Descartes, René, Renati Des-Cartes principia philosophiae

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              determinare: quia potuerunt iſta innumeris modis
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              diverſis à Deo temperarii & quemnam prae coeteris ele­
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              gerit, ſola experientia docere debet. </s>
              <s>Jamque idcirco
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              nobis liberum eſt, quidlibet de illis agumere, modò
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              omnia, quae ex ipſo conſequentur, cum experientiâ
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              conſentiant. </s>
              <s>Itaque, ſi placet, ſupponemus omnem
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              illam materiam, ex quâ hic mundus adſpectabilis eſt
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              compoſitus, fuiſſe initio à Deo diviſam in particulas
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              quam-proxime inter ſe aequales, & magnitudine me­
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              diocres a, ſive medias inter illas omnes, ex quibus jam
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              coeli atque aſtra componuntur; eaſque omnes tantun­
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              dem motûs in ſe habuiſſe, quantum jam in mundo re­
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              peritur; & aequaliter fuiſſe motas, tum ſingulas circa
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              propria ſua centra, & ſeparatim à ſe mutuò, ita ut
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              corpus fluidum componerent, quale coelum eſſe puta­
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              mus; tum etiam plures ſimul, circa alia quaedam
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              puncta b aequè à ſe mutuò remota, & eodem modo
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              diſpoſita ac jam ſunt centra Fixarum; nec non etiam
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              circa alia aliquanto plura, quae aequent numerum
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              Planetarum. </s>
              <s>Ita ſcilicet ut illae omnes, quae contine­
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              bantur in ſpatio AEI c, verterentur circa punctum S,
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              &squae continebantur in ſpatio AEV, circa F, & ita
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              de caeteris: ſicque tot varios vortices componerent
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              quot jam aſtra ſunt in mundo d. </s>
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              XLVI.
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              Quaenam ſint ea, quae
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              hîc aſſumo ad phae­
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              nomena omnia ex­
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              plicanda. </s>
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              Quae pauca ſufficere mihi videntur, ut ex iis tan­
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              quam cauſis omnes qui in hoc mundo apparent effe­
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              ctus ſecundúm leges naturae ſuprà expoſitas e oriantur. </s>
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