Casati, Paolo, Terra machinis mota : dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae physicae hydrostaticae

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              cum ex ſublimiori loco longiùs viſus eat, ex
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              humiliori autem breuioribus terminis coer­
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              ceatur, quis non videt certam ſtatui non poſ­
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              ſe visûs diſtantiam, quin certa pariter alti­
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              tudo, ex qua oculus circumſpicere valeat,
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              conſtituta intelligatur? </s>
              <s>præter eam verò,
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              quam humano corpori natura plerunquę
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              conceſſit, cur hanc præ aliâ eligas altitudi­
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              nem, nulla ſuppetit ratio. </s>
              <s>Nec ambigi vllo
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              pacto poteſt, an Veteres horizontis phyſici
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              amplitudinem indagantes, altitudinem vl­
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              lam humanâ maiorem aſſumpſerint; eam
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              ſiquidem horizonti tribuendam cenſuerę
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              magnitudinem, quæ cum ſphæricæ ſuperfi­
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              ciei pars ſit, à planâ tamen minimùm differ­
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              re poſſit. </s>
              <s>Hinc Macrobius Saturnal. lib. 7.
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              cap. 14.
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              Vbicunque terrarum ſteteris
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              , inquit,
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              videris tibi quandam cœli concluſionem vide­
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              re; & hoc eſt quod Horizontem veteres voca­
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              uerunt: quorum indago fideliter deprehendit,
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              directam ab oculis aciem per planum contrà
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              aſpicientibus non pergere vltra CLXXX ſta­
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              dia, & inde in orbem iam recuruari. </s>
              <s>Per pla­
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              num, ideò adieci, quia altitudines longiſſimè
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              aſpicimus; quippe qui & cælum videmus. </s>
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              Ergo in omni horizontis orbe ipſe qui intuetur,
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              centron eſt. </s>
              <s>Et quia diximus quantum à cen­
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