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

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                <foreign lang="grc">ζωτιχό
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                τε
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                το̄τ
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                ,
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                ἐμγ́ύχων ἴδιον. </foreign>
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              <s id="s.001843">Ne­
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              que verò aut non habebis Ariſtotelem inter erudi­
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              tos; aut dices illum fuiſſe de ſola acceleratione loquu­
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              tum; aut probabis ſic diſtinxiſſe, vt omninò cenſuerit
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              non eſſe deſcenſum à principio externo. </s>
              <s id="s.001844">An ille ſatis
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              commodè cauſſam externam aſſignârit, non eſt cur
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              hoc loco diſcutiam; abundè eſt, ſi ipſe quoque, dum
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              cauſſam externam conſtituo, illum non modò non
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              refragantem, ſed ſuffragantem etiam habeam. </s>
              <s id="s.001845">Nam
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              quando cæteri quidem eruditi declarauerint, quæ-nam
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              alia ſit accelerationis, proportioniſque illius cauſſa; &
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              eandem cauſſam, quæ motum acceleret, non facere illi
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              initium, exigique omninò aliam, eſſeque illam intrin­
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              ſecam; tunc erit ſanè cur diffidam non meis modò nu­
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              gamentis, ſed placitis etiam tanti Coryphæi. </s>
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              Terram grauia attrahere; & Quid illi contingeret, ſi ver­
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              ſus Lunam dimoueretur; Quid lapidi, ſi intra fornicem,
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              ad centrum Terræ, conſtitueretur.
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              <s id="s.001847">XI. </s>
              <s id="s.001848">Cauſſaris deinde,
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              me multa mouere, vt grauia non à
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              propria natura, ſed à Terra diffuſis circumquáque corpuſculis
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              illecta, atque etiam illigata deorſum trahi perſuadeam.
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              Sed facio nimirùm, Vir doctiſſime, ac religioſiſſime,
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              quòd dum in perueſtigatione cauſſarum naturalium
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              verſor, nuſquam non caligo mihi offundatur; atque
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              idcircò tanquam incedens in denſiſſimis tenebris, nihil
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              non palpitem, nihil non moueam, nullam non tentem
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              ſemitam, ſi fortè in aliquam ſpeciem vel tenuiſſimæ
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              luculæ emergam. </s>
              <s id="s.001849">Dicis
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              te non intelligere quomodò ea
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