Clavius, Christoph, In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius

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              <pb o="119" file="155" n="156" rhead="Ioan. de Sacro Boſco."/>
            tali per diametrum quaſi opponitur Breſilia in India Occidentali, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5593" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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              <emph style="sc">Praeterea</emph>
            , cum aqua ſecundum illos non ęqualiter diſtet a cen-
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            tro Vniuerſi, ſed eleuetur mirum in modum, ſequeretur, quod nauis exiens è
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            portu quocunque aſcenderet, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5596" xml:space="preserve">accedens ad eundem portum deſcenderet, & </s>
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            ſic, ęquali exiſtente uento, uelocius ad portum deſcenderet, quàm à portu aſcẽ
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            deret, quod eſt contra experientiam: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5598" xml:space="preserve">immo nullo pacto conſiſtere poſſet nauis
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            extra portum conſtituta, quin ſua ſponte ad portum decurreret, cum omne
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            graue deorſum tendat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5599" xml:space="preserve">quod tamen uerum non eſt.</s>
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              <emph style="sc">Postremo</emph>
            , quoniam id, quod prima ſententia maxime uitare cu-
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            pit, nimirum aquam, ni ſupernaturali uirtute contineretur, uniuerſam terram
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            operturam eſſe, nullo modo uitat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5602" xml:space="preserve">Cum enim ſint antipodes, ut quotidie naui
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            gantes hoc tempore experiuntur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5603" xml:space="preserve">item totum mare Oceani pene infinitis ſit
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            inſulis reſperſum, ſi aqua ſuę naturali conditioni relicta deflueret, ut terrã hãc
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            habitabilem, ſecundum auctores illius
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            ſententię operiret, magis ſane, ac ma-
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            gis detegeretur illa pars, quam noſtri
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            antipodes inhabitant, quod idem dices
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            de inſulis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5604" xml:space="preserve">Dum igitur auctores huius
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            opinionis oſtendere conantur, aquam
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            ſuę primę conditioni relictam poſſe ter
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            ram operire, aliam partem prorſus dete
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            gunt, quod ne quaquam illos conceſſu-
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            ros exiſtimo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5605" xml:space="preserve">Hoc idem ſequitur in ſe-
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            cunda opinione, dummodo Deus iterũ
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            collocaret hęc duo elementa circa idẽ
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            centrum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5606" xml:space="preserve">Nam tunc iuxta hanc ſenten
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            tiam terra operiretur aqua; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5607" xml:space="preserve">Quare mul
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            to magis detecta maneret pars illa, quã
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            incolunt modo noſtri antipodes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5608" xml:space="preserve">Sed di
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            cent fortaſſe, (ut aliqui mihi cum il-
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            lis diſputanti reſponderunt) antipodes
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            noſtros, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5609" xml:space="preserve">inſulas in eadem circunferentia cum tota terra contineri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5610" xml:space="preserve">mare
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            inter quaſcunque duas inſulas in tumorem, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5611" xml:space="preserve">tumulum quendam attolli. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5612" xml:space="preserve">Vn-
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            de ſi deflueret, uniuerſam terram cooperiret, etiam illam, quę apud Antipodes
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            eſt, unà cum omnibus inſulis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5613" xml:space="preserve">Verum hæc reſponſio abſurda eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5614" xml:space="preserve">Primum, quia
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            ſi ita eſſet, non haberet tota aqua unicum centrum, ſed quilibet tumulus aquę
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            inter duas inſulas ſuum proprium, quod eſt contra communem omnium ſen-
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            tentiam, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5615" xml:space="preserve">temere uidetur aſſertum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5616" xml:space="preserve">Deinde ſequeretur, ſi aliquis eſſet in inſu
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            la quapiam conſtitutus, ex quauix alteram inſulam longius poſitam poſſet cõ-
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            ſpicere, ſi nauigaret continentem uerſus, recedendo uidelicet magis ab ea inſu
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            la, quam uix in portu exiſtens uidebat, melius, ac expeditius eam deberet con
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            ſpicere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5617" xml:space="preserve">quandoquidem iuxta reſponſionem prędictam ex inſula illa diſcedẽs
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            montem quendam aquarum cõſcenderet: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5618" xml:space="preserve">quod aduerſatur omni experientię.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5619" xml:space="preserve">Si enim ex uno loco maris uix aliquid uideri poteſt, illud multo minus cerni-
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            tur ex alio, qui longius diſtat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5620" xml:space="preserve">Omitto plurima alia huiuſmodi abſurda, quę
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            eam reſponſionem conſequuntur.</s>
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              <emph style="sc">Accedit</emph>
            tandem, quod iuxta utramque ſententiam terra non poſſit
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            eſſe ſphęrica, ſed potius oblonga, alteriusue figurę, cum re vera antipodes </s>
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