Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              modo refrigerat. </s>
              <s id="s.001143">Ergo quod calefacit, per
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              ſe calefacit: quòd refrigerat, ſolùm ex ac­
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              cidenti. </s>
              <s id="s.001144">Repugnabis forſan, quoniam re­
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              frigerari ſentimus nos, non aliter à frigidis
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              tum repentè, vt à calidis calefieri, vt pro­
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              ducta frigoris quædam ſpecies videatur.
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              <s id="s.001145">Equidem ( vt dixi ) nihil aliud eſt frigidum,
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              quàm caloris priuatio: & quæ mouentur
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              nec conſiſtunt, refrigerantur, vt aqua, &
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              ventorum validorum aër. </s>
              <s id="s.001146">Porrò cùm conta­
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              ctu refrigeratur, ſolùm ſuperficies refrigera­
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              tur, fugiente intus palàm calore: nec poſſibi­
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              le eſt ob hoc ſubitò quippiam refrigerari,
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              mora autem ducta refrigerantur etiam pe­
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              nitiſſimæ partes. </s>
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              <s id="s.001147">Atque hæc vera ſunt rerum naturalium
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              fundamenta, in quibus nihil eſt repugnans.
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              <s id="s.001148">Qui verò eas qualitates ſubſtantiis affixas
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              imaginantur, & frigiditatem aliquod eſſe
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              naturæ principium, in difficillimas perue­
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              niunt quæſtiones, rerúmque quæ videntur
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              cauſas dicere non poſſunt, omniáque ſilen­
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              tio ac verbis obſcuris inuoluere, tum etiam
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              ambiguis, nituntur. </s>
              <s id="s.001149">Igitur calor ipſe propria
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              qualitas eſt cœleſtis, hæc agitans corpora,
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              quæ motu adiuta ignem creat. </s>
              <s id="s.001150">Si à materia
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              obruatur ac impediatur, frigus gignit. </s>
              <s id="s.001151">Quæ­
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              cunque autem motu non eadem manent,
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              frigidiora euadunt, vt aqua & aër. </s>
              <s id="s.001152">Aëris
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              verò temperiem facit radiorum multitu­
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              do Solis, tum ſyderum, quos excipit,
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              qui illum calefaciunt. </s>
              <s id="s.001153">Terra verò non adeò
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              eſſe frigida poteſt vt aqua, quoniam non
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              mouetur. </s>
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              <s id="s.001154">His itaque conſtitutis, quibus non pauca
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              quæ iamdiu latuerunt, oſtendemus naturæ
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              ſecreta, ad ignis rurſus hiſtoriam reuertan­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.001155">Verùm de ſubſtantiarum ſubtilitate ali­
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              qua priùs præponere oportet. </s>
              <s id="s.001156">Quædam igi­
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              tur dicuntur tenues per ſe, vt aër: quædam
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              quantitate, vt capilli: quædam quia fluunt,
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              vt ſanguis: quædam quia in partes tenuiſſi­
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              mas diuidi poſſunt, vt aurum: aliæ quia plu­
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              ra ex his habent, vt ſpiritus, qui noſtra­
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              rum ſunt operationum inſtrumenta. </s>
              <s id="s.001157">Fiunt
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              autem ab arte pleraque tenuia, velut plum­
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              bum, quòd adeò attenuatur arte, vt in pul­
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              uerem redigatur, ex quo horologia fieri ſo­
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              lent. </s>
              <s id="s.001158">Liquefactum enim agitatur celerrimè
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              in mortario: ideò cum cogi non poſſit, tran­
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              ſit in puluerem. </s>
              <s id="s.001159">Et quamvis ars in tenuiſſi­
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              ma redigat ligna, aut lapides, aut metalla,
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              non tamen ipſa miſcet, nec attenuat ſub­
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              ſtantiam, ſed ſolùm quantitatem. </s>
              <s id="s.001160">Ignis ve­
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              rò ſi attenuat, ſeparat: aut ſi miſcet, non
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              attenuat. </s>
              <s id="s.001161">Separando enim quæ craſſa ſunt,
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              attenuantis ſpeciem præbet. </s>
              <s id="s.001162">Sola natura ſi­
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              mul miſcere atque attenuare ſubſtantiam
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              poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001163">Cùm enim ( vt dixi
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              )
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              nunc vocem
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              ſubtilia quæ duci poſſunt, atque ea ductilia,
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              vel humida eſſe neceſſe ſit, ignis verò ſic­
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              cet, attenuare non poteſt, niſi ſeparet. </s>
              <s id="s.001164">At­
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              tenuat ergo vel comminuendo ſicca, vt
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              cùm arenam in puluerem redigit, aut col­
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              liquando, vt metallica: tenues partes ſe­
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              parando, vt in diſtillationibus. </s>
              <s id="s.001165">Verùm dum
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              ſicca comminuat, colliquet humida, etiam
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              attenuat. </s>
              <s id="s.001166">Contigit tamen in diſtillationibus
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              aliquid attenuari ac alteri miſceri, cùm à
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              calido humido, non ab igne fiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.001167">Calor
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              enim miſcet, & cum humido attenuat. </s>
              <s id="s.001168">Fit
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              autem hoc vaſes in aquam feruentem im­
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              miſſis, vocátque Mariæ balneum. </s>
              <s id="s.001169">Proximum
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              bonitate diſtillationis genus huic in equino
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              fimo: inde quod per cineres præſtantiſſimum
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              in oleum detractum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001170">Nam cùm calida
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              ſit ac humida ſubſtantia, per multos men­
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              ſes calorem ſeruare poteſt, atque eò longio­
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              re temporis ſpatio quàm vuarum acini, quo
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              oliuarum ſubſtantia denſior eſt, ac pinguior.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.001171">At nullum horum metalla liquare poteſt,
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              ſed illa igne indigent. </s>
              <s id="s.001172">Sed vt ardentiſſima
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              diſtillatio fit per ignes, ita miſtioni ac veræ
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              attenuationi inepta: cui fermè ſimilis eſt,
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              quæ fit per cineres. </s>
              <s id="s.001173">Nam ſi igne diſtillata
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              fæcibus ſuis miſcueris, fiet totum pro mo­
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              lis ratione grauiùs quàm antea, tum etiam
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              ſiccius. </s>
              <s id="s.001174">Non igitur verè attenuat ignis, ſed
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              natura ipſa, quæ totam ſubſtantiam conco­
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              quit ac miſcet. </s>
              <s id="s.001175">Vnde ob ſubtilitatem omnia
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              in vnum conueniunt, miſtúmque denſius,
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              fit, & tamen ex ſubtiliſſimis compoſitum
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              partibus. </s>
              <s id="s.001176">Ergo in naturali coctione, vt quæ
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              in liquido duriſſima, etiam vim ignis obti­
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              neat, & mollis balnei in attenuando, partes
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              craſſiores comminuuntur, quod ab igne im­
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              petrari non poteſt.
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              Subtilitatis
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              in ſubſtantia
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              genera.</s>
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              Subtilitates
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              ab arte, na­
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              tura, & igne
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              in quibus
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              differant.
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              <s id="s.001179">Plumbum
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              quomodo in
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              puluerem
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              tranſeat.
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              <s id="s.001180">Ignis quo­
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              modo atte­
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              nuet.</s>
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              Diſtillatio­
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              nis vſus &
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              genera.</s>
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              Ignis
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              ve­
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              rè attenuat.</s>
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              Aquæ diflil­
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              latæ an vires
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              habeant.</s>
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              <s id="s.001184">Sed ex his non leuis emergit dubitatio.
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              <s id="s.001185">Nam ſi ignis cuncta calefacit, ſiccátque,
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              omnes aquæ, quæ diſtillatione habentur,
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              calidæ ac ſiccæ eſſe deberent. </s>
              <s id="s.001186">Nec repugnat
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              ſubſtantia, quòd aquea ſit: talis enim cùm
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              fit ardens, & vritur, & corpora humana
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              egregiè excalefacit, ac ſiccat. </s>
              <s id="s.001187">Rurſus aquæ
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              omnes frigidæ ſunt ac humidæ, vincente
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              ſubſtantia. </s>
              <s id="s.001188">At neutrum ſemper verum eſt,
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              imò aliquæ ex his ſimiliores ſunt his, à
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              quibus excipiuntur: vt roſàcea, odore, ſa­
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              pore, viribus. </s>
              <s id="s.001189">Vrceus aquæ plantaginis
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              fluentem vndequaque ſanguinem ſiſtere po­
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              teſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001190">Non idem facit lactucæ aqua, etſi ſit
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              frigidior. </s>
              <s id="s.001191">Quidam nuper dum memoriam
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              augere niteretur, meliſſam triduo albo vino
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              infundit, inde leuiter expreſſo vino, aquam
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              diſtillando collegit, cuius potu memoriam
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              recuperare viſus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001192">Sed cùm calidi eſſet ie­
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              coris, bonam valetudinem penè funditus
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              euertit. </s>
              <s id="s.001193">Atque hunc modum Chymiſtæ vo­
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              cant, ſtellas cœlo infigere. </s>
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              <s id="s.001194">Quæri igitur ſolet, an aquæ hæ proprias
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              vires retineant? </s>
              <s id="s.001195">Diximus olim, dum de malo
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              medendi vſu loqueremur, nullas eſſe vires,
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              quòd odore, & ſapore
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              . </s>
              <s id="s.001196">Abſynthij
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              enim aqua, nec
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              redolet nec amara
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              eſt: imò quod mirum eſt, ſubdulcis. </s>
              <s id="s.001197">
                <expan abbr="Ardẽs">Ardens</expan>
              ta­
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              men, vt roſaceam præteream,
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              facit ineſſe
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              vim aquis. </s>
              <s id="s.001198">Nam ſi talem ob ignem eſſe di­
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              cas, qui eſt quòd nulla aliarum talis ſit?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.001199">Nam hæc egregiè calefacit, ſiccat, pene­
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              trat, acutum olet, ardet. </s>
              <s id="s.001200">Itaque vires aquis
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              iam ineſſe certum eſt, ſed nec omnibus, nec
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              æquas. </s>
              <s id="s.001201">Quæcunque enim res tenuem ſub­
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              ſtantiam habent frigidæque iunctam, aquam
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              emittunt ſibi non abſimilem, vt roſa. </s>
              <s id="s.001202">Quæ
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              verò tenuem & calidam ſimilem ſed vren­
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              tem emittunt, vt vinum, & metallicorum
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              quædam. </s>
              <s id="s.001203">Quæ craſſam & calidam, diſſimilem
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              & prauam, vt abſynthium. </s>
              <s id="s.001204">quæ craſſam ac
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              frigidam, diſſimilem, ſed non prauam, vt cu­
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              curbitæ. </s>
              <s id="s.001205">Iuxta hanc rationem vires aqua-</s>
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