Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              audacter etiam affirmet ſe item eadem methodo expertum
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              eſſe spatia ęqualibus temporibus emenſa eam inter ſe ratio­
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              nem obſeruare, quæ inter numeros omneis impareis ab vni­
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              tate continua ſerie procedenteis inuenitur; & in hac tamen
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              poſteriore obſeruatione vehementer errauerit, magnoperè
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              verendum eſſe, ne in priore quoque non minùs hallucinatus
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              ſit.
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              <s id="s.000777"> Dicis deinde,
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              Satis non eſſe, ſi tempus habeatur, quo
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              prima quælibet pars deſignati spatij tranſmittitur, niſi tem­
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              pus quoque cognoſcatur, quo pars ſequens priori æqualis, vel
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              duæ medietates primę ſeorſim decurruntur; quod tamen
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              exactè determinare,
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              inquis,
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              per quam difficile arbitror, ob
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              cauſſas iam ſæpiùs adductas.
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              <s id="s.000778"> Et quænam quidem fue­
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              tamen candorem commendo, quo dicis Tertiò,
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              te qua­
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              cúmque diligentia adhibita nihil habere potuiſſe, in quo in­
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              tellectus conquieſceret:
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              ac author es; vt ſi aliquis ſe id
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              fœliciùs aſſequi poſſe confidat,
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              turrim ſatis excelſam
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              eligat, puta
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              200
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              pedum; ac deinde aliam altitudinem duplò
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              præcisè minorem, pedum videlicet centum; & ex vtraque
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              altitudine, tempus deſcenſus exactißimè inquirat; tum mino­
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              re tempore, ex maiore ſubducto, reſiduum daturum tempus
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              deſcenſus per turris maioris centum pedes infimos: tempus
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              verò illud minus, quo idem corpus ex ſola centum pedum al­
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              titudine deſcendet, ęquale tempori futurum, quo ex maiori
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              quoque altitudine, per centum pedes ſuperiores deſcenderit.
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              <s id="s.000779">XLVI. </s>
              <s id="s.000780">Ad primum porrò quod attinet; videtur
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              ille teſtatur ſe ſæpiùs, ac diligenter peregiſſe, niſi teſte­
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              ris temetipſum idem tentaſſe, peregiſſeque, ac fuiſſe
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