Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646
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              non debes intelligere: cùm natura noſtræ
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              notationi
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              non
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              alligetur; & priuſquam noſtra perſpicacia
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              notare
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              quic­
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              quam valeat, natura iam tranſierit per innumerabi­
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              leis parteis. </s>
              <s id="s.001541">Si ergo naturæ; quæro quot partes in mo­
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              tu neceſſariæ ſint, vt natura progreſſa eſſe
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              notabiliter
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              reputetur? </s>
              <s id="s.001542">An-non ſaltem myrias deberet eſſe ſatis?
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              <s id="s.001543">An-non ſaltem decem, centum, & mille myriades? </s>
              <s id="s.001544">An­
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              non ſaltem
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              ; a
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              ſaltem decem,
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              ,
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              mille myriades myriadum? </s>
              <s id="s.001545">Stupendum iſta non eſſe
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              ſatis, ſed deinceps adhûc multiplicanda eſſe,
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              numerus
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              notabilis
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              ſit, & cauſſa tua Phyſica euadere ef­
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              ficaxpoſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.001546">Sed de hac quidem Phyſica cauſſa dicen­
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              dum erit inferiùs: quæro heic ſolùm, an putes aërem
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              ſeſe à tergo claudere, cùm iam ſuperatur, vel ſtatim ac
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              ſuperata à fronte eſt pars ſpatij prima, vnaque ex illis
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              innumerabilibus, an non? </s>
              <s id="s.001547">Si dicas ſe non claudere;
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              igitur ſpatium illud à tergo vacuum remanet; quod
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              non es ſanè admiſſurus. </s>
              <s id="s.001548">Si ſe claudere, ergo cum ſe
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              claudendo agat (neque enim alia ratione putas hanc
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              cauſſam agere) ab ea vſque parte agit aliquid: ergo ab
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              initio vſque grauitatem iuuat: ergo & motum accele­
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              rat: ergo exſpectandæ non ſunt tam innumerabiles
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              partes, vt motus notabilis ſit, & acceleratio incipiat.
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              <s id="s.001549">Quod
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              cauſſam hanc
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              verò dicis
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              neceſſariam, vt reſiſtentia
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              ſuperetur:
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              vides quàm non ſit neceſſarium, cùm graui­
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              tate ſola agente ſuperatam iam facias, priuſquàm aër
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              aliquid agat, ſiue mobili iam promoto per totum ſupe­
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              rius dimidium ſuperueniat, ac ſeſe claudat. </s>
              <s id="s.001550">Vtcum­
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              que autem eſſe debeat
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              notabilis
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              pars; ſic cine probas
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              platicè ſubtilem determinationem in primæ partis me-</s>
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