Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              aëris non parum, qui intrò latens, multò le­
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              uiores eos reddit, iidem excocti, aërêque re­
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              ſoluto grauiores efficiuntur, quamque humi­
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              dum abſumptum ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.005246">Etenin ſi pluſquàm par
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              ſit torreantur, ferro ſimiles colore, pondere,
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              duritiéque euadunt: ſed cùm minores fiant,
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              autoritati Leonardi Iacchini inniti cogor.
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              <s id="s.005247">An verò paruitas illa fiat grauitatis & colo­
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              ris cauſa eadem eſſe poteſt: prauitas pro ra­
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              tione materiæ, at paruitas ipſa fit coacto
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              per vim, & liqueſcente terra, quæ metal­
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              licum quid retinet, vnde fermè ſemper plus
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              quàm par ſit excocti inflectuntur, atque in­
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              curuatur. </s>
              <s id="s.005248">Illud verò magna dubitatione di­
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              gnum, cur intermiſſo igne in fornacibus, vel
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              breui momento lateres frangantur. </s>
              <s id="s.005249">Id verò
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              non ſemper, ſed cùm calor immodicus igne
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              ceſſante contrahitur frangit lateres. </s>
              <s id="s.005250">Ideò
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              cùm denuò accenditur etiam frangit: nam
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              quæ iam ſicca ſunt, cùm nouo calore fer­
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              uent, diſrumpuntur: ſicut de viro patet. </s>
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              Later crudus
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              dum exco­
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              quitur pon­
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              dere auge­
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              tur.</s>
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              Lateres in­
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              termiſſo in
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              fornacibus
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              igne ſran­
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              guntur.</s>
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              <s id="s.005253">Cauſa eſt, quoniam antequàm liqueſcat,
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              & molliatur quod durum eſt, flatu diſtenden­
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              te rumpitur. </s>
              <s id="s.005254">Ob eam igitur inæqualitatem
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              magna iactura figulis. </s>
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              <s id="s.005255">Nec verò, vt ad primum reuertar in­
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              ſtitutum, gemmas ſolùm ars fabricat adul­
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              terinas, ſed & lapides atque etiam cotes.
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              Ex Smiri primò cotes fiunt, quæ gemmas
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              atterunt, & ex Geode geodes, & ex co­
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              tibus alijs cotes ſui generis: teruntur tenui­
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              ter ſingula horum, provt libuerit aliquid
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              conficere tale, & candido oui, oleo lini,
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              & l iuniperi lachryma excipiuntur, ſiccantúr­
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              que ſub arena. </s>
              <s id="s.005256">Fit & lithoſtroton, quo pa­
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              uimenta templorum figuris variantur ho­
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              minum, ferarum arborúmque, vt Conſtan­
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              tinopoli in æde Sapientiæ, Venetiis beati
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              Marci, & Florentiæ beati Ioannis Baptiſtæ:
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              aut muri, vt Mediolani in æde beati Lau­
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              rentij, ex fruſtulis lapidum diuerſorum co­
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              lorum, albis, rubris, cæruleis, viridibus, ni­
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              gris, glutino tenaci inuicem iunctis, vt non
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              ſolam formam, ſed & colorem imagines
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              referant. </s>
              <s id="s.005257">Fit Maltha perpetua pro hoc ope­
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              re ex calce & ſuillo adipe, vel pice, aut oui
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              candido: hæc præcipuè aquis reſiſtit, vnde
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              etiam canales producendis aquis iunguntur
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              ea. </s>
              <s id="s.005258">Alia ad eundem vſum optima, conſtat
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              calce, oui candido, oleo, ferri ſcobe, ma­
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              rinis vmbilicis: ac canales ipſi fiunt ex li­
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              gnis abietis, vel alni, aut piceæ, vel picea­
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              ſtri: habent enim hæc ligna humidum pin­
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              gue valde & calidum, vnde aquarum iniu­
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              riis maximè reſiſtunt. </s>
              <s id="s.005259">Fiunt & è plumbo,
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              ſed optimi atque æterni ex ære. </s>
              <s id="s.005260">Pro regula
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              enim haberi poteſt, quòd omnia quæ ignis
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              iuſtò plus exuſſit, vt carbones, æs, ſulphur,
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              ab aqua nunquam, etiamſi millibus anno­
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              rum in ea perſiſterent, corrumpuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.005261">Sed ad
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              iungendos lapides, aut marmoris fragmenta
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              Maltha ſufficit, ex puluere marmoris, & oui
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              candido, aut pice confecta. </s>
              <s id="s.005262">Palàm igitur eſt,
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              cur aliqua in aquis incorrupta maneant, &
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              quæ: alia tamen ob denſitatem aquarum
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              iniuriæ obnoxia minimè ſunt, ſed tamen in
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              illis cortex corrumpitur. </s>
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              Cotes adul­
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              terinæ quæ
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              gemmas at­
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              terunt.</s>
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              Lithoſtroton.</s>
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              Maltha pe­
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              rennis.</s>
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              Aquarum
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              ductus è
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              quibus.</s>
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              Omnis mate­
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              ria in
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              plus iuſtò
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              agit ignis
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              armarum in
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              iuriis perpe­
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              tuò reſiſtet.</s>
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              <s id="s.005268">Sed his relictis ad gemmarum hiſtoriam
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              redeo. </s>
              <s id="s.005269">Cùm verò de his dictum abundè ſit,
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              quæ ſub terra & in aquis
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              aut inter lapi­
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              des concreſcunt, nunc de his quæ in ani­
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              malibus naſcuntur ſermo habendus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.005270">Et
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              quamuis gemmas veras in animalibus inue­
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              niri poſſe credatur, nullam tamen veram
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              gemmam è corpore animalis alicuius detra­
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              ctam ad hanc vſque diem vidi: raráſque
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              omninò eſſe oportet illas, quòd à frigore
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              concreſcant. </s>
              <s id="s.005271">Indicio eſt à frigore gemmas
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              concreſcere: primùm, quòd inter lapides &
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              locis frigidiſſimis oriantur. </s>
              <s id="s.005272">Deinde, quòd
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              etiam à frigore ſeruentur, à calore debili­
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              tentur, & vitientur: aquea etiam ſubſtantia
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              non niſi gelu concreta ſplendet, velut in
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              glacie: at gemmæ omnes nitent, pleræque
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              etiam perſpicuæ ſunt. </s>
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              etiam igni­
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              bus, adeò vt poſſint perforari: vt adamas alię
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                <expan abbr="etiã">etiam</expan>
              magis,
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              etiam liqueſcunt: molleſ­
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              cit & liquatur, ſed difficillimè, hyacinthus,
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              facilè verò cryſtallus. </s>
              <s id="s.005274">Eſt etiam frigiditatis
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              omnium lapidum argentum haud dubium,
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              & ſi reliqua deeſſent, cactus ipſe. </s>
              <s id="s.005275">Ergo ſi fri­
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              gore concreſcunt lapides, gemmæ autem vt
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              duriores maiore, nihil mirum eſt non gene­
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              rari gemmas in animalibus, vbi nihil eſſe
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              poteſt frigidiſſimum. </s>
              <s id="s.005276">Sed ſi omninò gene­
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              ratur aliquis lapis, qualis Alectorius, ſi gem­
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              ma ſit, aut vires habeat, vita carere non po­
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              teſt. </s>
              <s id="s.005277">Gemma enim quòd durior ſit, cùm li­
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              ma haud tangatur, calore concreſcere non
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              poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.005278">Quòd verò frigore fit impenetrabile,
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              viuere neceſſe eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.005279">Non igitur dura poteſt
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              eſſe in animali gemma, nam non tam li­
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              quido humore nutriri poſſet, quale eſt id
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              quod in animali ſecernitur: neque mollis,
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              quia gemma non eſſet, imò neque lapis.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.005280">Ab initio igitur per ſpiritum & humorem
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              gemmam viuere neceſſe eſt, atque mollem
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              ob id eſſe: inde paulatim hebetata vita, ve­
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              lut in vteri mola concreſcere calore, donec
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              adeò dura reddatur, vt non poſſit amplius
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              augeri: tunc verò frigore concreſcere, do­
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              nec extracta, vel mertuo animali abſolua­
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              tur: nam eo viuente, perfici & perfectè du­
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              reſcere non poteſt. </s>
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              Cur verè
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              gemmæ ra­
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              riſſima in
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              animalibus.</s>
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              Lapides om­
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              nes frigore
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              concreſcere,
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              quinque ra­
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              tionibus
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              oſtenditur.</s>
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              <s id="s.005283">Precioſiſſima autem, quod ſciam, ex his
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              eſt margarita, quæ corticibus quibuſdam
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              conſtat rotundis. </s>
              <s id="s.005284">Naſcuntur ex conchyliis
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              rotundis nobiliores, ſed tamen minus ro­
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              tundæ: aliæ ignobiles rotundæ ex oblon­
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              gis, quaſi contraria ratione. </s>
              <s id="s.005285">Striatum ge­
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              nus conchyliorum vtrumque, & in imo ma­
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              ri moram ducens. </s>
              <s id="s.005286">Fabuloſum itaque eas ex
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              cœli rore concipere. </s>
              <s id="s.005287">Ignobile margarita­
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              rum genus ex Nacaronibus (ſic enim oſtrea
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              vocant longa) ſeu melius dicam conchylia,
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              quòd ſtriata ſint, naſcitur. </s>
              <s id="s.005288">Seneſcit celerri­
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              mè margarita, nec in hoc lapidibus ſimilis.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.005289">Mittit Indicum mare Boreale iuxta Cuba­
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              gua inſulam, auſtrale iuxta Terarequi: naſ­
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              cuntur & aliis pluribus locis. </s>
              <s id="s.005290">Maxima laus
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              eſt in candore, ſplendore, ac rotundita­
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              te. </s>
              <s id="s.005291">Inuenitur in conchyliis, oſtreiſve iuxta
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              Britanniam,
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              in Indico mari. </s>
              <s id="s.005292">Vna
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              in theca plurimæ ſunt margaritæ,
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              maximè
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                <expan abbr="minimarũ">minimarum</expan>
              , vnde harum copia ſuprà
                <expan abbr="fidẽ">fidem</expan>
              : ma­
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              gnæ raræ ſunt: quæ vitio careant: & magnæ,
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              ſunt rariſſimæ
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              :
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              repurgant
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              , tenuem­
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              que habent
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              . </s>
              <s id="s.005293">Sed colos eis vt pſeu-</s>
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