Fabri, Honoré, Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, 1665

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              inquam prædictum flumen influit, cùm interjectus vaſtiſſimus Americæ
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              tractus obſtet; ſecat etiam Æquatorem in grad. Longit.75. Sed hic locus
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              non mari ſed terris incubat, ducitur enim per mediam ferè Æthiopiam
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              & Africam ab Auſtro in Boream; igitur cùm mare non premat, nullus in­
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              de preſſionis effectus ſequitur. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.001470"> Antequam ad ſecundam difficultatem orationem convertas,
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              hæc quam expoſuiſti, mihi priùs ſolvenda eſt; & fateor, vel nullam, vel
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              minimam preſſionis vim à ſemicirculo maximæ preſſionis per mare pa­
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              cificum ducto, ad grad, Longit. 255. ad oſtia præfati fluminis traduci, pro­
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              pter interjectum continentis Americæ impedimentum; dixi vel mini­
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              mam, quia negari non poteſt, traduci aliquam tum versùs Auſtrum per
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              freta Magellanicum, Marium &c. </s>
              <s id="s.001471">tum versùs Septentrionem per freta
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              Daviſium, Hudſonium &c. </s>
              <s id="s.001472">Fateor etiam minimam vim traduci ad præfa­
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              ta oſtia à ſemicirculo ortivo maximæ preſſionis Æquatorem ſecante ad
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              grad Longit.75. cùm major illius pars ſit inutilis, arcus verò vtiles hinc
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              versùs Septentrionem, indèversùs Auſtrum, à promontorio, quod bo­
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              næ Spei vocant, excurrant, cùm tamen vis preſſionis non tantùm ſit
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              à prædicto circulo maximo, ſed etiam ab aliis minoribus parallelis,
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              prædictæ elevationis ad illa oſtia pluſquam ſufficientem cauſam ha­
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              bemus. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.001474"> Cur verò ad 300. milliaria per alveum fluminis æſtus aſ­
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              cendit? </s>
              <s id="s.001475">cùm tamen ad oram Guineæ oppoſitam longè minus aſcendat:
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              & hæc eſt altera difficultas. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.001477"> Ex illo communi preſſionis niſu, motus quidam mixtus vel
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              ejuſdem motus linea reſultat, ſecundùm quam æſtus in oram excurrit; cùm
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              igitur circuli preſſionum, qui mari Atlantico incumbunt, aquam attol­
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              lant extrudantque quaſi versùs Auſtrum, ac proinde versùs Borealem
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              Americæ oram; circuli verò qui Æthiopicum premunt, extrudant aquam
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              per fauces illas inter Braſiliam & Africam interceptas, versùs Caurum;
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              ex vtroque niſu, mixtus quidam reſultat verſus Libycum, ac proinde in
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              oſtia præfati fluminis, quaſi directè incidit æſtus; Quid mirum igitur, ſi
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              longiùs excurrat? </s>
              <s id="s.001478">accedit quod fluminis alveus per 10. integros gradus
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              id eſt 600.milliaria, quaſi ſecundùm rectam lineam versùs Libycum fer­
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              tur; quod reverà plurimùm confert ad hoc, vt æſtus per dictum alveum
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              longius excurrat: At verò ad oram Guineæ licèt rapidiſſimus æſtus aſ­
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              ſurgat torrentis ad inſtar, quia in prædictam oram ad Auſtrum conver­
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              ſam, versùs Boream extruſus quaſi directè fertur; non tamen per alveum
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              fluminum longè excurrit, cùm nec ſint capaces alvei, nec ſecundùm di­
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              rectam lineam eant, neque, vt vides in hoc globo, Guinea magnos flu­
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              vios habeat; equidem ad 7. grad. Latit. Auſtralis magnus fluvius Zaire in
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              Oceanum influit, ſed à 6. gradu ad promontorium bonæ Spei perexiguus
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              æſtus eſt; præterquam quòd linea æſtus in eo tractu; (ſic deinceps appel­
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              labo) tendit ad Vulturnum, vel Euronotum; vnde valdè obliquè in oram
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              illabitur; non mirum igitur ſi potiùs præterfluat, quàm irrumpat. </s>
              <s id="s.001479">Vnum
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              omiſeram, ſcilicet, Oceanum Æthiopicum in iis faucibus, quas in </s>
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