Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              aquæ rubrum euadet, ac perſpicuum, tum
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              ſplendens ob argenti nitorem: vocamuſque
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              hoc miſtum carbunculum à ſimilitudine: vt­
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              que amurcam plurimam, quæ aquæ miſcea­
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              tur, non oportet rubram fieri, ſed opaca, vt
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              nigra aqua efficeretur, ita argenti pars mi­
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              nor eſt, aquei humoris plurima, ſi perſpi­
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              cuum hoc genus rudis argenti magna ex
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              parte eſſe debeat. </s>
              <s id="s.004470">Sed ſi vel ſubnigrum fue­
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              rit, vel copioſius, quàm pro aquea parte, vel
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              impurum, non erit perſpicuum. </s>
              <s id="s.004471">Cur igitur
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              rubrum eſſe neceſſe ſit, quod perſpicuum eſt,
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              & ex quibus conſtet, abundè dictum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.004472">Nec
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              prohibet, quin etiam alia metallica à plum­
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              bo, vel ære perſpicua ſint: ſed contingit ra­
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              riùs, ob impuritatem illorum: nam argen­
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              tum ære & plumbo purius eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.004473">Ergo & hac
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              ratione gemmas fingere adulterinas licet.
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              <s id="s.004474">Sed quod ab initio propoſueramus, proſe­
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              quamur. </s>
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              <s id="s.004475">Tranſlucent igitur è lapidibus magneſia,
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              armatura, ſpecularis lapis, gypſi flos, quem
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              alium eſſe à ſpeculari lapide putat Agrico­
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              la. </s>
              <s id="s.004476">E marmorum generibus aliquid in vno­
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              quoque, ſolus tamen phengites generaliter,
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              ac totus luci peruius eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.004477">Gemmæ etiam plu­
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              res, adeóque magna ex parte gemmarum ge­
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              nus, vt multi credant eas, quæ non tranſlu­
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              cent, haud gemmas dici debere. </s>
              <s id="s.004478">Vitrea etiam
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              omnia. </s>
              <s id="s.004479">Ex ſuccis quatuor, ſal, alumen, ni­
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              trum, & ſutorium atramentum. </s>
              <s id="s.004480">Terrarum
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              genus nullum eſt perſpicuum: nam ſi aquæ
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              multæ miſceretur, terra eſſe deſineret: con­
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              creta etiam humido in lapidem verteretur,
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              nec terra amplius eſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.004481">Terra etiam ob te­
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              nuitatem tranſlucere nequit: nam & nitrum
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              & gemmæ quantumuis perſpicuæ, in pulue­
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              rem redactæ, perſpicuæ eſſe deſinunt. </s>
              <s id="s.004482">Cùm
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              igitur terra non cohæreat, ſed tenuiſſima ſit,
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              non poteſt eſſe perſpicua.
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              Terra nulla
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              cur perſpi­
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              cua.</s>
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              Auri odor,
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              & metallo­
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              rum.</s>
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              <s id="s.004485">Sed ad auri hiſtoriam reuertor. </s>
              <s id="s.004486">Solum
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              ipſum inter metalla exiguum bonum ſpirat
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              odorem: cui ſuccedit argentum: æs peſſimum
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              cauſa eſt magnitudo caloris adurentis. </s>
              <s id="s.004487">In au­
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              ro, quòd ſuaui calore generetur eius ſubſtan­
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              tia, nullus odor malus relinquitur: ob id mul­
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              torum annorum ſpatio auri generatio indi­
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              get, reliqua breuiore omnia conficiuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.004488">A
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              moderato autem calore paruam duritiem
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              fieri neceſſe eſt, atque ob id molle aurum, &
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              quæcunque benè olent, mollia erunt, vt am­
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              bra. </s>
              <s id="s.004489">Quòd ſi Geodes Miſenus ( quem falsò
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              Ætitem dicunt, quòd in eo alius reſonet la­
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              pis) violam redoleat, & Aldenbergij lapidis
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              fragmenta, & Berningerij lapis videantur
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              benè olere à muſco, qui eis circundatur, hoc
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              eis aduenit: nam illorum ſubſtantiam, aut
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              aliorum duorum benè olere vix poſſibile eſt,
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              quemadmodum etiam ſuprà docuimus.
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              Geodes Mi­
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              ſenus benè
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              olet.</s>
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              Auri & ar­
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              genti mira
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              tenuitas in
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              filo.</s>
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              <s id="s.004492">Tenuiſſimum igitur aurum ſubſequitur
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              argentum, quod etiam experimento depre­
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              henditur. </s>
              <s id="s.004493">Denarius ſeu ſcrupulus, grana 24.
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              argenti in filum 134. pedum producitur: ſunt
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              hi è noſtris brachia 100. fermè. </s>
              <s id="s.004494">Hoc totum
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              vndequaque (dictu incredibile, ſed omnibus
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              eius rei artificibus notum) circumambit auri
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              pars tertia grani vnius: nam auri vnciæ duæ
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              in pondo 12. ac ſemis argenti diſtribuuntur.
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              <s id="s.004495">Argenti vncia in pedes 3200. ſeu brachia
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              noſtrà 2400. quæ à granis ſex auri circum­
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              ueſtiuntur vndequaque. </s>
              <s id="s.004496">Atque hæc de du­
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              ctili: quæ verò tenuitas auro concedatur,
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              malleo ſuper argenti bracteas extenditur,
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              haud minore digna eſt admiratione: nam au­
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              ri vncia, octo argenti pondo tegit. </s>
              <s id="s.004497">Cùm ve­
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              rò in folia tranſierint, nequeas quid ſit te­
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              nuius cognoſcere, aurumne, an argentum:
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              itaque incomprehenſibili argenti tenuitate
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              aurum centuplo tenuius eſſe neceſſe eſt, ita
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              fit vt auri vncia plus, quam decem terræ iu­
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              gera tegere poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.004498">Contingit hoc ob ſub­
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              ſtantiæ puritatem, longámque coctionem: ob
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              id auro cælaturas ferri, ac chalybis parua
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              impenſa ornant, cuius pars maior eſt opere,
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              quàm auri. </s>
              <s id="s.004499">Multiplex hæc ratio, tres tamen
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              modos faciliores explicabo. </s>
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              Auri tenui­
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              tas in foliis</s>
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              <s id="s.004501">Aurum in bracteas redactum argento vi­
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              uo miſcetur, inde cùm igne excalefactum
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              fuerit, in aquam effunditur, pòſt argento vi­
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              no, ſi vas argenteum ſit, illinitur argentum
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              viuum: pòſt incaleſcit vas, & pectitur, donec
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              vbique hæreat, inde igne abſumpto argento
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              viuo, aurum manet argento adhærens. </s>
              <s id="s.004502">Quòd
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              ſi æri, vel ferro iungi aurum debet, hoc mo­
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              do facies. </s>
              <s id="s.004503">Lauabis vas priùs vino, in quo
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              ſal ammoniacum, & ærugo æquis partibus
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              cum duplo fæcis vini ſint diſſoluta: inde ar­
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              gento viuo, poſtquam ſiccata fuerint, vt
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              priùs illines. </s>
              <s id="s.004504">Modus alius aqua ſeparationis,
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              cuius hiſtoriam ſcripſiſſe me memini ſupe­
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              riùs, conſtat. </s>
              <s id="s.004505">Tertius eſt, vt candenti ferro
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              auri folia ſuperponantur, inde hæmatite Hiſ­
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              pano, cuius color exterius ſanguineus eſt, vn­
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              de nomen traxit, interiùs ferreus, cum duri­
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              tie tanta, vt vix limam ſentiat, confricetur,
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              non hic eſt Germanus ille mollis. </s>
              <s id="s.004506">Vnde li­
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              quet Hiſpanum eſſe, qui ſanguinem ſiſtat:
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              nam duritie in tenuiſſimum puluerem redigi
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              poteſt, & vim habet ſiccantem ac aſtringen­
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              tem eximiam. </s>
              <s id="s.004507">Medici autem fruſtrato opere
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              vtuntur Germanico, cuius nulla penitùs vti­
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              litas eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.004508">Itaque in pollinem redigere opor­
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              tet lapidem illum, ſi hæmoptoicos ſanare op­
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              timo auxilio propoſitum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.004509">Ita me in ma­
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              nifeſtis adeò etiam cæcutiunt medici noſtræ
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              ætatis, vt nunquam vel vnum, qui verè vſus
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              ſit, animaduerterem, cùm coloris & ſub­
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              ſtantiæ ſimilitudine decipiantur. </s>
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              Inaurandi
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              modi.</s>
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              Hæmatites
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              Hiſpanus, &
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              eius vſus.</s>
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              <s id="s.004512">His igitur relictis, quæ ſunt extra propo­
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              ſitum, ad rem ipſam reuertamur. </s>
              <s id="s.004513">Quod Hæ­
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              matitæ faciunt, licet Ophyte etiam leuiſſi­
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              mo perficere. </s>
              <s id="s.004514">Itaque omnium horum cauſa
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              eſt auri tenuitas maxima, quæ illi eſt pro
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              priuilegio. </s>
              <s id="s.004515">Alterum, quod ignibus minimè
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              cedat, niſi venenis iungatur: per ſe enim ſi
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              maneat, vel cum plumbo etiam diebus vi­
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              ginti in igne liquatum, non minuitur tanta
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              parte, vt ſenſui ſit manifeſta, quippe nihil
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              minui ipſum dicere non auſim. </s>
              <s id="s.004516">Cauſam igi­
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              tur horum ante omnia perdiſcere oportet: ſi­
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              mul & cur aurum non tingit. </s>
              <s id="s.004517">Hæc enim tria
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              ſunt auro peculiaria, non conſumi igne, non
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              tingere, & eſſe tenuiſſimum. </s>
              <s id="s.004518">Verùm pingue­
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              do fœdat & vritur, & vri cogit ea, quibus
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              miſcetur, ſolum igitur aurum pinguedine ca­
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              ret. </s>
              <s id="s.004519">Quæ etiam aquea ſunt, euaneſcunt igni­
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              bus expoſita, aurum nullis euaneſcit ignibus
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              aut igitur non aquea ſubſtantia conſtat, aut </s>
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