Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              rei, quòd Cometes, aut faces calores his ac­
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              cendunt intolerabiles: quid igitur fiet ſi tan­
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              ta regio & vniuerſus orbe igne ambiatur?
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              <s id="s.000645">Quid enim prohibebit, ne aërem ipſum ac­
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              cendat, inde hæc omnia reliqua, tum maxi­
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              mè quòd calor ſiderum adiuuabit. </s>
              <s id="s.000646">Omnem
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              enim lucem Auerroës calidam eſſe exiſtimat.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.000647">Aërem etiam calidum maximè eſſe volunt:
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              humida autem qualitas omnium minimè re­
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              ſiſtit. </s>
              <s id="s.000648">Quomodo igitur violentiſſimo & ma­
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              ximo, & acerrimo elementorum aër ipſe re­
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              pugnabit? </s>
              <s id="s.000649">Itaque Auerroës ipſe hoc videns
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              dixit, aliquando ignem
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              eſſe calidum actu:
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              ſed ſi calidus non eſt actu, quæ potentia hæc
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              eſt: Potentia dicimus medicamenta talia,
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              quòd deuorata calefaciunt: an verò hic ignis
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              ab aliquo
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              animali deuorabitur? </s>
              <s id="s.000650">Dein­
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              de, ſi ignis calidus non eſt, nec aqua pari ra­
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              tione frigida (hoc autem eſt confundere or­
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              dinem vniuerſi
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              )
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              quid etiam prohibet ne lu­
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              ceat? </s>
              <s id="s.000651">quanquam hoc eludant vt leue argu­
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              mentum. </s>
              <s id="s.000652">Si etiam ibi ignis eſt, cur quantò
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              altius aſcendimus, cuncta frigidiora appa­
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              rent, vt etiam ſub torrida zona in montium
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              cacuminibus niues abundare
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              ? </s>
              <s id="s.000653">Quod
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              minus mirum eſt, ſi quis conſideret non ſo­
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              lùm hyeme niues, ſed media etiam æſtate fri­
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              gidiſſimas grandines generari. </s>
              <s id="s.000654">Sed dicunt
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              abeſſe ea loca à radiorum repercuſſu: ſed hoc
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              minoris caliditatis argumentum eſſe poteſt,
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              non autem frigiditatis. </s>
              <s id="s.000655">Denique ſi ibi eſſet,
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              maximè ob generationem eſſet: verùm non
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              ob hoc eſſe poteſt, cùm calor cœleſtis ſit qui
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              generet, vel ipſo teſte philoſopho, & leuiſſi­
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              ma res tam procul deſcendere haud queat.
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              <s id="s.000656">Forſan quis ignem ferri hunc ſurſum dicet,
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              atque ex eo coniectabitur ibi locum illius
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              eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.000657">Sed primùm argumenta hæc rhetorica,
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              indigna ſunt vt in rebus ſeriis adducantur:
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              neque hic ignis illius naturæ eſt, cuius ſu­
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              periorem eſſe ferunt, cùm hic vrat, ſplen­
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              deat, corrumpat, quorum nullum illi ineſſe
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              ferunt. </s>
              <s id="s.000658">Dicemus etiam poſt hæc, cur id con­
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              tingat: & quòd non ſemper etiam contin­
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              gat docebimus. </s>
              <s id="s.000659">Nec illud argumenta
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              ,
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              imò potius oppoſitum. </s>
              <s id="s.000660">Nam inter duo ex­
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              trema, non duo, ſed tantùm vnum ſolet aſſi­
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              gnari medium. </s>
              <s id="s.000661">Quòd ſi ſtatuatur, non qua­
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              tuor, ſed tria tantùm erunt elementa. </s>
              <s id="s.000662">Quòd ſi
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              hoc non demonſtrat, multò minus quatuor
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              eſſe demonſtrabit. </s>
              <s id="s.000663">Nec faces aut cometes
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              nobis inſinuant eſſe ibi ignem, cùm ipſe
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              Philoſophus ſub igne ac iuxta terram in aë­
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              re fieri affirmet hæc ipſa, vt ignis penitùs in­
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              digna non ſint. </s>
              <s id="s.000664">Sed neque in miſtis videtur
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              ignis. </s>
              <s id="s.000665">Nam ſi modò eſſet, in euforbio & pi­
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              pere potius eſſet, quorum vis calida eſt, ac
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              ſicca non mediocriter, quàm in frigidiſſimis
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              lapidibus. </s>
              <s id="s.000666">Deſtillationes etiam, tres ſubſtan­
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              tias tantùm docent, aquam pro aqua, oleum
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              vice aëris, & terram quæ in imo ſubſidet.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.000667">Quòd ſi dicas, olei partem rubicundiorem
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              ignem referre quòd acutiſſima ſit, reſponde­
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              mus & ſerò, hanc ac uitatem, acremque ſapo­
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              rem ex ignis vi acriore proficiſci. </s>
              <s id="s.000668">Indicio
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              eſt, quòd metallicorum olei nulla eſt pars
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              expers acerrimi ſaporis. </s>
              <s id="s.000669">Quare ſi hoc totum
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              quod acerrimum eſt ignem refert, acris ni­
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              hil omninò ineſſe oportet. </s>
              <s id="s.000670">Quate etiam ad
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              tria tantùm redimus elementa. </s>
              <s id="s.000671">Humores
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              in animalibus quatuor ſunt: ſed quid hoc
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              ad elementa? </s>
              <s id="s.000672">quid ſi tantùm tria cum
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              Thruſiano expoſitore artis medicæ Galeni
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              eſſe dicam? </s>
              <s id="s.000673">Sed tamen ſenſus oſtendit eſſe
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              quatuor? </s>
              <s id="s.000674">Nequaquam: nam nec ipſi faten­
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              tur hunc ignem elementum eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.000675">Quare po­
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              tius tria declarat nobis ſenſus, quàm qua­
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              tuor. </s>
              <s id="s.000676">Neque quod celeriter exedat omnia,
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              ideo dicendum elementum: nam ſic etiam
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              motus elementum eſſet: nec quia celeriter
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              creſcat, nam mures & ipſi elementum eſ­
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              ſent. </s>
              <s id="s.000677">Sed horum neutrum terræ ineſt, quam
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              tamen omnes vno ore elementum eſſe fa­
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              tentur. </s>
              <s id="s.000678">Omnia igitur ad hæc, ad demon­
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              ſtrandum quatuor eſſe elementa, tum etiam
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              ignem elementum eſſe, parum habent fidei:
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              quin imò vt ab initio propoſuimus, oppoſi­
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              tum potius oſtendunt. </s>
              <s id="s.000679">Supererat illud ma­
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              ximum à qualitatum coniugationibus at
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              non vident hoc in miſtis oſtendere: calida
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              enim quædam ſunt & humida, alia calida
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              & ſicca, atque ſic deinceps. </s>
              <s id="s.000680">At in elemen­
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              tis quoniam calor & ſiccitas tam immodica
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              ad interitum omnia erant traductura, pro
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              elemento cœleſtem calorem ac bene tem­
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              peratum ſubſtituit, ex quo omnia genera­
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              rentur. </s>
              <s id="s.000681">Hoc quidem ac putredine tum motu
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              generari ſolet materia, quam ignem vocant.
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              <s id="s.000682">Ignis
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              ſit, ſed elementorum
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              . </s>
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              Primo Can­
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              ticæ com­
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              mente 15.</s>
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              <s id="s.000684">Iam ſcio quid dicturi ſint nonnulli. </s>
              <s id="s.000685">Quis
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              tu es tam audax, qui aduerſus Philoſophum
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              ſentire audes? </s>
              <s id="s.000686">præſertim in tam confirmata,
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              atque antiqua rerum ſententia. </s>
              <s id="s.000687">Deinde, quo­
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              nam pacto grandinum & niuis generatio
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              oſtendet ignem ibi non eſſe, quum etiamſi
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              nullus adſit ignis, attamen non par eſt regio­
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              nem illam eſſe ſrigidiſſimam, cùm radiis ſy­
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              derum illuſtretur, & nihilominus aër ipſe, in
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              quo ſita ea eſt regio, calidiſſimus ſit? </s>
              <s id="s.000688">Ignem
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              quoque cùm dicimus atque elementum, rem
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              prorſus calidiſſimam ac ſicciſſimam intelli­
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              gimus: hic noſter ignis calidiſſimus eſt ac
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              ſicciſſimus, quo fit vt immiſtus etiam ſit:
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              nam ſi miſtus eſſet, talis eſſe non poſſet,
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              quare hic ignis elementum eſt. </s>
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              <s id="s.000689">Hæc ſunt quę tametſi non mihi
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              ,
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              obiici tamen poſſe ſentio. </s>
              <s id="s.000690">Ergo vt ad
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                telem</expan>
                <expan abbr="deueniã">deueniam</expan>
              , homo ille fuit, & in diſſectione
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              ac ſingularibus in multis aberrauit. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Quin-etiã">Quin­
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                etiam</expan>
              illo poſteriores & Theophraſtus, & Ga­
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              lenus plura perperàm ſcripsêre,
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              ſi licuit
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              illi Platonem ob veritatem relinquere, cur
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              etiam ob
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              illum nobis deſerere non li­
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              cebit? </s>
              <s id="s.000692">Propoſitiones quaſdam conatus eſt ge­
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              nerales aſtruere, quas experimentum falſas
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              eſſe docet: vt, quòd
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              animal bene oleat,
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              quodque graue non poſſit, vtrinque promi­
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              nere, atque ideo terra non ex vtraque parte
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              aquis promineat, quæ tamen experimento
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              falſa eſſe depræhenduntur. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Itaq;">Itaque</expan>
              ſi inter mil­
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              le propoſitiones, in duabus, aut tribus aber­
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              raſſe illum fateamur, haud rem homine indi­
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              gnam etiam ſapientiſſimo feciſſe illum di­
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              cemus. </s>
              <s id="s.000694">Nam & ab Auerroë ipſo in paucis
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              deſeritur, in nonnullis coarguitur, in pluri­
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              bus verò ſenſu tranſpoſito defenditur. </s>
              <s id="s.000695">Hoc
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              autem verè eſt etiam ipſum confutare, non
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              tueri. </s>
              <s id="s.000696">Sed
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              in hoc diſſentimus ab Ariſto­
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              tele:
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              in
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              orbis Lunæ, nec
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              eſſe
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              vult, nec rem
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              . </s>
              <s id="s.000697">Quod ad regionem </s>
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