Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 1: Opera mechanica

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              <pb o="212" file="0290" n="317" rhead="EXCERPTA EX LIT. CHRIST. HUGENII."/>
            ſit, ut deliberarent de eo quod faciendum eſſet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4703" xml:space="preserve">Ubi verò vidiſſet
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            commentarios, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4704" xml:space="preserve">ephemerides, quas illi, qui præerant 3 iis na-
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            vibus proferebant, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4705" xml:space="preserve">conjecturam de loco in quo verſaban-
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            tur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4706" xml:space="preserve">cumque poſt longas deliberationes, omnes cenſerent, præ-
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            ſtare ad Barbadas trajicere, quam oras Africæ quærere,
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            quia ventus longe citius eos illuc transferret, dixit ille: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4707" xml:space="preserve">Viri
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            computatio veſtra cum noſtra minimè convenit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4708" xml:space="preserve">nam ſecun-
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            dum Horologia mea proceſſi, unde concludo, vos errare
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            omnes, ſtatuendo nos multò longius Occidentem verſus eſſe pro-
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            greſſos, quam revera ſumus, unius error eſt 120 milliaria, alîus
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            100, alîus 80: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4709" xml:space="preserve">verùm ita Horologiis confido ut hac vice experi-
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            mentum facere velim; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4710" xml:space="preserve">nam ſecundum meam computationem in-
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            ſula del Fuogo (quæ una eſt ex inſulis Capoverdæ ſeu promontorii
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            Heſperii,) non ultra 30 milliaria a nobis abeſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4711" xml:space="preserve">Ibi nobis a-
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            quam poſſumus curare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4712" xml:space="preserve">eo curſum dirigere conſtitui; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4713" xml:space="preserve">Si
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            vera eſt computatio, multum præſtabit nobis hanc viam in-
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            gredi, quam a vobis oſtenſam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4714" xml:space="preserve">ſin evenerit aliter, biduum
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            tantum producemus navigationem, ſatisque aquæ interim ſu-
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            pererit, ut Barbadas perveniamus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4715" xml:space="preserve">quoniam tanta mihi in
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            navi copia eſt, ut vobis defectum veſtrum ſupplere queam;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4716" xml:space="preserve">Addens quem curſum tenere vellet, mandavit ut ſequerentur
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            ipſum cæteri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4717" xml:space="preserve">Poſtero mane detegebant iuſulam del Fuogo, & </s>
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            opportuno illuc advenêre tempore, uti prædixerat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4719" xml:space="preserve">Cogor hic
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            deſinere, communicaturus tecum reliquos omnes caſus peculia-
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            res, quos ſcriptis mandare promiſit, quamprimum illos nactus
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            fuero.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4721" xml:space="preserve">Nota, hæc Horologia fuiſſe ex primo Pendulorum gene-
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            re, nec tam exacta quam recentiora.</s>
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