Monantheuil, Henri de, Aristotelis Mechanica, 1599

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              vel eſt animus, illi vel propenſione naturali, vel iudicio,
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              vel caſu aliquo de multis nonnulla ſeligunt, in quibus
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              tempus & operam non ſine vſura collocent ſuam. </s>
              <s id="id.000086">Om­
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              nium, quæ ſunt, genera quatuor eſſe reperio, ſingula cer­
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              tè digniſſima hominis contemplatione. </s>
              <s id="id.000087">Diuina, cœle­
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              ſtia, elementaria, artificialia. </s>
              <s id="id.000088">In quorum ſingulis multos
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              excelluiſſe clarius eſt: quam vt cuiuſquam nominis com­
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              memoratione opus ſit. </s>
              <s id="id.000089">Et certè diuina ſunt eiuſmodi, vt
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              licet ad eorum intuitum, ſicut ad Solis veſpertilionis: Ita
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              mentis noſtræ oculi caligent, ſi quis tamen diuinitatis
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                <expan abbr="etiã">etiam</expan>
              exiguus repente, & ſubinde radius recipiatur & ocu­
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              los ſubintret, plus voluptatis menti adferat: quam alio­
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              rum quorumlibet plena cognitio. </s>
              <s id="id.000090">Quæ vna res adiuncto
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              contemplationis diuinorum fine ( quem Dei cognitio­
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              nem, amorem, & cultum arbitror ) fecit, vt philoſophiæ
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              diuinorum quamplurimi homines totos ſeſe dediderint,
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              dedantque quotidie. </s>
              <s id="id.000091">Huic philoſophiæ proxima eſt cœ­
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              leſtium & elementariorum id eſt
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              mundi
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              ſcilicet huius, cuius ſine machinis fabrica in ſubſtantia,
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              magnitudine, figura, numero, ſitu, connexione, faculta­
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              tibus, & vſu partium
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              ſui fabricatoris bonitatem,
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              ſapientiam,
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              , ſumma iſthæc omnia arguit, & de­
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              monſtrat. </s>
              <s id="id.000092">Luculentiſſimè inſuper oſtendit Deum, & eius
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              adminiſtram naturam ſine actione, ſine opere nuſquam
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              eſſe. </s>
              <s id="id.000093">Multò de his plura: quam de diuinis philoſophando
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              homines conſecuti ſunt,
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              ſine incredibili animorum
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              ſuorum voluptate, & innumerabili ad vſus humanos vti­
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              litate. </s>
              <s id="id.000094">Nam cum hæc ita eſſe homines
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              , vt
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              ad multò plures vſus, quam ad quos
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              nata eſſe com­
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              perirentur,
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              & aptati poſſent,
                <expan abbr="perciperentq;">perciperentque</expan>
              non
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              fruſtrà ſuis animis inſitas non
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              facultates iſta transfe­
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              rendi & aptandi: ſed etiam congenita corporibus ſuis
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                ſtrumenta</expan>
              , quibus vel ex ſe, vel à ſe factis
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              tranſ­
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              ferrent & aptarent, non ſola cognitione
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              ad agen­
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              dum ſe
                <expan abbr="contulerũt">contulerunt</expan>
              . </s>
              <s id="id.000095">Hinc quartum genus illud
                <expan abbr="rerũ">rerum</expan>
              , quas
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              diximus, artificialium emanauit, primùm vt credibile eſt </s>
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