Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            agro enaſcatur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8837" xml:space="preserve">hoc tamen obſeruari, vbi in taliter diſpoſito agro
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            dup lex facta fuerit meſſis, vna quidem frumenti, altera auenæ,
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            dein per ſeptem annos agrum iſtum incultum relinqui. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8838" xml:space="preserve">Hæc ille.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8839" xml:space="preserve">Sed & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8840" xml:space="preserve">vitibus quoquè fertilitas cinere conciliatur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8841" xml:space="preserve">ſi enim
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            fertiles non fuerint, earum radicibus cinerem acri aceto ſuba-
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            ctum apponendum, quo rigentur, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8842" xml:space="preserve">oblinantur, docet Plinius
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            lib.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8843" xml:space="preserve">17.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8844" xml:space="preserve">cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8845" xml:space="preserve">vlt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8847" xml:space="preserve">Dand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8848" xml:space="preserve">Cinerum vim ad fœcundandum ſolum maximè com-
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            mendat Inſula Materia in Atlantico Oceano antè Fortunatas ſita,
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            quæ intermiſſâ nauigatione diu latuit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8849" xml:space="preserve">ſuperioris ſæculi decimi-
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            ſexti anno vigeſimo reperta *inde nomen accepit, quod, totam cùm*
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            *ſyluæ occupâſſent, materiâ abundabat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8850" xml:space="preserve">Itaque igne ſubdito ſeptem*
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            *annis tenuiſſe incendium ferunt, eaque ratione culturæ aper-*
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            *tam adeò felici gremio mandata excepiſſe ſemina, vt mul-*
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            *tis deinceps annis in ſexageſimam frugem multiplicata red-*
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            *diderit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8852" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8853" xml:space="preserve">Salibus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8854" xml:space="preserve">Nitro præcipuè, fœcunditatis pręrogatiua
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            conuenit, ideoque Nilus *amnis fætifer* à Plinio lib.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8855" xml:space="preserve">14. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8856" xml:space="preserve">cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8857" xml:space="preserve">20.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8858" xml:space="preserve">dictus fuit, quòd eius aqua Nitrum contineat, atque ex illius
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            potu Ægyptiæ mulieres adeò fœcundæ fiant, vt ſeptenos partus
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            vnico vtero gerere dicantur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8859" xml:space="preserve">propterea Ptolemæus cognomento
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            Philadelphius ſecundus Ægypti Rex cum, teſte Polybio, filiam
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            Berenicem Antiocho Syriæ Regi vxorem dediſſet, Nili aquam,
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            quam ſolam biberet, ei miſit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8860" xml:space="preserve">Neque aliam ſubeſſe cauſam pu-
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            tandum eſt, cur Nilus cum Ægyptum æſtate obrutam oppletam-
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            que tenuerit, mollitos & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8861" xml:space="preserve">oblimatos agros ad ſerendum relinquens
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            celeberrimæ fertilitatis ſpem faciat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8862" xml:space="preserve">nam & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8863" xml:space="preserve">ipſis ſeminibus vtile
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            eſſe nitrum cenſetur, non ſolùm vt legumina facilè coquantur, ſi
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            antè ſationem nitrum cum lætamine aruis committatur, verùm
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            etiam ad vberiorem prouentum, ſi nitro ſemina imbuantur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8864" xml:space="preserve">cum
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            ſcripſerit Virgilius lib.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8865" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8866" xml:space="preserve">Georg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8867" xml:space="preserve">*Semina vidi equidem multos me-*
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            *dicare ſerentes, Et nitro prius, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8868" xml:space="preserve">nigrâ per fundere amurcâ.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8869" xml:space="preserve">*
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            Nec experientia fruſtrata eſt quoſdam, qui collectam ex ſterquili-
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            nio defluentem aquam nitro miſcuerunt, atque igne excoctam,
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            donec tertia pars in vaporem abijſſet, ſponte ſuâ frigeſcere permi-
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            ſerunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8870" xml:space="preserve">tum in reliquâ aquâ maceratas triduo fabas terræ com-
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            miſerunt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8871" xml:space="preserve">euentu enim non pœnitendo vberrimos fructus college-
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            runt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8872" xml:space="preserve">Cineres tamen, meâ quidem ſententiâ, ad </s>
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