">,
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            adeóque uni minuto reſpondent paſſus mille: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18706" xml:space="preserve">quapropter uni
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            minuto noſtri paralleli reſpondent paſsus Geometrici 700.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18707" xml:space="preserve">, qui
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            diviſi per 60.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18708" xml:space="preserve">, ut habeatur unum Minutum Secundum, </s>
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