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

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              conſequenter intelligitur, non poſſe ſtellas appare­
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              re amplioris magnitudinis ex Tropico vno, quàm ex
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              alio; cùm acceſſus, & receſſus ſenſibilis non ſit, &
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              duæ ſtationes non poſſint haberi quaſi diſſitæ, quæ in
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              eodem quaſi puncto aſſumuntur. </s>
              <s id="id.000881">Quod ad immuta­
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              tam Poli altitudinem attinet, facit eadem axis con­
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              tinentia, orbiſque magni exilitas, vt inuariata ad ſen­
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              ſum appareat. </s>
              <s id="id.000882">Reuoca in mentem duos circulos, quos
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              dictum eſt ab axe Terræ continüari intellecto deſcri­
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              bi vtrimque in Firmamenti fornice; ipſi, tametſi æ­
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              quatori orbis magni æquales ſint, ob immenſam ta­
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              men diſtantiam, habentur quaſi duo puncta, eáque
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              de cauſa depictos voluï quaſi terminos ingentis co­
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              lumnæ; quòd cùm ſit perſpicuum columnæ, aut
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                iuſcunque</expan>
              rei, cuius latera parallela ſint, craſſitudinem
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              tantò magis decreſcere ad viſum,
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              ſpectatur re­
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              motiùs, ideò liceat concipere tam procùl extendi co­
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              lumnam, cuius craſſitudo ſit magni orbis diameter,
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              vt eiuſmodi craſſitudo ſensìm, ſenſimque extenüata,
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              & pro pyramide habita in verticem deſinat, qui (æ­
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              qualis licet magni orbis diametro) habeatur à viſu
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              pro vnico puncto; idque ſeu in boream, vt à nobis
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              fit, ſeu in auſtrum, vt ab Antipodibus, ſpectetur. </s>
              <s id="id.000883">Ita­
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              que tales duo circuli, ſeu talia duo puncta ſunt no­
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              bis duo poli, quorum vnus ſemper eandem elatio­
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              nem, alter eandem ſemper depreſſionem ſeruat, quòd
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              tametſi ſpatio ſex menſium tantum mutetur, quanta
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              eſt diameter magni orbis, mutatio tamen eſt quaſi
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              puncti, ſiue fit in puncto, cuius latera, & à centro, &
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              inter ſe, quod ad ſenſum ſpectat, non diſtant. </s>
              <s id="id.000884">Vnde, vt </s>
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