Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              controuerſia; itemque opinione illa, quod in trian­
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              gulo, lineæ baſi parallelæ repræſentare gradus veloci­
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              tates valeant, ſi partes cruris alterutrius ipſis reſpon­
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              dentes repræſentent ſpatia; non aduertendo, quî iſti
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              gradus inæquales ſint, & à ſeipſis differant, dum
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              acquiruntur, & dum manent; & quid incommodi ex
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              hac repræſentatione trahatur. </s>
              <s id="s.001022">Videtur ſaltem occaſio
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              dubitandi fieri debuiſſe, poſtquàm admonitus à me,
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              falſum deprehendiſti id Experimentum, cui ſoli in­
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              nixus, prounciâras velocitatem duplam eſſe ex du­
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              pla altitudine; ac ſaltem obſeruaſti globum cadentem
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              ex A in C, hoc eſt ex altitudine duarum
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              ſui diametrorum, non eleuare cum oppoſita
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              lance duplum eius ponderis, quod eleuat ex
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              A in B, hoc eſt ex altitudine vnius: ſed res eſt
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              poſteà fuſiùs dicenda. </s>
              <s id="s.001023">Heic ſolùm moneo,
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              quod ſubdis
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              tuam, & communem aliorum ſuppoſi­
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              tionem eſſe primæ Propoſitionis
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              (ſeu ſuperioris Aſ­
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              ſumptionis) G
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              alilei Antecedens,
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              eſſe
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              quidem
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              tuam, aliorumque ſuppoſitionem, ipſamque falſam,
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              ac impoſſibilem; ſed à Galileo tamen hypotheticè ſo­
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              lùm vſurpari, & Antecedens fieri, vt quid ex ea incom­
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              modi neceſſariò ſequatur, demonſtret. </s>
              <s id="s.001024">Vnde &
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              quod ais,
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              niſi aduerſus
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              C
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              himæras, & Tragelaphos depugnet,
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              vides quonam ſenſu accipiendum ſit; & quod ſupereſt,
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              ipſe iam agnoſcis, an eius rationem
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              merum eſſe Paralo­
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              giſmum
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              probâris vllo argumento. </s>
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              Quòd ſi tamen præoccupatus contrariis decretis animus
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              tuus,
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              clarißimam veritatis huius lucem plenè perſpicit,
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              ac penitùs agnoſcit,
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              C
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              oncipe in triangulo ABC partes lineæ
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