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

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              In quo tu quidem fœlicior fuiſti; ſed vereor non pa­
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              rùm, ne accuratior illa tua experientia neutiquam tuæ parti
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              ſuffragetur; quamuis dicas com nodè ad
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              G
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              alilei mentem
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              accidiſſe, vt globus non-niſi ex quatuor diametrorum altitu­
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              dine decidens attollere potuerit duplum eius ponderis, quod ex
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              vnius diametri eleuatione ſummum extulerat; ſicut nec tri­
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              plum, niſi ex altitudine diametrorum nouem, &c. </s>
              <s id="s.001182">Ego enim
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              tuo exemplo inductus, cùm idem tentare item voluerim; ne­
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              que globum ex vnius diametri altitudine, ſuum pondus toties
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              multiplicatum attollere comperi; neque ad duplicatum, tri­
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              plicatumque pondus eleuandum, ad tantam altitudinem attolli
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              debuiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.001183">Vſus ſum quidem bilance obuia, & fortaßis non ita
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              exacta, & globo Porphyretico vnciæ
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              1,
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              drachm
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              ſatis exactè.
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              <s id="s.001184">Reperi autem hunc globum repetita aliquoties operatione ex
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              vnius diametri altitudine eleuare ſolùm vncias
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              5,
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              dr.
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              2
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              (neſcio
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              an vitio bilancis acciderit, vt maius pondus non extulerit) at
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              idem globus duplum illius ponderis, ex diametris tribus, tri­
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              plum ex quinque, quadruplum ex ſeptem, quintuplum ex
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              nouem ſustulit; interruptus autem nihil vlteriùs tentare po­
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              tui. </s>
              <s id="s.001185">Ex his autem adhûc vides (quod totius controuerſiæ ca­
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              put eſt) æqualibus spatiis æqualia acquiri velocitatis aug­
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              menta. </s>
              <s id="s.001186">Hanc ego tamen operationem tibi tanquam exactam
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              non propono, quia necdum mihi per otium licuit eam adhi­
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              bere diligentiam, quamres huius momenti pro ſuo merito po­
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              ſtulat: ſed vt te quoque ad exactam illius rei experientiam
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              inuitem; ex qua tota de motu accelerato controuerſia diri­
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              menda videatur.
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              <s id="s.001187">Poſtrema hæc verba, quàm eſſent te digna; niſi
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              aliunde Demonſtrationem, quod mox obiiciebam, ita
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              propugnares, acſi foret iam controuerſia à te dirempta
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