Gassendi, Pierre, De motu impresso a motore translato epistulae duae, 1642

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              quæ dicitur ſuprema, videlicet caput, alia, quæ in­
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              fima, videlicet pedes; eo modo, quo non eſt etiam
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              in mundo aliquid dextrum, aut ſiniſtrum, ſed com­
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              paratè duntaxat ad ſitum eiuſdem animalis, cuius
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              partes dextra, ac ſiniſtra ſunt propriæ. </s>
              <s id="id.000776">Ex quo fit,
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              vt quemadmodum pars mundi oriens tibi dextra non
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              dicitur, niſi quatenùs partem dextram ad ipſum con­
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              uertis; cùm ſi conuerteris ſiniſtram, ſiniſtra exſti­
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              tura ſit; ita pars mundi verticalis non dicatur eſſe ſu­
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              prema, niſi quatenùs partem tui ſupremam ipſi ob­
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              uerſam habes; cùm ſi ad antipodas tranſiens obuer­
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              teris infimam, eadem ſit infima futura. </s>
              <s id="id.000777">Dices infi­
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              mum accipiendum non eſſe in mundi extremo, ſed
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              ſolùm in centro, ſeu in medio, quod idem ſit cen­
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              trum, ſeu medium Telluris. </s>
              <s id="id.000778">At primùm, licet con­
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              cedatur habere mundum centrum, ſeu medium;
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              non ſequitur nihilominùs poſſe illud infimum dici;
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              vt neque licet vmbilicus ſit media in homine pars, di­
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              ci proptereà infima poteſt Et ſanè, quod opponi­
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              tur medio, non ſupremum eſt, ſed extremum, ſunt­
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              que ſupremum, & infimum oppoſitæ partes in eo­
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              dem extremo; etiam in ipſa Terra; cuius locum me­
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              dium non alia ratione infimum habemus, quam vt
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              ipſam (ſic loqui liceat) infimitatem bipartiamur, qua
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              nos antipodibus, antipodes nobis infimi videntur.
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              <s id="id.000779">Deinde, ecquis dicere valeat, an, & qualis ſit pars mun­
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              di extrema, ac proinde an, & vbi ſit illius centrum,
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              ſeu medium; præſertìm verò cùm videamus non abs
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              ratione controuerſi, moueantur-ne fixæ circa Ter­
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              ram, an-non; & ſint-ne omnes in eadem ſuperficie, </s>
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