Monantheuil, Henri de, Aristotelis Mechanica, 1599

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                <s id="id.003168">Facilis deſcenſus Auerni:</s>
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                <s id="id.003169">Sed reuocare gradum, ſuperaſque euadere ad auras,
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                Hoc opus hic labor eſt. </s>
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                Sed rurſus de vorticibus hæc quæ ſunt apud Cardanum cap. 6. lib. 1.
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                de variet. rerum ſcitu digna ſunt. </s>
                <s id="id.003172">Trahi
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                naues, inquit, ac cæ­
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                tera velut Typhone vento haud abſurdum in vorticibus: vortices
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                quoque eſſe haud dubium eſt: at quomodo deſicendens aqua diſtribua­
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                tur, non adeò perſpicuum eſt, cum ſemper in humiliora feratur. </s>
                <s id="id.003173">Imo
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                autem vortice quo modo quicquam humilius eſſe poßit, non facile
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                oſtendere. </s>
                <s id="id.003174">videtur autem mihi vortex non ad infima deſcendere:
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                ſed potius ad ea loca, ex quibus pateat exitus: Nam & vi vento­
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                rum aliquando propellitur loco cedens. </s>
                <s id="id.003175">Quamuis etiam ad infima deſ­
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                cendat, perſæpe tamen non attingit fundi libramentum: aut ſi infe­
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                rius etiam deſcendit, aliquò exitus patet. </s>
                <s id="id.003176">Terra ſcilicet, vt hoc ad­
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                dam, exiſtente hoc in loco cuniculoſa & per longißimum canalem
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                aliquam in ſpecum ſeſe exonerante.
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                Habes nunc, candide lector, opus Ariſtotelis magna ſubtilitate,
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                & iucunda ſubtilitatum in rebus Mechanicis contemplatione, re­
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                fertum, & multis ob rerum principiorumque tractatorum obſcu­
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                ritatem & ob contextus Græci corruptionem difficultatibus ob­
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                ſtructum, noſtra opera & iudicio, vt ſpero, ita reſeratum, & à men­
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                dis quibus propemodum infinitis ſcatebat, liberatum: vt poſthæc vel
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                mediocriter geometricis imbutus vel ne imbutus quidem hunc
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                legere & intelligere & voluptatem ac vtilitatem ex eo capere
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                poſsis. </s>
                <s id="id.003178">quinetiam in ſcholis
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                illorum philoſophorum, qui pa­
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                rum abſunt, vt omninò
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                  <foreign lang="el">a)gewme/trhtoi</foreign>
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                non ſint, locum eum obtine­
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                re poſsit, quem cæteri qui ab hoc naturæ & artis etiam omnis atque
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                induſtriæ genio libri prodierunt, quémque ij, qui ab illis publicè le­
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                guntur & explicantur. </s>
                <s id="id.003179">Quod in numinis diuini bonorum omnium
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                largitoris gloriam: Henrici IIII. </s>
                <s id="id.003180">Regis nostri auguſtiſsimi perpe­
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                tuum decus: Ariſtotelis libri huius authoris famam atque authori­
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                tatem maiorem: Reipub. denique noſtræ literariæ vtilitatem cedat,
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                deſidero.
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                <s id="id.003181">FINIS. </s>
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                <s id="id.003182">Cœlo reſtat iter: Cœlo tentabimus ire. </s>
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