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

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              Terræ partes remotiores à centro ſunt, propiùs verſus
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              ipſum ferantur. </s>
              <s id="s.001894">Subdis,
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              Putas enim diſrupto fornice, totàque
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              ſi placet, Terrâin arenulas redactà, eam non confluxuram ad
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              centrum?
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              Ego quidem non puto, qui putare non poſ­
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              ſunt monteis, aliaque Terræ loca diſrumpi, inque are­
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              nulas redigi, vt compleant ſuppoſitas ſpecus, cryptaſ­
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              que aut aqua, aut aëre plenas: idque, niſi fortè, vt dixi,
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              ſupponas eandem vim deterere Terram in arenulas,
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              quæ excauárit fornicem; quo caſu, quæ eſſet in arenu­
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              lis ſuperſtes magnetica vis ſic eas mutuò pelliceret, vt &
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              in crypten confluerent, & aquam, aëremve inde abi­
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              gerent; ſi modò ſuppoſueris quoque rimas, exitumve
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              patere. </s>
              <s id="s.001895">Pergis adhûc,
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              confluerent ſanè, & quidem non
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              ab alio corpore attracta, ſed ſponte naturæ, & à principio
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              interno, atque innato.
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              <s id="s.001896"> Verumtamen confluere poſſent
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              attractæ à ſeinuicem, vt & iam confluunt ferri ramen­
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              ta, quæ magneticam combiberunt vim. </s>
              <s id="s.001897">Concludis,
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              ur de cæteris igitur grauibus idem ſimili ratione non
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              dicatur?
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              Dico, quia fiunt in cæteris ſenſibiliora experi­
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              menta, ex quibus liceat aliquid veriſimilius coniectari. </s>
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              Et Magnetem ferrum, & Terram grauia trahere per in­
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              ſenſilia organula; &,
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              ur attractio prope Terram non
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              ſit ſenſibilior, quam procùl.
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              <s id="s.001899">XV. </s>
              <s id="s.001900">Inſectaris deinde Magneticam illam, ſeu
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              attractricem Terræ vim; opinariſque
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              me ridere in ſinu,
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              dum inuiſibileis vncinos, harpagones, chelas, funeiſque tenſos,
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              & tractorios fingo.
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              <s id="s.001901"> Sed quod me quidem attinet, non
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              diuendo ſanè haſce meas commentationes, ſeu vt antè </s>
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