Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 2: Opera geometrica. Opera astronomica. Varia de optica

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            præfinitus videri poſſit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5264" xml:space="preserve">Cæterum multiplicem
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            contemplandi materiam, Philoſophorum ingeniis
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            circa hæc cæleſtia corpora exorituram, quibus ve-
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            luti nova acceſſione mundum auximus, non per-
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            ſequar. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5265" xml:space="preserve">Unum hoc inanimadverſum eos præterire
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            nolim; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5266" xml:space="preserve">nempe quam non leve argumentum ad a-
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            ſtruendum pulcherrimum illum mundi univerſi or-
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            dinem, qui à Copernico nomen habet, Satur-
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            nius hic mundus adferat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5267" xml:space="preserve">ſi enim gravatè olimiſti
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            ſyſtemati aſſentientibus, ſcrupulum demere potue-
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            runt quaternæ circa Jovem repertæ Lunæ; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5268" xml:space="preserve">mani-
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            feſtius utique nunc eos convincet unica illa circa
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            Saturnum oberrans, atque ob hoc ipſum quod uni-
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            ca eſt, noſtratis Lunæ ſimilitudinem magis ex-
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            primens: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5269" xml:space="preserve">ut omittam nunc aliam quoque Saturnii
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            globi cum hoc noſtro cognationem, quam in ſi-
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            mili axium utriuſque inclinatione invenient Aſtro-
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            nomiæ periti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5270" xml:space="preserve">Quæ ſanè cum mecum reputo,
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            fieri non poſſe videtur, ut veritatem hiſce in rebus
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            tam feliciter repertam, tamque manifeſtis indiciis
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            fultam, ulla ætas obliterare valeat, quamdiu mo-
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            do obſervationum Galilæi aut noſtrarum aliqua me-
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            moria ſupererit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5271" xml:space="preserve">Haſce igitur ut ab oblivione vindi-
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            carem, utque deficientibus forſan olim organis qui-
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            bus eaſdem repetere liceat, eſſet tamen unde aliquan-
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            do extitiſſe probari poſſet, hac qualicunque ſcriptio-
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            ne publicandas cenſui, omnibuſque impertiendas.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5272" xml:space="preserve">Quod autem Celſitudini Tuæ commentarium hunc
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            inſcripſerim, feci id non una ratione. </s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head188" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Tom. III. Xxx</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5273" xml:space="preserve">Namque in
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