Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head118" xml:space="preserve">DISSERTATIO SEXTA.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head119" style="it" xml:space="preserve">*De ignibus Cœleſtibus.*</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s19677" xml:space="preserve">GRad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19678" xml:space="preserve">Illud idem ferè nobis accidit,
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            quod & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19679" xml:space="preserve">iis, qui ſecundo flumine cur-
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            ſum tenentes demum in immenſam
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            maris amplitudinem devectum navi-
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            gium animadvertunt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19680" xml:space="preserve">Nos enim ignis
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            veſtigia perſequentes in ipſum uſque
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            Cœlum aſcendimus cometas ibi ful-
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            gentes contemplando. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19681" xml:space="preserve">Sicut autem in
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            flumine quidem cymbula vel ab uno,
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            nec admodum valido, remige propulſa
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            ſatis placidè provehitur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19682" xml:space="preserve">ſed ubi in
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            mare cum influentibus aquis delapſa, ventorum atque flu-
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            ctuum ludibrium facta agitatur, tunc enim verò rudis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19683" xml:space="preserve">ine-
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            xercitatus remex conſilii inops, ac viribus deſtitutus, ignorat,
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            quo tramite ſecurus curſum intendat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19684" xml:space="preserve">ita me, hactenus præ-
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            fidentem mihi, nunc reprimunt æterni illi ignes, noſtris hiſce,
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            quos contemplati ſumus, longiſſimè majores tùm mole, tùm
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            efficacitate, neque quid conſilii capiam, ſi de iis diſputare opor-
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            teat, ſatis ſcio: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19685" xml:space="preserve">planè in mari igneo mihi aqua hæret, ut ajunt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s19687" xml:space="preserve">Dand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19688" xml:space="preserve">Maris ignei verbum aptè cecidit ad id, quod non,
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            pauci ſapientes de Cœlo opinantur, adeò ut Cœlum ac Ignem
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            pro eodem accipiant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19689" xml:space="preserve">non enim ſolùm Cicero lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19690" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19691" xml:space="preserve">de Nat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19692" xml:space="preserve">Deor.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s19693" xml:space="preserve">pag. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19694" xml:space="preserve">80. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19695" xml:space="preserve">dixit, Principio Terra ſita in mediâ parte Mundi, cir-
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            cunfuſa undique eſt animabili ſpirabilique Naturâ, cui nomen
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            eſt aër: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19696" xml:space="preserve">Hunc rurſus amplectitur immenſus Ætber, qui conſtat ex
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            altiſſimis ignìbus .</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19697" xml:space="preserve">..</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19698" xml:space="preserve">. Ex Æthere igitur innumerabiles flammæ ſide-
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            rum exiſtunt, quorum eſt princeps Sol, omnia clariſſimâ luce colluſtrans: </s>
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            ſed etiam apud S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19700" xml:space="preserve">Auguſtinum lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19701" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19702" xml:space="preserve">de Gen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19703" xml:space="preserve">ad lit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19704" xml:space="preserve">cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19705" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19706" xml:space="preserve">Super
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            aërem purus Ignis eſſe dicitur Cœlum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19707" xml:space="preserve">Si autem Cœlum eſt Ignis
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            utique Maris ignei nomenclationem admittit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19708" xml:space="preserve">majori </s>
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