Commandino, Federico, Liber de centro gravitatis solidorum, 1565
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              <s id="s.000007">ALEXANDRO FARNESIO
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              CARDINALI AMPLISSIMO.
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              ET OPTIMO.</s>
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              <s id="s.000008">Cvm multæ res in mathematicis
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              diſciplinis nequaquam ſatis ad­
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              huc explicatæ ſint, tum perdif­
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              ficilis, & perobſcura quæſtio
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              eſt de centro grauitatis corpo­
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              rum ſolidorum; quæ, & ad co­
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              gnoſcendum pulcherrima eſt,
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              & ad multa, quæ à mathematicis proponuntur, præ­
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              clare intelligenda maximum affert adiumentum. </s>
              <s id="s.000009">de
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              qua neminem ex mathematicis, neque noſtra, neque
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              patrum noſtrorum memoria ſcriptum reliquiſſe ſci­
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              mus. </s>
              <s id="s.000010">& quamuis in earum monumentis literarum
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              nulla reperiantur, ex quibus in hanc ſententiam addu
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              ci poſſumus, vt exiſtimemus hanc rem ab
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              vber­
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              rime tractatam eſſe; tamen neſcio quo fato adhuc
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              in eiuſmodi librorum ignoratione verſamur. </s>
              <s id="s.000011">Archi­
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              medes quidem
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              princeps in libello,
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              cuius inſcriptio eſt,
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              , de centro pla­
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              norum copioſiſsime, atque acutiſsime conſcripſit: &
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              in eo explicando
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              ingenii, & ſcientiæ
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              eſt
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                <expan abbr="cõſecutus">conſecutus</expan>
              . </s>
              <s id="s.000012">Sed de cognitione
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              grauitatis
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                <expan abbr="ſolidorũ">ſolidorum</expan>
              nulla in eius libris litera inuenitur. </s>
              <s id="s.000013">non mul
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              tos abhinc annos MARCELLVS II. PONT. </s>
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