Viviani, Vincenzo, De maximis et minimis, geometrica divinatio : in qvintvm Conicorvm Apollonii Pergaei

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            prima Conicæ Matheſeos elementa balbutire didici, annis duodeui-
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            ginti iam expletis, ſtatim ea cura in animo ſedit (mihi equidem vni
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            placere certum, ac prurienti genio obſecundare) inueſtigandi quid
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            APOLLONIO propoſitum in libris deperditis, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s38" xml:space="preserve">qua in parte Co-
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            nicæ theoriæ verſarentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s39" xml:space="preserve">Quinti autem libri hypotheſis præcipuè
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            me trahebat, vbi ex prima APOLLONII epiſtola ad Eudemum, de
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            MINIMIS, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s40" xml:space="preserve">MAXIMIS magna ſui parte agi non ignorabatur, de-
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            que MINIMIS, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s41" xml:space="preserve">MAXIMIS lineis ad ipſas Coni-ſectionum peri-
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            pherias, referente Eutocio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s42" xml:space="preserve">Qua autem ratione, aut quid ſpeciatim
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            colligeretur in ipſo quinti argumento, diuinationi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s43" xml:space="preserve">coniecturæ tan-
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            tùm relinquebatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s44" xml:space="preserve">In hac ergo cogitatione defixus, ſuſceptam Spar-
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            tam exornare vehementiori in dies ſtudio contendebam, ac biennij
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            ſpatio cæmenta abundè creuer@nt hiſce mox libris condendis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s45" xml:space="preserve">noua
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            ſcilicet quotidie ſuccurrebant huius diuinationis occaſione, quæ cupi-
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            ditatem, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s46" xml:space="preserve">laborem intenderent, donec paulatim in hunc, maiorem-
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            que numerum aucta, ad vniuerſam de MAXIMIS, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s47" xml:space="preserve">MINIMIS per-
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            tractationem ſe ſe extenderint. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s48" xml:space="preserve">Sed vix diuinæ huius Geometriæ au-
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            guſtiſſimum limen ſubieram, cum inuidis caſibus, domeſticis præſer-
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            tim turbamentis iactatus, pedem illinc cogor referre, indolique reſ-
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            ponſare; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s49" xml:space="preserve">per trina iam luſtra in alias curas proiectus, quæ inuita Ma-
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            theſi ſuſcipiuntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s50" xml:space="preserve">Quare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s51" xml:space="preserve">priuatis concoquendis negotijs diſten-
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            tus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s52" xml:space="preserve">publicis auocatus, dum alia qualiſcunque operæ meæ obſequia
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            SERENISS. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s53" xml:space="preserve">MAGNODVCI præſtare debeo, morbis ad hæc ſæpe
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            incurrentibus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s54" xml:space="preserve">atque incerta vſus valetudine, non hanc tantùm de
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            MAXIMIS, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s55" xml:space="preserve">MINIMIS ritè diſponere, ac perficere quiui, verùm
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            nec aliam vllam è geometricis meis commentationibus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s56" xml:space="preserve">quarum ta-
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            men, nec pauca ſchedulis commendaueram, vti per tempus ſubſe-
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            ciuum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s57" xml:space="preserve">curis ſubtractum multiplicibus, furari induſtriam licuerat.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s58" xml:space="preserve">Id vnum ſolatio fuit, hæc cum Amicis participaſſe honeſtiſſimis, ſicu-
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            ti factum memini tredecim plus minus ab hinc annis: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s59" xml:space="preserve">cum Amicis in-
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            quam, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s60" xml:space="preserve">huiuſce ſtudij amatoribus, quibuſque haud retuſum erat pa-
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            latum ad noua hæc veritatum ſcitamenta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s61" xml:space="preserve">Vnus vtinam, vt credere
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            pium eſt, tardior Diuorum Comes (cur autem inuideo?) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s62" xml:space="preserve">mihi teſtis
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            ſupereſſet Amicorum optimus, ac ſuauiſſimus, cui nihil iam eſt, quod
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            pro illius meritis in me ingentibus reddam, præter grati animi inge-
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            nuam profeſſionem, ac ſi quid mihi erit vnquam voc (is), aut ſoni præ-
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            ſtantiſſimarum eius virtutum fidam omni tempore commemorationẽ
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            Braccium loquor Manettum, cuius laudes piaculum eſt ignorare, ſiue
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            generis nobilitatem, cum morum elegantia ſumma probitate </s>
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