Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam; Tom. 1

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            ctandæ Phyſices methodus fundamento nitatur, ſerio exa-
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            minaverit, ſolam hanc eſſe legitimam, hypotheſeſque
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            omnes eſſe rejiciendas, facillime percipiet.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s343" xml:space="preserve">Hæc de philoſophandi Methodo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s344" xml:space="preserve">reſtat ut deipſo Opere
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            quid dicatur.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s346" xml:space="preserve">Dividitur totum Opus in quatuor libros. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s347" xml:space="preserve">Primus agit de
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            corpore in genere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s348" xml:space="preserve">corporum ſolidorum motu. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s349" xml:space="preserve">Secun-
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            dus fluida ſpectat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s350" xml:space="preserve">Quæ ad lucem pertinent, in tertio tra-
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            ctantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s351" xml:space="preserve">In quarto tandem motus corporum cœleſtium,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s352" xml:space="preserve">quæ in terris ad hos relationem habent, explicantur.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s353" xml:space="preserve">Primi duo libri hoc Tomo continentur.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s355" xml:space="preserve">Ut Phyſices ſtudium quantum fieri poteſt amœnum & </s>
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            facile reddatur, omnia Experimentis eſſe elucidanda, i-
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            pſaſque concluſiones Mathematicas, hac Methodo ſub o-
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            culos eſſe ponendas, neceſſarium duxi.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s358" xml:space="preserve">Qui ſcientiæ elementa conſcribit, non quid novi, quan-
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            tum ad materiam, Orbi Litterato pollicetur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s359" xml:space="preserve">ideoque
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            inutile duxi monere ubi reperiantur quæ hîc traduntur.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s360" xml:space="preserve">Pro meo ſumſi quodcunque propoſito meo utile mihi vi-
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            ſum eſt, credidique ſatis eſſe de hoc monere ad omnem
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            furti ſuſpicionem vitandam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s361" xml:space="preserve">Malo gloriam, ſi quam ex
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            paucis novis, quæ ſparſim in hoc Tractatu dantur, ſpe-
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            rare poſſum amittere, quam alii ſuam detrahere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s362" xml:space="preserve">ſumat
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            ergo quiſque quod ſuum credit, nihil mihi vindico.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s364" xml:space="preserve">Quod Machinas attinet, quibus Experimenta inſtituen-
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            da ſunt, varias aliorum Auctorum imitari curavi, multas
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            inter has mutavi perfectioreſque reddidi, plures novas ad-
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            didi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s365" xml:space="preserve">Neque mirum in hanc neceſſitatem illum </s>
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