Borro, Girolamo, De motu gravium et levium, 1575

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                ignoretur; quæ nihil aliud eſt,
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                huius naturalis motus prin
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                cipium: vt auctor est Aristoteles in vestibulo ſecundi libri
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                Phyſicorum. </s>
                <s id="s.000157">Hinc inteligimus rem hanc non parum momen
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                ti habere, quin potius, vel maxime referre ad veritatis inueſti
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                gationem, hunc nouiſſe motum. </s>
                <s id="s.000158">Ideo nulla de re magis conten
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                dunt, ac pænè degladiantur Philoſophi, quam de hoc motu.
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                <s id="s.000159">Hæc omnium ferè contentionum, quæ hactenus inter Philo­
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                ſophos verſatæ ſunt prima fuit, atque etiam poſthac erit,
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                ſi hic elementorum motus ignoretur: Cenſet Antipho vnam
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                eſſe materiam, quæ primo natura dicatur, & quæ ſit huius
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                motus principium; Empedocles terram architectatur immo­
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                bilem, & à celeri cæli conuerſione prohiberi, quo minus mo­
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                ueatur: Democritus, Leucippus, & Epicurus elementa teme­
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                rè moueri dixerunt. </s>
                <s id="s.000160">Anaxagoras partes quaſdam conſimi­
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                les, atque immobiles commentus est: Parmenides, & Me­
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                liſſus motum ſustulerunt. </s>
                <s id="s.000161">Sed nimis longum eſſet hoc loco
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                ſingulas veterum Philoſophorum opiniones
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                : ſatis ſit,
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                hunc motum intelligere, plurimum in Philoſophia referre:
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                & hanc conquiſitionem, quò eſt magis neceſſaria, eò eſſe expli
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                catu difficiliorem: Norunt omnes antiquorum hac de re opi
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                niones eſſe contrarias, nec ignorant, cuius doctrinæ, & cuius
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                iudicij ſit, vtram duarum partium veriorem diiudicare: dein
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                de cuius induſtriæ, cuius laboris, quod verum iudicatum fue­
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                rit, litteris mandare in tanta præſertim Philoſophorum, &
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                ſcriptorum copia, quos noſtra hæc felicissima ætas tulit: qui in
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                ea enodanda laborarunt, at que laborant, & concordes non
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                ſunt: tam variæ, tamque diſcrepantes illorum ſententiæ ma­
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                gno argumento eſſe poſſunt, totum quod quærimus eſſe difficil
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                limum: propter hanc cauſam ſcire vos oportet, candidissimi
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                Lectores, hic dere non tantum difficili, sed etiam minime
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