Barrow, Isaac, Lectiones opticae & geometricae : in quibus phaenomenon opticorum genuinae rationes investigantur, ac exponuntur: et generalia curvarum linearum symptomata declarantur

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            gularem velocitatis cujuſpiam quantitatem nec ex ſola confecti ſpatii, nec
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            ex abſumpti temporis quantitate dignoſci poſle (quælibet enim velocitas
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            aliquo tempore quodvis aſſignatum ſpatium emetiatur) aſt ex ſpatii
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            ſimul ac temporis quantitatibus ad calculum redactis eam innoteſcere;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8478" xml:space="preserve">ſicut & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8479" xml:space="preserve">viciſſim temporis abſumpti quantitas non niſi ſpatii ſimul ac
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            velocitatis agnitis quantitatibus determinetur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8480" xml:space="preserve">Quinimo ſpati quo-
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            que quantitas (quatenus hoc modo per motum dignoſcibilis eſt) nec
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            è ſola definitæ velocitatis quantitate, nec ab aſſignato tanto tempore
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            dependet, aſt ab utriuſque ratione conjuncta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8481" xml:space="preserve">Et quidem ut hæc quo-
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            modo @e reſpiciant amplius exponamus, ſpatii quatenus hoc modo
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            computatur quantitas eo ferè dignoſcitur modo, quo è dimenſionibus
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            ſuis quanta ſit ſuperficies innoteſcit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8482" xml:space="preserve">è quantitate ſcilicet unius lineæ,
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            (quæ longitudinem ejus aut altitudinem oſtentat) & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8483" xml:space="preserve">è quantitatibus
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            ſingularum invicem ſibi parallelarum linearum, quæ per iſtius lineæ
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            puncta quæque tranſeuntes ſuperficiem totam quodammodo conſti-
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            tuunt, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8484" xml:space="preserve">componunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8485" xml:space="preserve">eam ſa@tem limitant atque determinant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8486" xml:space="preserve">hoc
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            eſt quaſi per ductum ſingularum ejuſmodi linearum in reſpectiva
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            dictæ lineæ puncta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8487" xml:space="preserve">Velocitatis autem, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8488" xml:space="preserve">temporis quantitates
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            pariter eo modo diſcernuntur, quo ex ſuperficiei, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8489" xml:space="preserve">unius cui appli-
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            catur dimenſionis quantitate diſcernitur quanta ſit reliqua dimenſio
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            (ubivis, inquam, aut ſaltem alicubi quanta, nam fieri poteſt ut re-
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            liqua dimenſio quatenus per omnia prioris dimenſionis puncta diſſundi-
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            tur, ſibi paſſim diſpar & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8490" xml:space="preserve">diſſormis ſit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8491" xml:space="preserve">quid velim è veſtigio conſtabit,
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            nam utilis hæc conſideratio poſtulat enucleatiùs declarari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8492" xml:space="preserve">Omni
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            temporis inſtanti, ſeu indefinitè parvæ temporis particulæ (inſtanti
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            dico, vel indefinitæ particulæ, nam utì nihil admodum refert, utrum
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            lineam ex innumeris punctis, an ex indefinitè parvis lineolis compo-
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            ſitam intelligamus, ita perinde eſt, utrum tempus ex inſtantibus,
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            an ex innumeris minutis tempuſculis conſlatum ſupponamus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8493" xml:space="preserve">nos ſal-
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            tem brevitati conſulentes pro temporibus quantumlibet exiguis in-
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            ſtantia, hoc eſt pro tempuſcula repræſentantibus lineolis puncta non
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            verebimur uſurpare) cuilibet dico temporis momento competit velo-
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            citatis aliquis gradus, quem mobile tunc habere concipiendum eſt; </s>
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            cui gradui reſpondet aliqua decurſi ſpatii longitudo (nam hìc mobile
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            tanquam punctum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8495" xml:space="preserve">ſpa tium proinde tantummodò ceu longum
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            conſideramus) quia veròtemporis momenta quoad rem ipſam neuti-
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            quam à ſe dependent, ſupponi poterit in proximo inſtanti mobile
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            gradum velocitatis alium (alium inquam vel æqualem priori, vel in
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            quavis proportione diverſum) admittere, cui proinde reſpondebit
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            alia ſpatii longitudo, tali proportione reſpiciens priorem, </s>
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