Monantheuil, Henri de, Aristotelis Mechanica, 1599
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                ſuperimpoſita, à quibus perpetuæ intrà extrá que ſuccedentes fulctu­
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                ræ ſtatuta tigna ſuſtentabant, ſic enim caſui & inflexionibus pro­
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                ſpectum. </s>
                <s id="id.002168">Tota hæc machina validiſsimis laminis, ferreiſque clauis à
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                vertice ad calcem religata, plurimis & retinaculis, & ductarijs fu­
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                nibus vndequaque ſuffulta. </s>
                <s id="id.002169">Quadraginta trochleæ à totidem ergatis
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                mouendæ faſtigijs dictis alligatæ erant. </s>
                <s id="id.002170">Horum ſingulis homines
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                quindecim, equi duo deſtinati ſunt, qui ad nutum præfecti ( præerat
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                autem, cuique ergatæ vnus ) præſto eſſent. </s>
                <s id="id.002171">Præfecti ad ſignum tubæ
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                vrgebant molitionem, cymbali ſiſtebant. </s>
                <s id="id.002172">Vectes adiuncti ſunt quin­
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                que ſeptuaginta palmorum longitudine ex validiſsimis trabibus
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                compacti, tres ab obeliſci fronte: duo à tergo. </s>
                <s id="id.002173">Primo impetu ferrea
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                quædam lamina, quæ machinam obeliſcum ambientem religabat,
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                diſrupta eſt, ſed hac vnius horæ ſpatio reſtituta, decem demum im­
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                pulſibus duos palmos, ac
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                in altum obeliſcus eleuatur, ne ta­
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                men tanta pendente mole ſiniſtrum quid accideret, cunei ſtatim ac
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                tignorum cæſuræ, quibus obniteretur, ſuppoſitæ. </s>
                <s id="id.002174">Tum deinde aſſeri­
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                bus ac cylindris, cubi quidam, quibus inſidebat, dimoti, & quædam
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                traha ſuppoſita. </s>
                <s id="id.002175">Hoc facto, quæ prima ad auellendum molitio acer­
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                rima fuit, ſuſtenta tamen magnum ad reliquas aggrediendas adiecit
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                animum. </s>
                <s id="id.002176">Itaque ergatæ, trabes, funes ductarij, cæteraque, vt conue­
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                niebat, mutata, atque in diuerſam formam compoſita: & ima pars
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                obeliſci quatuor ergatarum viribus, quæ à tergo mouebantur, cæteris
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                quæ à fronte erant, funes remittentibus, trahi paulatim cœpit. </s>
                <s id="id.002177">Ipſe
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                vero apex clementiſsimè vergebat, quouſque famoſiſsima moles om­
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                nino integra, ac ſine vlla iactura humi decubuit. </s>
                <s id="id.002178">Atque hæc ſecun­
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                da molitio fuit. </s>
                <s id="id.002179">Poſtea per dictum tumulum ſex ergatarum vi trahi
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                cœpta eſt, & quia huic ſpectaculo intererat ipſe ſummus pontifex,
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                huius tanti tantæ molitionis curatoris exactoriſque inſtigante
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                operarum moras præſentia, breuius quidem, quam cogitari poteſt,
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                pertracta eſt. </s>
                <s id="id.002180">Atque hæc tertia molitio fuit. </s>
                <s id="id.002181">poſtquam ad aliquot
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                dies, ne funes nimio calore conflagrarent, ob motum, & aëris æſtuo­
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                ſam tunc temporis conſtitutionem, ceſſatum eſt, tandem eadem ma­
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                china, qua auulſus: ſed altiore propter loci eminentiam, externo in­
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                ternoque chomate munitiſsima, adhibitis ergatis quadraginta ſex,
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                equis centum quadraginta, hominibus ſexcentis, ex ergatiſque qua­
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                tuor imam obeliſci partem
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                . </s>
                <s id="id.002182">Reliquæ à cuſpide ad medium
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