Zanotti, Francesco Maria, Della forza de' corpi che chiamano viva libri tre, 1752

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            ſcoſte. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s581" xml:space="preserve">Di vero chi è i
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            tato mai, che intender poſ-
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            ſa
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            , qual coſa ſieno in lor medeſime la gravità,
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            l’ elaſticità, ed altre t
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            ali cagioni dì movimento,
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            e conoſcer l’ intrinſeca forma loro? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s582" xml:space="preserve">Ariſtotele,
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            che impiegò quaſi tutta la ſua fiſica a voler ſco-
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            prire, qual foſſe la prima cagion del moto,
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            poco altro ſeppe dirne, ſe non che ella doveſſe
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            eſſer χκίνη
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            τον τὶ κχὶ ὰὶδιον, un non ſo che immobile
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            e ſempite@@o; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s583" xml:space="preserve">il che non baſtando a ſpiegar la na-
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            tura della coſa, baſtò a moſtrare fin dove giun-
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            ger poteſſe uno de’ maggiori ingegni di Grecia.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s584" xml:space="preserve">Non biſogna dunque pretendere di conoſcere con
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            chiarezza, e diſtinzione queſte potenze, che pro-
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            ducono il movimento, o lo diſtruggono; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s585" xml:space="preserve">ma con-
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            tentarſi di averne un’ idea confuſa, e diſtinguer-
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            le ſol per gli effetti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s586" xml:space="preserve">Io vi dirò bene un coſtume,
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            che ell’ hanno quaſi tutte, o più toſto tutte, da
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            cui, per quanto ſi dice, mai non partono; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s587" xml:space="preserve">ed è,
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            che mai non produccno un movimento grandiſ-
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            ſimo tutto ad un tempo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s588" xml:space="preserve">ma dando al corpo pri-
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            ma un piccoliſſimo impulſo, gli danno, ove pe-
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            rò impedito non ſia, un moto piccoliſſimo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s589" xml:space="preserve">cui
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            poſcia accreſcono con un’ altro impulſo, e poi
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            con un’ altro, e poi con un’ altro, finchè lo ri-
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            ducono ad una inſigne grandezza; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s590" xml:space="preserve">e la potenza è
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            molte volte così ſollecita, e pronta in dar tali
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            impulſi, che in poco di tempo riduce il moto ad
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            una grandezza maraviglioſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s591" xml:space="preserve">Il che però non ſa-
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            rebbe vero, ſe il corpo non conſervaſſe tutti i
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            movimenti, che di mano in mano ha ricevuti.</s>
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