Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686
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            niculos deriuatam ad fontes aquam neget; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2279" xml:space="preserve">alioquin iam tot ſæ-
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            cula influentibus in mare immenſis aquarum copijs, intelligi non
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            poteſt, quare non redundaret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2280" xml:space="preserve">Sienim quis curioſiùs ad calculos
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            reuocare conetur, quantam aquarum vim in mare inſèrant ſingu-
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            la flumina anno vno, tum diſpiciat, quantam iam per ſexaginta
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2281" xml:space="preserve">eo amplius ſæcula inuexerint, atque demum omnium fluuio-
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            rum aquas in mare iam dilapſas in ſummam vnam congerat, nul-
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            lus dubito, quin immenſum quoddam aquarum additamentum
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            inuenturus ſit, quod antiquorum litorum ſines tranſiliret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2282" xml:space="preserve">Cum
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            verò nullum factum ſit maris incrementum, neque aliunde euo-
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            cari queat ex terræ viſceribus (quæ iam exhauſta eſſent) tanta
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            aquarum copia in fontes, manifeſtum videtur aquam ex mari
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            deduci. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2283" xml:space="preserve">At mare, in quod aqua defluens deſcendit, inferius eſt
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            fontibus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2284" xml:space="preserve">per quas ergo fiſtulas aquam in ſummos montes iterum
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            propellit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2285" xml:space="preserve">quidem æquoris ſuperſicie excelſiores? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2286" xml:space="preserve">Quamuis
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            enim profundas voragines & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2287" xml:space="preserve">immenſos gurgites, quibus aqua
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            abſorbeatur, fingat quis, aut narret, ille tamen nodus ſemper
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            diſſoluendus ſupereſt, qua ratione aqua in ſuperiorem; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2288" xml:space="preserve">locum
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            propellatur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2289" xml:space="preserve">nam aliud eſſe aquæ ingenium ſe æquè librantis, ex
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            quotidiano ſiphonum experimento didicimus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2290" xml:space="preserve">An ſicut cruſtu-
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            lum vino Cretico immiſſum illud exugit, eòque imbuitur liquo-
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            re etiam pars illa, quæ vini in cyatho ſuperſiciem excedit, ita
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            pariter opinari liceat terram ad ſe ſurſum rapere aquas inferiùs
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            poſitas? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2291" xml:space="preserve">Verum ſi cupedinarius quiſpiam cruſtulo palmarem, aut
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            pedalem, aut etiam cubitalem longitudinem tribuat, poterit ne
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            ſperare liquorem, cui altera cruſtuli extremitas mergitur, vſ-
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            que ad alteram extremitatem aſcenſurum, atque inde guttatim
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            in idem vas extillaturum? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2292" xml:space="preserve">Minimè gentium. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2293" xml:space="preserve">Multo minùs aquam
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            in terræ cauernis libratam ſecundùm eandem maris ſuperſiciem,
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            poterit ipſa tellus exugendo attollere vſque ad montium verti-
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            cem, ad aliquot ſcilicet milliarium altitudinem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2294" xml:space="preserve">Quid igitur
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            ſupereſt, quàm vt infuſa per telluris venas aqua, ex ſubiecti in
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            centro ignis calore attenuata in vaporem, ſibi per rimas, quas
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            inuenit, exitum quærat in ſuperiora, donec demum vi frigoris,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2295" xml:space="preserve">vrgentibus poſterioribus halitibus iterum vapor conſtipetur,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2296" xml:space="preserve">concreſcat in aquam, quæ montis procliuitati obſecundans
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            tandem inſluat in mare? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2297" xml:space="preserve">Hinc quia in cuniculis deprimitur aquæ
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            ſuperſicies, dum pars in vaporem extenuatur, ideòque </s>
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