Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 1: Opera mechanica

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            deeſſe videatur ad perficiendum tantæ utilitatis inventum.
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                <emph style="sc">Descri-</emph>
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                <emph style="sc">PTIO</emph>
                <emph style="sc">Ho-</emph>
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                <emph style="sc">ROLOGII</emph>
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            Quid autem & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1015" xml:space="preserve">qua fortuna hìc tentatum fuerit, quidve de-
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            inceps tentandum reſtet, exponere non pigebit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1017" xml:space="preserve">Prima duo hujusmodi horologia Britannica navi vecta
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            fuere anno 1664, quæ vir nobilis è Scotia nobisque amicus
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            ad noſtrorum exemplum fabricari curaverat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1018" xml:space="preserve">Hæc ponderis
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            loco laminam chalybeam habebant in ſpiram convolutam,
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            cujus vi rotæ circumagerentur, quemadmodum in exiguis
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            illis quæ circumferri ſolent automatis adhiberi ſolent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1019" xml:space="preserve">Ut
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            autem jactationem navis perferre poſſent, è chalybea pila,
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            cylindro æneo incluſa, horologia ſuſpenderat, clavulamque
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            quæ penduli motum continuat (erat autem ſemipedali longi-
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            tudine pendulum) deorſum productam geminaverat, ut li-
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            teræ F inverſæ formam referret; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1020" xml:space="preserve">ne videlicet in gyrum
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            evagari poſſet penduli motus, unde ceſſationis pericu-
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            lum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1021" xml:space="preserve">Navis hæc, cum tribus aliis quas itineris ſocias habue-
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            rat, poſtquam in Britanniam reverſa eſt, Præfectus claſſis
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            hæc retulit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1022" xml:space="preserve">Se nempe, cum à Guineæ littore ſolviſſet, at-
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            que ad inſulam, ſancti Thomæ dictam, perveniſſet, quæ
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            æquinoctiali circulo ſubjacet, compoſitis hìc ad ſolem horo-
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            logiis, occidentem verſus curſum inſtituiſſe, atque ad ſe-
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            ptingenta circiter milliaria continuo tramite progreſſum, tum
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            rurſus vento favente Libonoto ad Africæ littora declinaviſ-
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            ſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1023" xml:space="preserve">Cum autem ad ducenta trecentave milliaria eò curſum
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            tenuiſſet, magiſtros aliarum navium, veritos ne priuſ-
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            quam Africam attigiſſent aquâ ad potum deficerentur, ſua-
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            ſiſſe ut ad inſulas Americanas, Barbatorum dictas, aquan-
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            di gratiâ deflecteret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1024" xml:space="preserve">Tum ſeſe concilio nauclerorum habito,
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            juſſiſque ut Ephemeridas ac ſupputationes ſinguli ſuas pro-
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            ferrent, reperiſſe cæterorum calculos à ſuis diverſos abire,
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            unius quidem 80 milliaribus, alterius centenis, tertii am-
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            plius etiam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1025" xml:space="preserve">Ipſum vero, cum ex horologiorum indicio
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            collegiſſet non amplius quam triginta circiter milliaribus ab-
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            eſſe inſulam del Fuego dictam, quæ una eſt earum, non
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            procul ab Africa diſtantium, quæ à Viridi promontorio no-
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            men habent, eamque poſtero die teneri poſſe; </s>
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