Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686
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            omnium aſpectum Sapientiſſimus Naturæ Author ſubiecit; </s>
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            enim quæ patent, ad ea quæ latent, facilior eſt coniectura; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2435" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2436" xml:space="preserve">vt
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            aiebat Cicero de Fin. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2437" xml:space="preserve">*inest in explicatione Naturæ inſatiabilis quæ-*
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            *dam ex cognoſcendis rebus voluptas.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2439" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2440" xml:space="preserve">Ita planè: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2441" xml:space="preserve">quia de remotiſſimis rebus, ad quas propiùs
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            accedere non licet ad veritatis veſtigia recognoſcenda, philoſo-
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            phantes mihi parum diſtare videntur ab ijs, quos præſentium ìgno-
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            ratio non ſtimulat ad indagandas eorum cauſas, miriſicè tamen
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            ſoliciti inquirunt, quænam ea ſint, quibus Author Naturæ vires
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            ſuas exercere potuiſſet, cum tamen ea voluerit in Potentiæ ſuæ
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            theſauris recondita. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2442" xml:space="preserve">Illud itaque antè omnia nobis examinandum
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            occurrit, cum plurima quotidiè ardere conſpiciamus, quid ab
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            igne materiam corripiente efficiatur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2443" xml:space="preserve">an ſcilicet noua quædam na-
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            tura in lucem prodeat, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2444" xml:space="preserve">ipſa exarſio ſit nouæ alicuius ſubſtantiæ
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            productio.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2446" xml:space="preserve">Grad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2447" xml:space="preserve">Præclarè nobiſcum agitur, quos colloquentes nemo eo-
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            rum audit, quos, cum Peripateticæ fectæ nomen dederint, à con-
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            greſſu noſtro abſterreret tua hæc, Maurocene, propoſita quæ-
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            ſtio, quaſi in controuerſiam vocari poſſet aliquid, quod in ipſo
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            Phyſicæ diſciplinæ limine tanquam minimè dubium ab omnibus
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            aſſumitur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2448" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2449" xml:space="preserve">nos Zenonis aſſeclas exiſtimarent, qui apud Laër-
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            tium τὰ πῦρ vocauit τεχνηκὸν non autem φυσικον.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2451" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2452" xml:space="preserve">Si qui de Peripateticà doctrina illicò conclamatum pu-
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            tarent, ac huiuſmodi quæſtionem inſtitui audirent, animum non
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            ſatis aduerterent ad facilem inſtituendi methodum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2453" xml:space="preserve">quam pru-
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            dentiſſimi diſciplinarum doctores dum conſectantur, veritatem in
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            exemplis non exquiſitè perſcrutantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2454" xml:space="preserve">Omnibus, fateor, fami-
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            liare eſt, vbi de corporum mutationibus inciderit mentio, ad li-
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            gnum, quod in ignem conuertitur, confugere: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2455" xml:space="preserve">quia cum vulga-
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            ri exemplo in rudiores tyronum mentes clarior mutationis no-
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            tio influit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2456" xml:space="preserve">Sed ad ſtabilienda ſua dogmata grauioribus ratio-
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            num momentis ducantur, oportet: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2457" xml:space="preserve">alioquin caduca nimis & </s>
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            eneruata eſſet doctrina illa, quæ huic vni exemplo, quaſi claudus
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            baculo, inniteretur.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2460" xml:space="preserve">Grad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2461" xml:space="preserve">At Primam illam rerum omnium Materiem per omnia
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            diffuſam corpora, Puramque Potentiam, cuius præconijs lycæa
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            omnia vndique circumſonant, vbinam gentium latitantem de-
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            mum deprehendere poterunt, ac in medium proferre ad </s>
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