Musschenbroek, Petrus van, Physicae experimentales, et geometricae de magnete, tuborum capillarium vitreorumque speculorum attractione, magnitudine terrae, cohaerentia corporum firmorum dissertationes: ut et ephemerides meteorologicae ultraiectinae
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            tur, meliorique ordine diſponi poterunt, nam nunc modo
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            Hoc genus in rebus firmandum eſt, multa priuſquam
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            Ipſius rei rationem reddere poſſis:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2294" xml:space="preserve">Et nimium longis ambagibus eſt adeundum. </s>
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            teſtante Lucretio Lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2296" xml:space="preserve">6. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2297" xml:space="preserve">dolendum vero eſt plurima ab autoribus,
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            qui de Magnete egerunt, commemorari, quæ dubiæ ſunt fidei,
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            ſaltem quæ noſtra ætate, hac in regione, noſtrisque in Magneti-
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            bus nequaquam deprehenduntur, quia non cum ſufficienti cura ob-
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            fervationes inſtituerunt Philoſophi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2298" xml:space="preserve">aut quædam audita, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2299" xml:space="preserve">male
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            intellecta, ſuis inſeruerunt ſcriptis, quod etiam conqueſtus fuit
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            quondam Cabbeus in præfatione Philofophiæ Magneticæ præfixa: </s>
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            Certius ſcio, inquit, multos ſcriptores, etiam non infimæ notæ,
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            ſpecioſa quædam de Magnete commenta ex aliis tranſcripſiſſe, quæ
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            re ipſa vera non ſunt, ſi Experimenti ſubeant examen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2301" xml:space="preserve">Non ta-
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            men erroris illico accuſare aliquem licet, qui obſervationem mul-
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            tum a noſtra diſcrepantem adnotavit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2302" xml:space="preserve">Experientiâ enim frequenti
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            didici, quantum interſe differant phænomena Magnetica variis anni
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            temporibus, aut quæ eodem die cum diverſis Magnetibus excitan-
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            tur & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2303" xml:space="preserve">obſervantur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2304" xml:space="preserve">Verum multa ex cerebello protruſerunt ficta ex-
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            perimenta Philoſophi, ut hypotheſin, ſemel ſtabilitam, tuerentur,
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            vel melioribus quaſi confirmarent argumentis, aut in Experimentis
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            ea, quæ hypotheſi favebant, viderunt, omiſſis aliis, quæ ſimul
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            concurrebant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2305" xml:space="preserve">tantâ enim abripiuntur plurimi mortales philautiâ,
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            ut modo videant, quæ videre volunt, quæ præjudiciis conveniunt,
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            in reliquis cæcutiant.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2307" xml:space="preserve">Ut igitur fabulas & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2308" xml:space="preserve">figmenta a veritate ſegregarem, omnia re-
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            petenda erant, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2309" xml:space="preserve">ad novum examen vocanda Experimenta, quæ un-
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            quam ab Autoribus memoriæ ſunt prodita; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2310" xml:space="preserve">quo modo nonnun-
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            quam errorum cauſam detexi, haud raro ortam, quod concluſio
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            univerſalis ex particulari obſervatione deducta eſt, ſæpe inter ex-
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            plorandum in nova incidi tentamina, eaque, quæ alii inchoave-
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            runt, ulterius produxi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2311" xml:space="preserve">quidnam actum fuerit ex ipſis tentamini-
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            bus intelligetur.</s>
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