Biancani, Giuseppe, Aristotelis loca mathematica, 1615
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              <s id="s.003533">EX LIBRO NONO
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              DE HIST. ANIMALIVM</s>
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              Araneorum industriæ.
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              293</s>
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              <s id="s.003537">Cap. 39.
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              (Aranei ſtatim cum editi ſunt, fila mittunt, non ab intrinſeco
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              tanquam excrementum, vt Democritus ait, ſed ab extrinſeco de ſuo cor­
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              pore, veluti cortice; aut more eorum animalium, quæ ſuos villos iacu­
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              lantur, vt hystricis)
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              Cum olim in hunc locum incidiſſem, inceſſit
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              animum meum illa cupido, vt ſcilicet certò ſcirem, num iure, an iniuria
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              Ariſt. Democritum hoc loco reijceret, Araneum fila ab intrinſeco emitte­
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              re aſſerentem: quapropter ad magiſtram rerum experientiam confugi, ac­
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              cepto manu bacillo Araneum quendam ex ijs, qui circulares telas, quas
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              , & quidem aptè labyrinthos appellant, ingenio
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              mathematico
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              contexunt, ſic adij, vt Araneus pro arbitrio ſuper bacillum liberè inambu­
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              laret, dum ipſe interim curioſius illum obſeruarem, quanam videlicet ex
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              parte filum foras ederet; cum ecce tibi Araneus experienti mihi vltrò fa­
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              uens ſe ſe ex baculo demiſit, ita tamen, vt ex filo ſuo in aere ſuſpenſus re­
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              maneret. </s>
              <s id="s.003538">cum primum obſeruo ipſum inuerſum, hoc eſt capite deorſum, &
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              ventre ſurſum pendere. </s>
              <s id="s.003539">vt autem acutius cernerem, eum opacæ cuidam rei
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              oppoſui, ne præ nimia luce tenuiſſimum aranei filum aciem oculorum effu­
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              geret; quo facto in temperata luce illa, clariſſimè videbam filum ex ſeceſſu
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              aranei prodire. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Araneumq́">Araneumque</expan>
              ; vno pede filum illud retinere, ne amplius exi­
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              ret,
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              ; fieret, quàm ſuo conſilio par eſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.003541">coegi deinde ipſum aſcen­
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              dere, & deſcendere ſæpius, donec certò certius, mihi conſtitiſſet filum illud
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              non ab extrinſeco, vt hoc loco Ariſt. affirmat, ſed ab intrinſeco quippe ex
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              ſeceſſu prodire, ac proinde veriſſimam eſſe quamuis ab Ariſt. reiectam De­
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              mocriti ſententiam. </s>
              <s id="s.003542">cum Ariſt. pariter errauit Vlyſſes Aldobrandus in ſuo
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              de inſectis pulcherrimo,
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              doctiſſimo Opere.</s>
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              <s id="s.003543">Verumenimuerò opportunè accidit, vt huius dubitationis ſolutio, aliam
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              mihi alterius quæſtionis, iam olim ſummis votis expetitam afferret expli­
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              cationem. </s>
              <s id="s.003544">ea eſt huiuſmodi. </s>
              <s id="s.003545">ſæpius fueram expertus, Araneos quoſdam eſ­
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              ſe, qui ex vno loco ad alium omninò ſibi inacceſſibilem, tranſeant, ſiue quod
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              idem eſt, ex eo loco, ad illum fila deducant, vt ex vna arbore ad aliam;
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              quamuis inter
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              aut aquæ, aut denſiſſima ſpineta, ac ſepes interpo­
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              nantur. </s>
              <s id="s.003546">quod maximè mane æquitantes experimur, dum nobis fila per vias
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              tranſuerſa, oculis, atque vultui obuiantia adhærent. </s>
              <s id="s.003547">Qua ratione id Ara­
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              neus perficeret, neminem, qui literis mandaſſet, reperi, ne ipſum quidem.
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              <s id="s.003548">Vlyſſem Aldobrandum, qui in hac eruditorum palæſtra, maiores noſtros
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              omnes videtur ſuperaſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.003549">Phyſiologi à me hac de re interrogati, varij va­
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              ria, nec conſentientia reſpondebant. </s>
              <s id="s.003550">Alij aiebant Araneum ſe demittere,
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              ac ſuſpendere ex vna arbore, & deinde ad aliam à vento perferri, at ego his
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              minimè aſſentiebar, quia m Araneo nullum eſſet naturale </s>
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