Blancanus, Josephus, Sphaera mvndi, sev cosmographia demonstratiua , ac facile methodo tradita : in qua totius Mundi fabrica, vna cum nouis, Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumq' ; Astronomorum adinuentis continentur ; Accessere I. Breuis introductio ad geographiam. II. Apparatus ad mathematicarum studium. III. Echometria, idest Geometrica tractatio de Echo. IV. Nouum instrumentum ad Horologia
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4056" xml:space="preserve">Porrò cauſam huius reſtaurationis dicimus eſſe aquas, tum fluniales, tum etiam pluuiales, vt ex ſequenti-
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            bus obſeruationibus fiet manifeſtum.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4057" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4058" xml:space="preserve">Primo videmus flumina quotidie montium radices corrodere, ac ſuffodere, ita vt paſſim ex omnibus mon
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            tibus magnas efficiant ruinas, ac præcipitia, ſicq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4059" xml:space="preserve">terra (vt eſt apud Iobum cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4060" xml:space="preserve">14.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4061" xml:space="preserve">alluuione paulatim con-
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            ſumitur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4062" xml:space="preserve">humum vero illam ex montibus delapſam ſemper ad loca humiliora fluuij deducunt.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4063" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4064" xml:space="preserve">Ex his fluminum corroſionibus naſcuntur tardiffimæ illæ, ſed tamen magnæ ruinæ, quæ Labinæ à laben-
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            do dicuntur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4065" xml:space="preserve">quibus non rarò pagi, ac vici integri in fluuios præcipites delabuntur.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4066" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4067" xml:space="preserve">2 Quotidie cernimus aquas pluuias montium ſuperficies ad ima deducere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4068" xml:space="preserve">hinc fit vt altiores mõtes ſint
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            etiã cæteris duriores, ac lapidoſi magis, qua duritie aquis me@ius reſiſtunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4069" xml:space="preserve">hinc pariter fit vt antiqua in mon-
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            tibus ædificia, fundamentis eorum paulatim detectis, non admodum diuturna euadant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4070" xml:space="preserve">hac de cauſa Ro-
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            mani Capitolij fundamenta modo tota ſupra terram extant, quæ olim altè ſub terram deſcendebant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4071" xml:space="preserve">vide
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            hac de re Georgium Agricolam lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4072" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4073" xml:space="preserve">cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4074" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4075" xml:space="preserve">vbi plura ſcitu digna reperies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4076" xml:space="preserve">ſed iam ad plana deſcendamus.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4078" xml:space="preserve">3 In planis igitur contrarium omnino accedere videmus, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4079" xml:space="preserve">in montibus plana videlicet loca quoti-
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            die magis eleuari, quoniam aquæ terram, quam ſecum ex montanis detrahunt, in planis, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4080" xml:space="preserve">alijs etiam de-
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            cliuioribus locis deponunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4081" xml:space="preserve">hinc cernimus antiqua in hiſce locis ædificia, eſſe iam penè tota ſepulta, contra
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            quam in editionibus locis accidat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4082" xml:space="preserve">ſic Romæ ad radices ipſius Capitolij montis, cernere eſt triumph alem ar-
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            cum Septimij iam penè totum terra obrutum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4083" xml:space="preserve">eadem de cauſa in Pantheona nunc deſcenditur, in quem mul
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            tis gradibus olim aſcendebatur@ſic etiã Epiſcopalia templa vetuſtiora, ſatis infra terram conſpiciuntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4084" xml:space="preserve">hinc
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            etiam paſſim in antiquioribus vrbium domibus portæ complures occluſæ cernuntur parum ſupra ſolum ex-
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            tantes, quæ cauſam ignorantibus, magnæ ſunt admirationi.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4086" xml:space="preserve">Ex quibus patet hanc ędificiorum demerſionem in terram manifeſtum eſſe ſignum eorum antiquitatis eo
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            maioris, quo altius in terram defoſſa ſunt, v. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4087" xml:space="preserve">g. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4088" xml:space="preserve">Bononiæ viſuntur plures antiquę vrbis Portæ, quas vulgò Bo-
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            nonienſes appellant Torreſotti, valde demerſæ, ideo certum earum antiquitatis argumentum eſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4089" xml:space="preserve">ac proin-
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            de verum eſſe, quod tradũt hiſtoriæ, eas tempore S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4090" xml:space="preserve">Petronij, ſcilicet 1200. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4091" xml:space="preserve">ab hinc ferè annis fuiſſe extructas.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4092" xml:space="preserve">Idem de cæteris quoq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4093" xml:space="preserve">fabricis iudicium haberi debet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4094" xml:space="preserve">animaduertendum tamen eſt cæteris paribus, eas al-
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            tius eſſe demerſas, quæ in humiliori loco, quam quæ in editiori conſtructæ ſunt, ob allatam ſuperius rationẽ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4095" xml:space="preserve">
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            ſic Bononiæ pariter Porta illa vetus quæ dicitur, il Torreſotto di S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4096" xml:space="preserve">Giorgio, altius obruta eſt, quam quæ di-
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            citur, il Torreſotto di Stracaſtiglione, quia enim illa in humiliori loco ſita eſt, propterea circa ipſam humus
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            facilius congeſta accreuit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4098" xml:space="preserve">4 Idem affirmant Architectores, qui dum fundamenta defodiunt, primò vbiq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4099" xml:space="preserve">in planis excauant terrã,
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            quam commotam appellant, quæ lignis, ferramentis, ruderibus, numiſmatis, antiquis ſepulchris, alijſq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4100" xml:space="preserve">re-
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            bus permixta eſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4101" xml:space="preserve">hac autem eruta, humum aliam, effodiunt numquam antea commotam, ſed ſolidam, ac be-
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            nè compactam, nulliſq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4102" xml:space="preserve">alienis rebus, præſertim artificiatis, commixtam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4103" xml:space="preserve">terra igitur illa commota, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4104" xml:space="preserve">im-
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            pura, ea eſt, quam ex altioribus locis, aquæ in depreſſiora paulatim deportauerunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4105" xml:space="preserve">quæ non vbiq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4106" xml:space="preserve">eiuſdem
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            eſt altitudinis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4107" xml:space="preserve">quoniam verò in montibus nuſquam reperitur huiuſmodi terra mota, aut noua, vt patet ex-
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            perientia Architectorum, manifeſtum eſt montes nullo modo creſcere, vt nonnulli ſomniant.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4109" xml:space="preserve">5 Comprobatur tandem noſtra obſeruatio, ex illa arte, quæ nunc viget, qua ſcilicet, per aquas fluuiales
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            aggerando loca depræſſiora attollunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4110" xml:space="preserve">altiora verò corrodendo deprimunt, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4111" xml:space="preserve">hæc de terra.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4113" xml:space="preserve">Circa mare verò eadem contingunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4114" xml:space="preserve">cum enim maris fundum ſit terreſtri ſuperficie depreſſius, atque in
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            mare ingentia omnia flumina ſe exonerent, ſecumq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4115" xml:space="preserve">magnam terræ, ac arenæ copiam inferant, continuo,
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            fiunt circa maris litora propè oſtia fluminum, magnæ aggerationes, quibus multum litora in mare creſcunt,
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            illudq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4116" xml:space="preserve">recedere propterea cogunt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4118" xml:space="preserve">Primo id quidem probatur authoritate Ariſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4119" xml:space="preserve">lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4120" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4121" xml:space="preserve">Meteor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4122" xml:space="preserve">cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4123" xml:space="preserve">de permutatione terræ, ac maris; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4124" xml:space="preserve">necnort
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            authoritate veterum Geographorum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4125" xml:space="preserve">Hiſtoricorum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4126" xml:space="preserve">Ariſtoteles igitur ibi in comprobationem huius ad-
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            ducit primo magnam illam Aegypti aggerationem a Nilo flumine factam, pars enim illa Aegypti, quę Del-
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            ta, Niliq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4127" xml:space="preserve">donum appellatur, ab Herodoto, ex arenis, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4128" xml:space="preserve">limo ex Aethiopiæ montibus ſimul cum aquis Nili
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            delabentibus, eſt conflata, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4129" xml:space="preserve">antiquo litori addita, cui locum paulatim inare ceſſit, eſtque propterea Nili
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            donum appellata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4130" xml:space="preserve">Secundum Ariſtotelis exemplum eſt Ammonia Regio: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4131" xml:space="preserve">cuius humiliora loca, ſcilicet ma-
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            ritima, palam, inquit, eſt quod aggeratione facta, fiunt ſtagna, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4132" xml:space="preserve">continens; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4133" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4134" xml:space="preserve">ſuccedente tempore aqua ſta-
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            gnans exſiccata eſt, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4135" xml:space="preserve">iam ob aggerationem annihilata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4136" xml:space="preserve">Tertium exemplum eſt Meotidis Paludis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4137" xml:space="preserve">at verò
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            ait, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4138" xml:space="preserve">quæ ſunt circa Meotidem paludem creuerunt alluuione fluuiorum tantum, vt multo minores magni-
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            tudine naues, nunc innare poſſint, quam anno ab hinc 60. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4139" xml:space="preserve">quare ex hoc facilè eſt ratiocinari, vt multa ſtagno-
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            rum, ita, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4140" xml:space="preserve">hoc opus eſſe fluuiorum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4141" xml:space="preserve">tandem neceſſe eſt, totum fieri ſiccum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4142" xml:space="preserve">vide Polybium lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4143" xml:space="preserve">4. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4144" xml:space="preserve">pag. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4145" xml:space="preserve">317.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4146" xml:space="preserve">Quartum eſt Boſphorus Thracius, quod apud ipſum, breuitatis cauſa videas. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4147" xml:space="preserve">Quinto accedat Plinij teſtimo-
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            nium, qui tradit multas terras naſci, non ſolũ fluminum inuectu, ſed etiam marium receſſu; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4148" xml:space="preserve">ſic mare ab Am-
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            braciæ portu 10. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4149" xml:space="preserve">millia paſſuum, ab Athenarum verò 5. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4150" xml:space="preserve">millia; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4151" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4152" xml:space="preserve">alijs in locis plus minuſuè receſſiſſe ſcribit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4153" xml:space="preserve">
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            huc facit locus Strabonius lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4154" xml:space="preserve">12. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4155" xml:space="preserve">de Pyramo Ciliciæ fluuio; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4156" xml:space="preserve">montes vero, inquit, egreſſus tantum limum in
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            mare deducit, partim ex Cataonia, partim ex Ciliciæ campis, vt huiuſmodi de eo oraculum feratut.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4158" xml:space="preserve">Tempus erit rapidis olim cum Pyramus vndis,
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            In ſacram veniet congeſto litto@e, Cyprum.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4160" xml:space="preserve">Hicenim fluuius è regione Cypri inſulæ in mare influit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4161" xml:space="preserve">hæc Strabo, apud quem plura huc ſpectantia, ac
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            ſcit@ digna reperies.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4163" xml:space="preserve">6 Verum recentiora, ac propiora non deſunt experimenta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4164" xml:space="preserve">Rauenna olim erat extremo littori </s>
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