Cardano, Geronimo, Opvs novvm de proportionibvs nvmerorvm, motvvm, pondervm, sonorvm, aliarvmqv'e rervm mensurandarum, non solùm geometrico more stabilitum, sed etiam uarijs experimentis & observationibus rerum in natura, solerti demonstratione illustratum, ad multiplices usus accommodatum, & in V libros digestum. Praeterea Artis Magnae, sive de regvlis algebraicis, liber vnvs abstrvsissimvs & inexhaustus planetotius Ariothmeticae thesaurus ... Item De Aliza Regvla Liber, hoc est, algebraicae logisticae suae, numeros recondita numerandi subtilitate, secundum Geometricas quantitates inquirentis ...
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              igitur in mundo toto incorporeo non eſt numerus. </s>
              <s id="id004458">Si enim Deus
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              eſſet unus numero, non poſſet eſſe ens commune, & uniuerſim am­
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              plectens cuncta, & accidens contineret, quæ omnia ſunt falſa, abſur
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              da, nefaria & impia, licet tamen (ut dixi) menti humanæ quæ omnia
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              reducit ad ſimilitudinem ſenſilium, à quibus originem traxit ſuæ
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              operationis fingere numeros, ſicut in partibus hominis, aut cœli,
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              aut aeris iuxta ſitum, aut magnitudinem. </s>
              <s id="id004459">Eſt etiam alius modus
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              iuxta quem Ariſtoteles numerauit mentes quæ mouent corpora
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              cœleſtia, quod abſurdum non eſt, uelut ſi quis numeret digitos, in
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              pulſante chelim, erunt quatuor aut ſex, non tamen eſt numerus ille
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              uerè plurium, cum ad unum hominem referuntur. </s>
              <s id="id004460">Et cum ſit mun­
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              dus hic imago ſuperioris, ut ille dicebat, & inferior poteſtate conti­
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              neat infinitas partes, infinitas ordinis ratione ſuperior continebit.
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              <s id="id004461">Sed non infinitas numero. </s>
              <s id="id004462">Exempli gratia, proponamus quod So
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              lis uis dirigatur ad nos uſque impedita per nebulas, ut
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              contingit: erit ergo perfectio una, ſed ordinata omnium radiorum:
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              adeò quod ſi infinita uaſa applicarentur aqua plena infinitæ ratio­
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              nes iridis apparerent, quæ omnes continerentur poteſtate in radijs
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              illis ratione comparationis ad uaſa & irides, per ſe autem, ut ſunt
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              perfectiones eſſent in actu.</s>
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              C
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              o
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              ^{m}.</s>
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              S
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              up.
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              5.</s>
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              Lib. 7.
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              cap.
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              4.</s>
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              <s id="id004466">Propoſitio ducenteſima trigeſima.</s>
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              <s id="id004467">Proportio incorporeorum aſcendentium ſemper maior eſt.
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              C
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              o
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              ^{m}.</s>
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              <s id="id004469">Cum proportio illa ſit quaſi ſimilis decori, & ideo muſicæ geo­
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              metrica maior eſt in maioribus ac magnitudinibus, ut ſuprà docui­
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              mus. </s>
              <s id="id004470">Sed non eſt neque geometrica, neque arithmetica, nec muſica, nec
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              per recenſum, eſſent enim quantitates quæ
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              : unaquęque
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              enim harum inter quantitates conſtituta: at illa eſt ut producentis
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              ad productum. </s>
              <s id="id004471">Et non comparantur quoad æternitatem, quia ut
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              aliâs declaraui, omnis ſubſtantia eſt æterna: quanto magis incor­
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              porea. </s>
              <s id="id004472">Quia ergo primum per
                <expan abbr="præcedẽtem">præcedentem</expan>
              habet rationem totius,
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              & eſt infinitum,
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              ea parte qua recedit, quia primum non eſt,
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              plus diſtat a primo quam à tertio, igitur deſcendendo uſque ad pri­
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              ma elementa. </s>
              <s id="id004473">Sed obijcies de qualitatibus & accidentibus: dico
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              quod habent
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              eſſe, licet tempore infinito uincantur à ſubſtan
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              tijs, illę tamen etiam uincuntur & abſque participatione perfectionis
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              illius cum
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              participent eſſentia & tempore, & ſi quis dicat,
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              cur ergo Sol & lupiter
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              ſunt locati in ſupremis orbibus, cum ſint
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              nobiliores & maiores & potentiores cæteris erraticis: dico quòd
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              fuit ob mundum inferiorem, quoniam ſi fuiſſent altiores mundus
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              inferior frigore corrumperetur, quando quidem uel ſic frigore pre­
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              mantur, in hyeme etiam ſub torrida plaga, & ſub polis ac iuxta eos </s>
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