Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              impudentia mendacia & meras fabulas, mi­
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              raculo omni carere potuit. </s>
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              Literas quæ
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              deleant.</s>
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              <s id="s.007033">Sed literæ, quæ arte hac carent, multis
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              modis delentur: aut tenuiſſimo gladio cha­
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              lybeo, aut puluere noſtri aluminis, quem ſæ­
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              pè vtilem expertus ſum, aut aqua deſtilla­
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              tionis calchanti, & halinitri, lachrymæ quæ
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              larignæ. </s>
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              <s id="s.007034">Delentur & aqua ſecunda, quæ inferiùs
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              deſcribentur ad tollendos pilos. </s>
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              <s id="s.007035">Verùm, plus eſt ſcientiæ in vſus modo,
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              quàm in inuentione. </s>
              <s id="s.007036">Siquidem, ſi pulue­
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              re delendæ ſunt, affricandus eſt digitis mol­
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              liter. </s>
              <s id="s.007037">Si ferro, celerrimè, & leuiſſimè tra­
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              ctandus gladius. </s>
              <s id="s.007038">Si aqua, caue, ne dum
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              literas ſtudes abradere, chartam laceres.
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              <s id="s.007039">Et ad ſummum, ne tam accuratum nego­
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              tium ruditer tractes. </s>
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              <s id="s.007040">Dictum hucuſque de Elementis, Cœlo,
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              Luce, Miſtione, Metallis, Lapidibus, &
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              Plantis: tranſeamus iam ad Animalium hi­
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              ſtoriam, & primò ad inſecta. </s>
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              LIBER NONVS.
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              De animalibus, quæ ex putredine
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              generantur.
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              De
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              differentia.</s>
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              <s id="s.007044">ANIMALIVM genera prima
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              duo ſunt, alterum, quod præ­
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              ciſa parte vitam in ea retinet,
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              inſectumque dicitur: atque id
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              ad imperfectionem attinet,
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              quòd plantis idem contingat. </s>
              <s id="s.007045">Alia ſunt ani­
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              malia perfecta, quibus id minimè conuenit.
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              <s id="s.007046">Verùm altius communis animalium hiſto­
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              ria petenda eſt: ac primò quærendum, cur
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              animalia non in rectum adeò creſcant, vt
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              plantæ, ſed potiùs in latum atque profun­
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              dum. </s>
              <s id="s.007047">Deinde cur natura animalium quæ­
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              dam ex ſemine genuit, alia verò abſque ſe­
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              mine? </s>
              <s id="s.007048">Demùm, cur quædam animalia aliis
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              veſcuntur, quædam verò plantis ſolis? </s>
              <s id="s.007049">Ne­
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              que idem eſſe credendum eſt, animalia è
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              putri materia generari, aut imperfecta eſſe,
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              aut inſecta. </s>
              <s id="s.007050">Nam lacertæ, & ſerpentes in­
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              ter inſecta: numerantur, & tamen non ex
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              putri materia generantur, ſed ex ouis. </s>
              <s id="s.007051">Atque
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              viperæ etiam prodeunt ex vtero, quamuis ex
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              ouis neſcantur: ſed animal tamen, non ouum
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              naſcitur, quia in vtero ex ouo abſoluitur.
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              <s id="s.007052">Mures etiam, qui ex materia putrida gene­
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              rantur, inter inſecta non ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007053">Serpentum
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              etiam multi omnes ſenſus habent, cùm ta­
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              men ex putri materia ortum habuerint. </s>
              <s id="s.007054">Ita­
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              que ex putredine perfectum animal oriri
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              haud eſt inconueniens ſicut verſa vice talpa
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              imperfecta oritur ex animali ſui generis.
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              <s id="s.007055">Cùm igitur hîc deſerpentibus ſermo habea­
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              tur, tum de inſectis, non eſt tractatio hæc
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              pura ac generalis, ſed quoniam inſectorum
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              maxima pars eo modo naſcitur abſque ouo,
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              & abſque vtero, ne dicam parente, ſimiliter
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              ſerpentum plurimi eodem modo, ideò de
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              omnibus his tractandum hîc cenſui. </s>
              <s id="s.007056">Porrò
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              vt ad inſtitutum ſermonem reuertar, cauſa
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              cur plantæ directè plerumque ſursùm creſ­
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              cant, animalia verò non, ſed in latum potiùs
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              atque profundum, eſt, quoniam humor ani­
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              malium eſt pinguior, ideò vndequaque ma­
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              gis extenditur: plantarum verò calor eſt in
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              radice, ideò impellit, quà erumpere magis
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              poteſt: cùm igitur eruperit non tam facilè à
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              priore motus forma recedere poteſt: vnde fit
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              vt in molli terra plantæ magis craſſæ, & mi­
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              nùs altæ euadant, & in ſolida tamen iuxta
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              aquas contrario modo: humor enim ille mi­
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              nùs pinguis eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007057">Cur verò animalia quædam
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              ſolis plantis veſcantur, alia verò ipſis ani­
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              malibus, demonſtrandum. </s>
              <s id="s.007058">Animalia fuiſſe
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              ſola, quæ aliorum carnibus veſcerentur, poſ­
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              ſibile non fuit: nam altero alterum
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                te</expan>
              , nec alio cibo ſuppetente, cum ſemper ali­
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              quid loco excrementi ſuperabundet, quanti­
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              tate primùm moles tota animalium & nu­
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              mero minueret, demum etiam imò breui de­
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              ficeret. </s>
              <s id="s.007059">Quòd ſi plantis omnia animalia veſ­
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              cerentur, non adepta fuiſſet natura perfe­
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              ctionem quoniam ſanguis ille, & caro non
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              ex elementis confractis, & optimè tempera­
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              tis conſiſteret. </s>
              <s id="s.007060">Ob id nullum animal, quod
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              carne non veſcatur, ſagax eſt, & prudens, ex­
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              cepto elephante. </s>
              <s id="s.007061">Non ergo aues ſagaces,
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              non piſces, non animalia pedibus ſolis præ­
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              dita, ſolicita, ſagacia & moribus humanio­
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              ribus facere poterat. </s>
              <s id="s.007062">Nam quæ carnibus
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              vtuntur, ſenſu proximioria homini ſunt
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              quàm quæ plantis, vt canes, vulpes, cercopi­
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              theci, feles, leones, delphini, vrſi, aquilæ. </s>
              <s id="s.007063">Tria
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              igitur animalium genera ſunt ciborum va­
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              rietate diſtincta: quædam enim ſolis plantis
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              veſcuntur, vt equi, aſini, boues, oues, capræ.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007064">Quædam ſolis animalibus, vt leones, delphi­
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              ni, pantheræ. </s>
              <s id="s.007065">Quædam vtroque genere, vt
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              homines, cercopitheci, gallinæ, ſues. </s>
              <s id="s.007066">Quæ
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              animalibus veſcuntur, ſi animalia excipias,
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              quæ illis loco cibi ſunt, cum reliquis ciuilia
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              ſunt, velut coruo cum vulpe, pifici cum mil­
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              uis, vulpi cum ſerpente, crocodilo cum regu­
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              lo, aut lupo piſci cum mugili. </s>
              <s id="s.007067">Sed quæ plan­
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              tis veſcebantur, dentibuſque obtuſioribus
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              indigebant: alia vngulis armauit, vt equos,
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              aſinos, & camelos, alia cornibus, vt
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              boues, & capras. </s>
              <s id="s.007068">Et quoniam paruis
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              animalibus vngularum, & cornuum præ­
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              ſidium fugam retardaſſet, & ob virium
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              imbecillitatem parum attuliſſet auxilij, ob
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              id vtrumque illis negauit, vt leporibus, cu-</s>
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