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

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              Vt hoc obiter heic attingam; dum vides maiorem
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              grauitatem, ſiue attractionem imprimi ſerro à ma­
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              gnete, quàm ab ipſa Terra (à qua etiam magnes,
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              dum ſuſpenditur, ferrum abducit) non id videtur
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              eſſe aliunde, quàm ex eo, quòd virtus attractrix eſt
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              in magnete collectior, atque adeò intenſior pro mo­
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              dulo corporis, quàm in ipſo corpore Terræ, in quo
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              extenſior eſt, neque in ſingulis partibus, ſed in to­
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              to ſolùm explicatur quanta eſt tota; eo modo, quo
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              ſi linguam grano ſalis admoueas, id ipſam poten­
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              tius afficiet, quàm oceanus; non quod totus ocea­
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              nus ſalſedinis amplius non habeat, ſed quòd ſal­
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              ſedo in oceano diffuſior ſit, neque, quà linguam ad­
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              moues, adeò collecta, & explicita, ac in grano
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              vnico ſalis. </s>
              <s id="id.000790">Magnetem, & ferrum vt mittam, cùm
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              grauitas lapidis in Terram cadentis intendatur, & ex
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              nouorum graduum acceſſione maior euadat; ac iſta
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              intenſio, ſeu graduum acceſſio non videatur aliun­
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              de eſſe, quàm ex ipſa Terræ attractione (adjuncta
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              modo expoſito impulſione aëris) ecquid nam pro­
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              babilius eſt, quàm gradum grauitatis primum, la­
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              pidique nondum moto conuenientem, ex eadem eſſe
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              attractione? </s>
              <s id="id.000791">Eadem ſanè eſt grauitatis ſpecies, neque
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              qualitas vlla meliùs, quàm à congenea intenditur.
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              <s id="id.000792">An interim forte hærebis, quòd de leuitate grauita­
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              ti oppoſita, nonnulliſque corporibus conueniente
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              nihil intermiſceam? </s>
              <s id="id.000793">Sed facio nempe, quòd leuitas
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              nihil aliud ſit quàm grauitas minor; ſicque hæ duæ
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              ſint
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              , ſeu proprietates corporum non ab­
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              ſolutæ, ſed reſpectiuæ; quatenùs nempe vnum cor-</s>
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