Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              per totum ſpatium decurrendum, non autem per parteis eius
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              aliquas inquiratur. </s>
              <s id="s.001495">Nam, inquis,
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              qua ratione biſecuiſti par­
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              tem AD, in S, biſecare etiam potuiſti partem AS, ac ſu­
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              periores ſimilieer cæteras.
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              Potui certè, ſed ſtandum tandem
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              fuit alicubi, cùm diuiſio infinita eſſe non potuerit. </s>
              <s id="s.001496">Quid ni igitur
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              iam primùm, in ea parte conſiſtamus, ex qua totius motus ac­
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              celerati ratio perfectè intelligatur? </s>
              <s id="s.001497">Sed ne putes tamen, ſi
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              pars ſuperior
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              AS
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              mente, & cogitatione diuiſibilis intelligatur
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              infinitas in parteis, conſequens proptereà eſſe, vt per illas par­
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              teis omneis mente confictas acceleratio varietur: motus enim,
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              eiuſque acceleratio effectus Phyſicus est, qui proptereà (vt in
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              cæteris rebus Phyſicis accidit) per parteis ſenſibileis, eaſque
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              pro ratione ponderis, & reſiſtentiæ medij, maiores, aut mino­
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              res metiendus videatur. </s>
              <s id="s.001498">Accedit, quòd tecum, & cum
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              G
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              lileo non ſentio corpus graue deſcendens ſtatim à quiete, atque
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              in omnibus, ac ſingulis indiuiſibilibus momentis accelerare
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              motum.
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              uius rei cauſſa eſt, quòd acceleratio omnis à ſolo
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              medio eſt; vnde deſcenſus in vacuo ſui ſemper ſimilis, atque
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              vniformis exſiſteret: ſicut tunc quoque tota cauſſa deſcenſus,
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              nempe grauitas, ſemper eadem, ac ſui ſimilis perſeueraret.
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              <s id="s.001499">Igitur, cùm graue quodcumque per aërem, aut aliud medium
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              deſcendit, talis deſcenſus à ſolagrauitate inchoatur, etiam me­
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              dio plus, aut minùs reſiſtente, prout ipſum grauius, aut leuius
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              eſt, & faciliùs, aut difficiliùs diuiditur: nec priùs acceleratur
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              motus deſcendentis corporis, quàm à medij accurrentis, ſéque
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              à tergo claudentis motu, eóque iam notabili, medii reſiſtentia
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              ſupereretur, & grauitatis niſus, natiuaque velocitas Phyſicè
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              augeatur: ad quod ſine dubio requiritur pars temporis, ac spa­
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              tii non Mathematicè minima, ſed Phyſicè notabilis, quæ cùm
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              pro grauium diuerſitate, & varia reſiſtentia mediorum modò.
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