Schott, Gaspar, Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica. Pars I. Mechanicae Hydraulico-pnevmaticae Theoriam continet. , 1657

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              ſuprema verò ſuperficies vaſis B eſt altior, & debet fieri æqua­
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              litas inter ipſas: quæ non fieret, ſi aqua ſiphonis BF, ſeu EF, de­
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              ſcenderet. </s>
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              <s>Ad ſecundam, non effluere aquam per brevius, ſed per lon­
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              gius crus, quia aqua amat continuitatem ſuarum partium, & ap­
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              petit habere ſuperficiem ſupremam omnium partium æqualiter
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              diſtantem à centro Terræ; quorum utrumque obtinet, ſi ef­
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              fluit aqua per longius crus; neutrum, ſi per brevius. </s>
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              <s>Ad Tertiam, ideo non effluere aquam è crure breviore, ſed
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              è longiore, quia aqua cruris brevioris eſt altior, & aqua cruris
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              longioris declivior: curruntautem aquæ continuatæ partes alti­
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              ores ad decliviores naturaliter, & non hæ ad illas. </s>
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              Authoris o­
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              pinio circa
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              aquæ
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              è crure ex­
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              terno longio
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              re ſiphonis.
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              <s>Sed quidquid ſit de hac Heronis ſententia, mihi magis pla­
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              cet ſequens ratio allati phænomeni, quæ univerſalis eſt & in
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              omnibus ſimilibus caſibus locum habet, ut vidimus in præce­
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              dentibus, & iterum videbimus infrà hoc eodem capite Propo­
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              ſit. 13. & 14. </s>
              <s>Pro qua recolendum eſt, quod diximus ſuprà Ca­
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              pite 1. Proprietate IV. ex Archimede, aquæ & humidi cujuſcun­
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              que partem unamquamque premi humido ſupra ipſam exiſtente
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              ad perpendiculum, ſi humidum ſit deſcendens in aliquo, aut cer­
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              tè nullum habeat impedimentum, ut deſcendat. </s>
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              <s>Dico itaque, cauſam hujus rei eſſe eandem cum ea, quæ
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              adſignata fuit in præcedentibus, quia nimirum aqua cruris lon­
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              gioris potentior eſt ad deſcendendum, ſecumque trahendum
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              aquam cruris brevioris, quàm aqua cruris alterius; & hoc ideo,
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              quia aqua premit ac premitur, dum premit ac premitur, ad per­
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              pendiculum, hoc eſt, ſecundùm lineam quæ tranſit per centrum
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              Mundi. </s>
              <s>Cujus ergo aquæ perpendiculum longius eſt, illa ma­
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              gis premit ac vincit, hoc eſt, deſcendit, ſi nihil obſtet deſcen­
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              ſum impediens, ut in noſtro caſu contingit. </s>
              <s>Hîc ergo verum
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              etiam eſt, quòd
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              in Hydraulicis pugnatur & vincitur non pondere,
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              aut copi aquarum, ſed perpendiculis,
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              juxta Axioma hydraulicum,
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              2. quod ſuprà Propoſitione 2, formatum fuit. </s>
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