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

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              tingeret, ſi verſus Lunam dimoueretur? </s>
              <s id="s.000223">Dicitur eſſe probabi­
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              le, fore, vt vbicumque Terra conſtitueretur, illeic quieſceret
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              eo modo, quo corpus eiuſce materiæ, vt aquæ ſub pari mole
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              æquiponderet, vbicumque in imo, in ſummo, in medio, aut vbi­
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              uis intra aquam ſtatuatur, conſiſtit. </s>
              <s id="s.000224">Nimirùm, quòd Terra
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              ſecundum ſi totam neque grauis ſit, neque leuis; & talis affe­
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              ctio partium propria ſit, prout à tota diſtrahuntur: quódque in
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              Mundo spherico exſiſtente, medium quidem, & extremum
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              ſit, non item infimum, & ſummum; acta is conditio ſit
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              Terræ, globorumque Mundi cæterorum propria, propter
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              eandem partium diſtractionem, & retractionem, quæ ſigillatim
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              cum speciali cuiuſque centro comparatur. </s>
              <s id="s.000225">Non probatur etiam
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              aliunde Terram eſſe in Mundi medio; cùm etiam oppoſitum
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              arguant excentrici ſiderum motus: neque veriſimile eſt, ſi
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              Terra abduceretur in verticem Antipodum, vbi ſuper­
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              ficies, cui inſiſtimus, excederet punctum, in quo fuiſſet centrum,
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              nos ibi hæſuros: aut abreptos vlteriùs, eò auolaturos, ſeu po­
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              tiùs caſuros. </s>
              <s id="s.000226">Ad aliud, quod quærit, quid eueniret lapidi, ſi
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              intra cauernam in meditullio Terræ excauatam, oppletamque
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              aqua, aut aëre constitueretur? </s>
              <s id="s.000227">Dicitur probabile eſſe, ſi Terra
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              quidem quaſi magnes ſit, qui ſuis quaſi radijs emißis attrahat
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              terrena: euenturum, vt lapis ineam cauernæ partem feratur, è
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              qua radij plures, confertioreſque affluxerint; &, ſi ſupponan­
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              tur ex æquo vndequàque affluere, fore, vtin medio ſuſpenſus
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              teneatur. </s>
              <s id="s.000228">Vnde &, quod rogat, cur lapis in puteum dimiſſus
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              fundum petat, non latera? </s>
              <s id="s.000229">Cauſſa eſt in promptu, quòd plu­
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              res, denſioreſque radij exparte fundi, ad quam eſt tota Terræ
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              moles, adueniant, quàm ex parte vlla laterum aduenire
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              poßint.
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              A p 247. in 254. </s>
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