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

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              lippinas & Iaponicas, mare ita in ortum movetur, vt hinc paucis diebus in
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              Californiam navigetur; quia cùm ſub Zona torrida in toto mari Pacifico
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              æſtus & aqua in occaſum liberè feratur, modico circuitu facto refluit per
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              Septemtrionalem oram Americæ, quam relegit: cujus ſanè mirabilis effe­
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              ctus alia ratio eſſe non poteſt. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.001545"> Haud dubiè rem citiùs expedies, ſicut Oceanus, ita & oratio
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              tua terrarum oras breviter & raptim ipſum æſtum æmulata, præterlegat,
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              initio ducto v.g. à Gaditano freto. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.001547"> Libenter faciam & ne prolixior evadam, rem ſanè in pauca con­
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              traham, præſertim cum & Mediterraneum & maximam Oceani partem jam
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              luſtraverimus; & primo loco à prædicto freto Gaditano versùs Boream aſ­
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              cendam, majoríſque diſtinctionis gratia numeros adhibebo. </s>
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              <s id="s.001548">Primò, Occurrit Ora Bæticæ in quam ſatis magnus æſtus incidit Cæciam
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              versùs cùm vis maxima preſſionis ab Africo veniat; hinc quia directè in
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              Bætim ſubit, ad 30. milliaria fluvius regreditur; ſecus verò Anas non pro­
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              cul hinc diſtans; quia in ejus oſtia æſtus obliquè incidit; hujus enim flumi­
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              nis curſus in Auſtrum recta linea tendit. </s>
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              <s id="s.001549">Secundo. </s>
              <s id="s.001550">Succedit ora Hiſpaniæ occidua, quæ recta ferè ad Septentrio­
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              nem ducitur, in qua æſtus modicus eſt, quia incidit per eandem lineam ver­
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              ſus Cæciam; igitur obliquè; paulò tamen major eſt, ad oſtia Tagi, quia
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              ille tractus quaſi quoddam æſtui illabenti receptaculum & ſinum
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              aperit. </s>
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              <s id="s.001551">Tertiò. </s>
              <s id="s.001552">In ora boreali Hiſpaniæ nullus, vel modicus eſt, nempe hic quo­
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              que fertur in Cæciam, propter rationem adductam; nempe à Septemtrio­
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              ne Inſulæ Britannicæ, & minor Britannia magnum obicem ponunt; cùm
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              igitur æſtus in Cæciam eat, vix in prædictum litus incidit; id que ferè vſque
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              ad oſtia Garumnæ, ibi enim, & ad rotam oram Aquitanicam, immo ad
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              extremum vſque minoris Britanniæ promontorium magnus æſtus eſt; nem­
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              pe ibi mare ad inſtar ſinus in terras excurrit, & propter adductam ratio­
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              nem in Cæciam æſtus currit: vnde ſatis directè illabitur, præſertim in oram
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              Meridionalem minoris Britanniæ. </s>
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              <s id="s.001553">Quartò Ad extremam oram, occiduam ſcilicet, minoris Britannię à fonte­
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              navia ad promontorium Clarium, currit æſtus ab Hypotraſcia, ac proinde
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              obliquè incidit, & minùs aſſurgit licèt rapidiſſimus ſit in freto fontenaviæ,
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              propter anguſtias; ſic autem incidit, quia ab ea parte liberiùs excurrit; con­
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              trahitur enim Oceanus in hoc tractu versùs occaſum; hinc eò currit æſtus,
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              vt fit in reliquis ſinubus, ac proinde obliquè incidit, & minor eſt; haud
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              procul verò, quia lunatur mare vulturnum versùs in minorem & acu­
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              tiorem ſinum, eò directè fertur æſtus, & hic maximè aſſurgit ad fanum ſcili­
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              cet S. Maclovij, & ad Sanctum Michaelem, non procul hinc ſitum; inde
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              porrò Cadomum vſque currit versùs Libycum, ac proinde obliquiùs; per
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              aliam autem lineam vix in hanc oram Neuſtriæ incidere poteſt, vt patet ex
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              ipſa inſpectione; cùm vis preſſionis à mari Germanico per fretum Gallicum
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              eò traducatur; ad oſtia Sequanæ altiùs aſſurgit æſtus, quia illic mare luna­
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              tur in ſinum. </s>
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