Casati, Paolo, Terra machinis mota : dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae physicae hydrostaticae

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              aquæ particulas ſecum rapit ſurſum; donec
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              demum præter aquam ſponte adhærentem
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              lateribus, tantum aquæ ab aere ſuſtineatur,
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              vt eam dimittere non poſſit, quin ipſe magis
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              diſtrahatur & rareſcat: id quod natura potiùs
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              refugit, quàm permittere tantillæ aquæ
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              ſuſpenſionem. </s>
              <s>Niſi fortè malles dicere, a­
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              quam illam medullarem conſtitutam intrà
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              aquam lateribus adhærentem iam non conari
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              deorſum. </s>
              <s>Quando verò amplior eſt fiſtulæ
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              capacitas, conſtat
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              non tantâ velocita­
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              te per eam ferri ſurſum cæteris paribus, ac per
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              fiſtulam tenuiorem, & præterea cylindrulus
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              aquæ ſurſum attractus ampliorem habet ba­
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              ſim, & in minori altitudine habetur tota ea
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              quantitas aquæ, quæ valet ab aere ſuſtentari:
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              hinc fit eò minùs aquam attolli, quò am­
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              plior eſt fiſtula. </s>
              <s>Mitto hìc diſputare an in­
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              ſenſibilis aquæ expiratio adhærens fiſtulæ,
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              vel in eam incurrens, excitet electricam
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              vitri expirationem; an verò ea fiſtulam le­
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              uiſſimè humectans, dum attactu illo ſtatim
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              concreſcit, ſtatim ſubiectam aquam attrahat
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              vt ſibi veniat, quemadmodum in calamo
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              ſcriptorio ſæpe obſeruare eſt, quando atra­
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              mento valdè diluto vtimur; vix enim hu­
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              mens calamus ſubiectum atramentum con­
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              tingit, cum eo confeſtim imbuitur. </s>
              <s>Hæc </s>
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