Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              progredientur: ſimileſque numeri è regione
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              conſcribi debent, ſeu prioris libri, ſeu primæ
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              additionis loco, cui additio conuenit. </s>
              <s id="s.012194">Atque
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              ita ſi tertiò, vel etiam quartò addere noua
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              conueniat, abſque labore, & confuſione vlla,
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              ex tertio, quartóve millenario inchoabis ad­
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              ditionem. </s>
              <s id="s.012195">Nec ſecùs facies, quàm in prima
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              atque ſecunda. </s>
              <s id="s.012196">Quo profecto opere, ſi velis
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              aut legere, aut totam congeriem ex ordine
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              tranſcribere, ſuſcepto primo codice tamdiu
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              abſque cura leges, donec numerus occurrat.
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              <s id="s.012197">Is cùm occurrit, ſi ſit 1. prima additio primi
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              ſupplementi legenda eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012198">Si ſit 1001. prima
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              additio ſecundi ſupplementi in manibus ſu­
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              menda eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012199">Sin 2001. prima additio tertij
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              ſupplementi. </s>
              <s id="s.012200">Quòd ſi inter legendum hanc
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              gratia exempli, è regione inueneris 1002.
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              tunc ſecunda additio ſecundi ſupplementi
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              illi ſubſequi debet. </s>
              <s id="s.012201">Atque ita abſque impe­
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              dimento vllo quotquot additionum ſupple­
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              menta, vnum poſt alterum, & abſque confu­
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              ſione in ordinem rediges, redactaque legere
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              cum voluptate poteris. </s>
              <s id="s.012202">Verùm in his for­
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              ſan, noctis Indicis numerorum commodiùs
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              fuerit vti, quàm antiquis. </s>
              <s id="s.012203">Inueni & modum
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              explorandorum, caſtigandorumque plurium
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              ſimul exemplarium, quæ tamen eadem ſerie
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              alteram, ſcilicet ex altero deſcripta ſint, vno­
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              quoque auditore opus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012204">Vltimum ergo
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              cum primo conferes: ſi res ſe habet, omnia
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              intermedia rectè habent. </s>
              <s id="s.012205">Sin error adſit, re­
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              grediaris verſus primum ex poſtremis ſin­
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              gula emendando, donec ad illud deueneris,
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              quod cum primo conuenerit. </s>
              <s id="s.012206">Vt verò nobi­
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              lius eſt hoc genus, ita vtilius quod ſubſequi­
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              tur: quod quantum mihi contulerit ad
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              obſeruationem eorum, quæ legebam, non
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              eſt quòd dicere poſſim. </s>
              <s id="s.012207">Poterat ſanè huius
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              inuenti autor ſilentio præteriri, quando­
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              quidem neſciam, an illis totis tribus li­
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              bris, quos de Occulta philoſophia conſcri­
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              pſit, quicquam aliud veri ſit, adeò illum
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              inſaniſſe, dum hæc ſcriberet exiſtimo:
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              longè magis, quàm in Danorum hiſtoria,
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              qui illam totam fabulis plenam conſcripſit
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              Saxo Grammaticus neſcio quis. </s>
              <s id="s.012208">Sed tamen
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              neminem propriis inuentis fraudari velim.
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              <s id="s.012209">Ille Cornelius Agrippa tot cum prænomi­
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              nibus, huius ſubtilitatis autor eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012210">Quan­
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              quam nec in hoc ad vnguem illum ſim
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              ſecutus, quòd non magis hac in re, quàm
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              cæteris diligens fuerit. </s>
              <s id="s.012211">Ea autem eſt ratio,
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              quæ potiùs tabella præ oculis poſita, quem
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              longa oratione, ſit explicanda. </s>
              <s id="s.012212">Sit gratia
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              exempli, vt velim 5572. ita deſcribam. </s>
              <s id="s.012213">Et
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              ſi vellem 7240. deſcribam, vt à latere vi­
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              des. </s>
              <s id="s.012214">Quòd ſi velim 12509. ſcribam primò
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              9000. figura propria, inde ducta tranſuerſa,
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              quæ 3000. ſignificat, habebo 12000. cui
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              addam 509. & habebo figuram, quam à la­
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              tere vides. </s>
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              Additiones
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              libris alter
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              poſt alteram
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              quomodo
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              fiant.</s>
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              Quomodo
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              vngue nu­
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              meri omnes
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              25000
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              fermè ſcribi
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              poſſint.</s>
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              <s id="s.012217">Quòd ſi vellem 25553. qui
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              eſt maximus abſque confuſio­
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              ne hîc poſſit ſcribi, ſic vt
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              eum vltimò depinxi, habe­
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              bis. </s>
              <s id="s.012218">Singulæ enim partes col­
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              ligunt 23. vnde ſi aggregen­
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              tur, vt hîc à latere vides, is conficietur nu­
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              merus. </s>
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              <s id="s.012219">5572</s>
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              <s id="s.012220">7240</s>
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              <s id="s.012221">12529</s>
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              <s id="s.012222">25553</s>
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              <s id="s.012223">Licebit & facilius productis figuris ex
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              tranſuerſa linea ſic
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              totidem adiicere
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              numerorum incrementa, vt vltima figura,
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              quæ eſt
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              ſignificet 9000000. </s>
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              <s id="s.012224">Et rurſus per tranſuerſas ad dextram qui­
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              dem. </s>
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              <s id="s.012225">Et ita quemlibet maximum numerum
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              atque confuſione ſolo vngue declarare poſ­
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              ſum, rectiſque lineis. </s>
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              <s id="s.012226">Sed Agrippa vix decem aut viginti mil­
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              lia attingit, atque hos numeros, & labo­
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              riosè, & confusè ſatis. </s>
              <s id="s.012227">Id tamen ei de­
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              bemus. </s>
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              <s id="s.012228">Non defuere qui cæcos ſcribere ſic doce­
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              rent. </s>
              <s id="s.012229">Tabula ænea cauis literis ordine al­
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              phabeti cælatur, in ea cæcus ſtylum per
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              ſingula deducit elementa, memoria tenens
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              illorum ordinem donec longa edoctus con­
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              ſuetudine calamo diſcat eadem exarare.
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              <s id="s.012230">Refert Eraſmus, aliquot; etſi magno la­
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              bore, rectè tamen ſic ſcribere didiciſſet.
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              <s id="s.012231">Indiget res hæc aſſiduo monitore, longa­
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              que conſuetudine. </s>
              <s id="s.012232">Et quando ſtylus præa­
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              cutus fuerit, & litura tenuis, eò facilius
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              ac melius diſcunt. </s>
              <s id="s.012233">Res prorſus mira, ſed
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              minùs vtilis. </s>
              <s id="s.012234">Cuius exemplo vidiſſe quen­
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              dam memini me, qui cùm brachiis om­
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              ninò careret, dextro pede haſtam vibra­
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              bat, collimabatque, ſuebat veſtem, ede­
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              bat, ſcribebat, in acum filum immitebat.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.012235">Nec tanti miraculi defuturos teſtes ſpero:
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              cùm res publicè ageretur. </s>
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              Quomodo
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              cæcus ſcribe­
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              re doceri
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              poſſit.</s>
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              Manibus &
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              brachiis ca­
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              rens cuncta
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              agebat.</s>
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              <s id="s.012238">Verùm ad machinas redeo: fit inſtru­
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              mentum, cui ſi te manibus ſubſpenderis,
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              dum trahis, vehementiùs traheris. </s>
              <s id="s.012239">Con­
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              ſtat hoc modo: AB, pauimentum ſuperiùs:
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              initium trahentis funis C, DE, verò lignum
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              ferrumve inclinatum ſumma vi, cui CD, fu­
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              nis annectitur, DF, verò lignum quòd
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              ſubiacet laquearibus, prohibetque ED. re­
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              uerti: ipſi verò FD. appendatur pondus GF, </s>
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