Castelli, Benedetto, Of the mensuration of running waters, 1661

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              ſo to be by the Signors of
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              Bracciano
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              to the
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              Apoſtolick-Chamber
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              ;
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              and there was a meaſure thereof made at the beginning of the
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              Aqueduct; which meaſure proved afterwards much leſſe and
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              ſhort, conſidered and taken in
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              Rome,
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              and thence followed diſ­
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              contents and great diſorders, and all becauſe this property of
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              Running-Waters, of increaſing in meaſure, where the velocity
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              decreaſed; and of diminiſhing in meaſure, where the velocity
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              augmented, was not lookt into.</s>
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              <s>APPENDIX III.</s>
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              <s>Alike errour, in my judgement, hath beeen committed by
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              all thoſe learned men, which to prevent the diverſion of
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              the
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              Reno
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              of
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              Bologna
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              into P
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              o
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              by the Channels, through
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              which it at preſent runneth, judged, that the
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              Reno
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              being in its
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              greater excreſcence about 2000 feet, and the P
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              o
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              being near
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              1000 feet broad, they judged, I ſay, that letting the
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              Reno
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              into
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              P
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              o,
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              it would have raiſed the Water of P
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              o
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              two feet; from which
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              riſe, they concluded afterwards moſt exorbitant diſorders, either
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              of extraordinary Inundations, or elſe of immenſe and intolera­
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              ble expences to the people in raiſing the Banks of P
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              o
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              and
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              Reno,
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              and with ſuch like weakneſſes, often vainly diſturbed the minds
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              of the perſons concerned: But now from the things demonſtra­
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              ted, it is manifeſt, That the meaſure of the
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              Reno
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              in
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              Reno,
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              would
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              be different from the meaſure of
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              Reno
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              in P
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              o
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              ; in caſe that the
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              velocity of the
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              Reno
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              in P
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              o,
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              ſhould differ from the velocity
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              of
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              Reno
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              in
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              Reno,
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              as is more exactly determined in the fourth Pro­
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              poſition.</s>
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              <s>APPENDIX IV.</s>
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              <s>No leſs likewiſe are thoſe Ingeneers and Artiſts deceived,
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              that have affirmed, That letting the
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              Reno
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              into P
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              o,
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              there
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              would be no riſe at all in the Water of P
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              o
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              : For the truth
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              is, That letting
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              Reno
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              into P
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              o,
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              there would alwaies be a riſing; but
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              ſometimes greater, ſometimes leſſe, as the P
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              o
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              ſhall have a ſwifter
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              or ſlower Current; ſo that if the P
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              o
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              ſhall be conſtituted in a great
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              velocity, the riſe will be very ſmall; and if the ſaid P
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              o
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              ſhall be
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              ſlow in its courſe, then the riſe will be notable.</s>
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              <s>APPENDIX V.</s>
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              <s>And here it will not be beſides the purpoſe to advertiſe, That
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              the meaſures, partments, and diſtributions of the Waters
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              of Fountains, cannot be made exactly, unleſs there be con­</s>
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