Biancani, Giuseppe, Aristotelis loca mathematica, 1615

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              IN MECHANICAS QVÆSTIONES.
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              <s id="s.002576">Qvidquid Mathematicum in his quæſtionibus occurret, illud, vt
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              plurimum per paraphraſim exponemus, ita tamen, vt tex. Ariſt.
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              & figuræ textui reſpondentes per eam, quantum fieri poterit re­
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              ſtituantur, & ſi quæ ſe offerent difficilia, pro viribus ſoluantur.
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              <s id="s.002577">Eſt autem nonnullis in locis textus tam græcus, quàm latinus adeò corrup­
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              tus, ac deprauatus, vt nullo modo emendari queat.</s>
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              Caput Primum.
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              <s id="s.002579">Quæ ſit artis Mechanicæ facultas.</s>
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              238</s>
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              <s id="s.002582">Eorum, quæ miraculo ſunt, alia quidem natura contingunt,
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              ; ea,
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              quorum ignorantur cauſæ: alia verò ſunt, quæ præter naturam per
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              artificium aliquod ad hominum vtilitatem perficiuntur, in multis
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                <expan abbr="namq;">namque</expan>
              natura ei, quod nobis vſui eſſe poteſt, contrarium facit, quod
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              inde oritur, quia natura eundem ſemper, ac ſimplicem ſeruat modum: quod
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              autem nobis vtile eſt, plurimas ſubit varietates. </s>
              <s id="s.002583">quando igitur quippiam
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              præter naturam facere opportuerit, illud, quod faciendum eſt, difficultate
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              ſua nos remoratur,
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              ; propterea indigemus. </s>
              <s id="s.002584">quamobrem eam artis
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              partem, quæ huiuſmodi ſuccurrit difficultatibus, Mechanicam appellamus.
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              <s id="s.002585">Cæterùm optimè Antiphon Poeta in hunc modum cecinit;</s>
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              Arte ſuperamus ea, in quibus à natura vincimur.
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              <s id="s.002587">Quemadmodum accidit, cum minora ſuperant maiora, & quæcunque exi­
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              guam vim habentia, magna tamen mouent pondera, & omnia ferè illa, quæ
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              ſub ea cadunt problemata, quæ mechanica nuncupari
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              . </s>
              <s id="s.002588">ſunt autem hæc
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                <expan abbr="neq;">neque</expan>
              naturalibus omninò quæſtionibus eadem,
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              ſeiugata valde: verùm
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              mathematicarum contemplationum,
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              communia. </s>
              <s id="s.002589">Poſtea in
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              græcis codicibus hæc ſequuntur (
                <foreign lang="grc">τὸ μεν γὰρ ῶ δία των μαθηματικῶν δηλον· το
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                δε περὶ ὅ, δὶα τῶν φυσικῶν</foreign>
              ) ideſt, ſi quidem quomodo ſint, ſeu qua ratione
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              exiſtant, manifeſtum eſt per Mathematica: illud verò circa quod verſantur,
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              hoc eſt obiectum, de quo pertractant Mechanicæ quæſtiones per ſcientias
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              phyſicas habetur, ideſt res naturalis eſt; eſt enim pondus, & vis, aut poten­
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              tia pondus ipſum mouens, quatenus quanta ſunt; ſiue dixeris eſt quantitas
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              ponderum,
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              potentiarum. </s>
              <s id="s.002590">Mathematicæ enim mediæ, de quorum nu­
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              mero eſt facultas Mechanica, conſiderant quantitatem rei alicuius
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              determinatæ, ſic Aſtronomia circa cœleſtium corporum,
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                tuumque</expan>
              ; quantitates, Perſpectiua circa linearum viſua­
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              lium; Muſica circa ſonorum quantitates ver­
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              ſantur. </s>
              <s id="s.002591">quæ placuit annotare, vt ſcien­
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              tiæ huius naturam perſpectam
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              haberemus.</s>
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