Fabri, Honoré, Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, 1665
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              tibus aër purior eſt, id eſt, à vaporibus liberior. </s>
              <s id="s.002501">Igitur plus ineſt materiæ
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              dilatabilis corporibus liquidis prædicto aëri expositis; quid mirum ergo,
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              ſi tenſio facilior eſt, multa enim faciliùs tenditur, quàm modica; præterea
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              fieri potuit, vt aliquid aëris in tubum irrepſerit; fatetur enim præfatus Au­
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              tor, quamvis alioquin hoc experimentum ſæpiùs probaverit, vna dumtaxat
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              vice à fiſtula aëra exulaſſe: ille autem aër purior faciliùs comprimi & di­
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              latari poteſt: Hinc ij, qui de rebus Americæ ſcripſerunt, teſtantur, in ver
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              tice cujuſdam montis, auram ita tenuem eſſe, vt reſpirationi vix ſerviat;
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              in his, vt vides, nulla eſt difficultas. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.002503"> Nulla ſanè; ſed cur quæſo ſegmentum IC toties alitudinem
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              mutat, nulla temporum habita ratione? </s>
              <s id="s.002504">aliquando enim cum Thermome­
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              tro convenit, ita vt fervente æſtu ſubſidat, & ſæviente bruma aſſurgat, aliàs
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              omnino ſecus accidit; vnde hoc quæſo, Antime? </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.002506"> In alia hypotheſi hoc nullo modo explicari poteſt, in noſtra
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              facilè explicatur; nempe pro diverſa ratione auræ purioris, ſeu defæcatio­
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              nis, cui ſcilicet materiæ dilatabilis plus ineſt, varia eſt ſegmenti extantis al­
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              titudo; quò enim plùs ineſt prædictæ materiæ, minor eſt, quo minùs, major,
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              vt patet ex dictis; plùs autem, vel minùs ineſt, pro diverſo ventorum, ha­
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              lituum & effluviorum appulſu: porrò diverſæ ſunt combinationes, vt vo­
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              cant majoris ſcilicet, & minoris quantitatis hujus materiæ; itemque caloris
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              & frigoris ambientis; vnde fieri poteſt, vt vnum ab alio minuatur vel au­
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              geatur. </s>
              <s id="s.002507">V.g.major quantitas illius materiæ, cum majore caloris vi acceden­
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              te conjuncta, brevius ſegmentum extantis Mercurij facit; reliquæ combina­
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              tiones facilè fieri poſſunt, quare vltro illas omitto, ne ſim fortè prolixior. </s>
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              Chryſocom.
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              <s id="s.002509"> Quid autem cenſes de illa obſervatione, quam præfatus Au­
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              tor indicat, & de qua Venetiis ſcriptum eſt, ſcilicet æſtu creſcente, ſegmen­
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              tum extantis Mercurij decreſcere, creſcere verò æſtu decreſcente, an fortè
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              aliquid de illa probaſti? </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.002511"> Si Mercurij extantis ſegmentum à Cylindro aëris ſuſtineretur,
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              hoc reverà accidere deberet, iuxta illam noſtram hypotheſim, quam in ſu­
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              periore congreſſu fusè ſatis tradidimus, vt patet; ſed cùm prædictum ſe­
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              gmentum ab aëris Cylindro non ſuſtineatur, vt ſupra oſtenſum eſt, æſtus
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              maris ad rem hanc nihil facit: vbi autem hæc inaudij, probavi rem accura­
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              tiſſimè, ſervata fiſtula in ſitu perpendiculari BD eum ſegmento extantis
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              Mercurij CI, per totos ferè 30. dies, obſervavi multam mutationem altitu­
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              dinis; nam Mercurius aliquando ſupra C aſſurgere,
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              infra ſubſidere
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              mihi, aliiſque, quibus oſtendi, ſæpè ac ſæpiùs viſus eſt, nunquam tamen
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              æſtus maris leges ſervavit, ſive diurnas, ita vt momento ſummi æſtus, quo
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              Luna eſt in Meridiano, ſubſideret, & momento ſummi receſſus, ſeu reflu­
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              xus, Luna ſcilicet Meridianum ſextæ horæ occupante, aſſurgeret; ſive leges
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              menſtruas, ita vt in Plenilunio & Novilunio ſubſideret, in Quadraturis aſ­
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              ſurgeret: Idem Florentiæ & Liburni obſervatum fuit, vt à viro ſumma fi­
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              de digno accepi; quare non eſt, quod multùm curemus de prædicta illa ob­
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              ſervatione, quæ cum certis experimentis minimè conſentit; quare, ne tem­
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              pus teramus, profer quæſo, ſi quid fortè reſtat. </s>
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