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

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              625, ſed Græca ped. 600 fuiſſe contende­
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              bat, cum ex Eratoſthene menſura illa de­
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              ſumpta fuiſſet. </s>
              <s>Sed hìc pariter Syrtes inue­
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              nit, cum reuocato ſtadiorum 180 numero
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              ad pedes 108000, eius quadratum 11664.
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              000000. diuidere tentans per pedes 6, quo­
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              tientem pariter ampliſſimum deprehendit. </s>
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              Quid ſi voluiſſem contentioſiùs agene, affir­
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              mando Eratoſthenem nec Romanis, nec
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              Græcis, ſed Alexandrinis ſtadijs longioribus
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              vſum fuiſſe? </s>
              <s>Quantò longiùs aberrâſſet? </s>
              <s>Sed
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              placuit mitiſſimè agere. </s>
              <s>Quapropter eum
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              rogaui, vt ſaltem AB milliarium trium, hoc
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              eſt ped. 15000 conſtituens tentaret, an ex
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              aſſumptâ priùs iuſto maiore ſemidiametro
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              horizontis phyſici, an verò etiam ex metho­
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              di ageometriâ enormis illa magnitudo ori­
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              retur: Quadratum itaque ped. 225.000000
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              diuidens per DA ped.6, inueniebat AC ped.
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              37.500000, hoc eſt mill. 7500; vnde oritur
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              terræ ambitus mill. 47 142 6/7 duplo maior,
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              quàm communiter concedatur. </s>
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              <s>Mirabatur ille vehementer, quòd præter
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              ſpem tam procul à vero receſſiſſet: ſed nec
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              conceptam de maiore, iuxta communem
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              errorem, horizontis phyſici ſemidiametro
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              opinionem deponere audebat: hærebant ſci­
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              licet animo altè impreſſa plurium authorum </s>
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