Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646
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              pedis milleſimam, quippe quæ non modò ſenſibilis, ſeu
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              viſu perceptibilis ſit, ſed microſcopicis etiam vitris, ex
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              quam plurimis texi obſeruetur: an non tribus additis
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              cyphris,
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              iam nouies mille, & octingentæ myriades
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              mytiadum partium? </s>
              <s id="s.001530">Quid ſi caſus foret ex Sole, vicies
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              ſaltem diſtantiore, quam Luna? </s>
              <s id="s.001531">Quid ſi ex firmamen­
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              to diſtantiore ſaltem ducenties quinquagies? </s>
              <s id="s.001532">Tantam
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              igitur partium multitudinem eſſe vis in inferiore di­
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              midio SD, vt ratio motus accelerati poſſit perfctè
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              intelligi: tantam, in ſuperiore AS, vt cenſeamus illam
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              non poſſe vlteriùs in duo ſubdiuidi dimidia. </s>
              <s id="s.001533">Videſ-ne
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              ergo quàm procùl abſit à diuiſionum fine ea pars,
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              in
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              qua iam primùm,
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              vt ais,
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              conſistamus?
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              <s id="s.001534">Subiicis,
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              non ſentire te cum
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              G
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              alileo, & me, graue
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              deſcendens, statim à quiete, atque in omnibus, ac ſingulis mo­
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              mentis accelerare motum.
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              <s id="s.001535"> Quot ergo putas momenta,
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              ſeu Phyſicas temporis parteis abſque acceleratione
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              tranſiri? </s>
              <s id="s.001536">Tot certè, quot ſunt innumerabiles illæ par­
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              tes, quæ ſunt
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              in priore minùs, quàm in poſteriore di­
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              midio diſtinctæ: neque enim illæ, niſi ſucceſſiuè, & vna
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              poſt aliam, atque adeò diſtinctis temporis partibus per­
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              curruntur. </s>
              <s id="s.001537">Vide igitur per quot parteis, & per quot
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              momenta temporis diſtincta inefficacem facias cauſ­
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              ſam Phyſicam, quam aduocas ſtatim. </s>
              <s id="s.001538">Videlicet
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              cauſ­
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              ſam accelerationis
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              decernis
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              eſſe ſolum medium, v. c. aërem:
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              neque enim prius accelerari motum à grauitate inchoatum,
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              quàm à medii accurrentis, ſeque à tergo claudentis motu, eó­
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              que iam notabili reſiſtentia ſuperetur.
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              <s id="s.001539"> Quo loco rursùs
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              æquiuocatio in nomine
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              notabilis.
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              Nam
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              notabilem
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              intel­
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              ligis aut naturæ, aut nobis. </s>
              <s id="s.001540">Et nobis quidem
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              notabilem
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