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

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              futurum æquabilem, ob grauitatem ſemper eandem.
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              <s id="s.001678">Nihil autem eſt neceſſe admoneam, quod ſatis in Epi­
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              ſtolis antè memoratis expreſſi: lapidi nempe, exſiſtenti
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              in vacuo, perinde eſſe penitùs, ac ſi Mundus prorsùs
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              non foret: quippe niſi perinde foret, habere igitur de­
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              beret colligationem quampiam cum Mundo, aliqua­
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              ve parte ipſius, ſiue per contactum corporeum, ſiue per
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              defluxum, atque tranſmiſſionem aut aliquorum cor­
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              puſculorum, aut qualitatum, accidentiumve, non ſine
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              ſubiecto corporeo, fulcien eque prætermeantium:
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              quo caſu non eſſet lapis in vacuo, ſed in ſpatio cor­
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              poribus, ſubſtantiave corporea pleno. </s>
              <s id="s.001679">Quamobrem
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              nihil penitùs cum ipſo Mundo communicans, perinde
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              ſe habere debet, ac ſi Mundus foret redactus in ni­
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              hilum, aut procul in immenſitatem imaginariorum
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              ſpatiorum tranſlatus. </s>
              <s id="s.001680">Supponamus itaque Deum ſic
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              feciſſe vacuam regionem hanc elementar
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              m, vt à
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              concauo Lunæ orbe ad Terræ vſque ſuperficiem facta
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              ſit penitùs inanis, & lapis vno ſtadio ſupra ſuperfi­
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              ciem Terræ conſtitutus. </s>
              <s id="s.001681">Interim verò dum lapis per ſe
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              æquabiliter deſcendet, & vbi iam vnum, alterumve
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              ſuo motu confecerit, ſupponamus iterùm Deum,
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              qua potentia eſt, ſic emouere totum Mundum, & cum
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              ipſo Terram in eadem ſemper diſtantia cum cælo cir­
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              cùm perſeuerantem, vt ipſum circa lapidem, quaſi cir­
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              ca quoddam centrum circumducat, quovſque per­
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              acto circutionis dimidio ita illum ſiſtat, vt Terra iam
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              ſit è regione loci, in quo fuerit, & lapis ipſam habeat
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              ad oppoſitam partem: quæro quid-nam tunc lapidi
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              cuenturum ſit? </s>
              <s id="s.001682">Si perrecturum moueri dicas, igitur </s>
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