Casati, Paolo, Terra machinis mota : dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae physicae hydrostaticae

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              di facilitas oriretur. </s>
              <s>Quamuis verò facilè per­
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              mittam aquam repugnare terræ deſcenden­
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              ti, hæc enim intrà aquam deſcendere noņ
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              poteſt, quin aquæ ſuperficies in maiorem
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              ſphæram conglobata magis ab vniuerſi cen­
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              tro recedat; quia tamen dubitare quis poſ­
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              ſet, an corpora grauia motui ſurſum relu­
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              ctentur, quando ita mouerentur, vt nihil
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              leuius infrà ſe, ac centro vicinius haberent;
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              aqua autem tunc ita moueretur, & in orbem
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              diſponeretur, vt nihil eſſet centro vicinius,
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              infra quod conſiſtere expeteret, nihil enim
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              circumflui aëris propiùs abeſſet à centro;
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              ideò ex ipsâ minori terræ grauitatione potiùs
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              quàm ex aquæ deorſum nitentis reſiſtentiâ
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              rem explicandam cenſerem. </s>
              <s>Grauitas ſi­
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              quidem eſt vis diſponendi ſe in vniuerſo iņ
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              loco ſibi debito infra alia corpora: quò au­
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              rem magis diſſimilia ſunt corpora ſecundùm
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              locum, quem exigunt, & quò plures corpo­
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              rum ſpecies inter illa deberent intercipi, ſi
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              iuxta naturæ propenſionem ſingulæ diſpo­
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              nerentur, eò etiam grauiora ſecundum ſpe­
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              ciem ſunt ea, quæ centro viciniora eſſe exi­
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              gunt. </s>
              <s>Quarè tota grauitationis ratio & niſus,
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              quo vnum corpus infra aliud deſcendere co­
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              natur, in quo exiſtit tanquam in medio, ori­
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              tur ex diſſimilitudine ſecundùm grauitatem. </s>
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