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

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              firmamentum, ſeu cælum ſtellatum, quod Tycho
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              diſtare à Terra admittit terrenis ſemidiametris qua­
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              ter decies mille. </s>
              <s id="id.000832">Conſidera ſecundò hanc diſtan­
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              tiam non obſeruatione, ſed conjectura, & mero
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              arbitratu aſſumi: quoniam cum ægrè emetiri liceat
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              diſtantiam, quæ eſt heinc vſque ad Saturnum, quòd
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              nos parallaxis, vt vocant, deficiat (hoc eſt, quòd
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              tanta magnitudo, quanta eſt Terræ ſemidiameter,
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              ex cuius comparatione cæleſtia ſpatia menſuramus,
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              non ampliùs appareat, ſed ad viſum planè, ob
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              nimiam elongationem euaneſcat) neceſſe eſt quic­
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              quid ſpatiorum eſt vltra Saturnum, menſuram om­
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              nem fugiat, &, ſi quiſpiam definiat, pro mero arbi­
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              trio id faciat. </s>
              <s id="id.000833">Conſidera rurſùs, non eſſe proinde,
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              cur communìs ſententia aſſumat diſtantiam huiuſ­
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              cemodi; & Pythagoreorum, Copernicanorumve
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              ſententiæ non liceat aſſumere diſtantiam millies aut
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              etiam decies millies maiorem. </s>
              <s id="id.000834">Nam, vt illa argu­
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              mentatur non eſſe, cur cenſeamus Deum facere
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              voluiſſe Mundum adeò vaſtum; ſic iſta, non eſſe,
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              cur cenſeamus Deum facere voluiſſe adeò anguſtum;
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              & cùm neutra probare experientia, ſeu obſeruatio­
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              ne poſſit quid Deo placuerit; videtur poſterior,
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              dum naturæ rerum majeſtatem amplificat, com­
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              mendare magis & potentiam; & magnificentiam
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              Opificis ſummi, quàm prior. </s>
              <s id="id.000835">At, inquies, ſi tanta
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              Fixarum diſtantia ſtatuatur, vt hic magnus Telluris
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              orbis Venerem, Mercurium, & Solem complectens
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              pro puncto habeatur, fore ergo Solem tantò ma­
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              gis punctum; quare neque fore, vt Sol ſit ex Fi-</s>
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