Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              rum, quæ leui excipiuntur igne facilè perdiſ­
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              ces. </s>
              <s id="s.001206">Nam quæ vehementi igne indigent, om­
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              nes ſiccant vehementer, plerunque etiam
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              excalefaciunt.
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              An ſit poſſi­
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              bile facere
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              aquam quæ
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              in multa ſe­
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              cula vitam
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              proroget.</s>
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              <s id="s.001208">Ergo hîc rurſus dubitatio alia oritur, an
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              aquam liceat facere temperatam, quam
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              quintam vocant eſſentiam? </s>
              <s id="s.001209">Erit autem hæc
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              ( vt docebo
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              æther, id eſt, ſubſtantia te­
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              nuiſſima mobilis, & quæ motu calorem
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              temperatum retinet, & tamen plurimum.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.001210">Hæc igitur vires omnes conſeruare poteſt,
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              & vitam producere. </s>
              <s id="s.001211">Nam cum tenuiſſima
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              ſit, miſcet ſe humido primo, penetrans ſo­
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              lida, ac excrementa ſeparat, quæ in illo
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              continentur. </s>
              <s id="s.001212">Qui verò calidi plurimum ha­
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              bet, eiicit impurum quicquid eſt, natura­
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              lémque ob id calorem inſtaurat. </s>
              <s id="s.001213">Nihil enim
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              aliud eſt ſenectus, quam naturalis caloris
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              imminutio: imminuitur verò, quia motus
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              prohibetur, vt de igne dixi: ſimilis eſt enim
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              huius ad illum ratio. </s>
              <s id="s.001214">Motus verò prohibe­
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              tur ob terræ ſubſtantiæ abundantiam: quo­
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              niam ſola terra plurimam habet materiam,
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              & motu omninò caret. </s>
              <s id="s.001215">Ergo aqua illa calo­
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              re cùm ſit temperato, nec cor vexabit, nec
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              iecori infeſta erit. </s>
              <s id="s.001216">Itaque ſola hæc, iſta quæ
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              diximus præſtare poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001217">Referunt in Bonic­
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              ca inſula, quæ ab Hiſpaniola orbis noui M.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.001218">C C. paſſuum millibus diſtat, fontem in
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              vertice montis eſſe qui ſenes reſtituat, non
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              tamen canos mutet, nec tollat iam contra­
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              ctas rugas. </s>
              <s id="s.001219">Cuius rei præter perſeuerantem
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              famam, locuples teſtis Petrus Martyr An­
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              gerius Mediolanenſis, à ſecretis Regis olim
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              Hiſpaniarum, in ſuis decadibus orbis nuper
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              inuenti. </s>
              <s id="s.001220">Sed Ouiedus conſtanter negat. </s>
              <s id="s.001221">Nos
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              eſſe poſſe non dubitamus, eſſe haud fatemur.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.001222">Tum minus id credendum, quòd breui, &
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              paucis diebus id fieri dicunt. </s>
              <s id="s.001223">At homo an­
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              norum multitudine ſeneſcit, non igitur iu­
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              ueneſcere poteſt, niſi annorum ſpatio:
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              quamobrem id tentare atque experiri diffi­
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              cillimum. </s>
              <s id="s.001224">In ac̈re bono, aqua optima eſſe
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              debet: aër autem optimus (vt dixi) in mon­
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              tium iugis: ibi autem incommoda multa
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              hominibus, quare paucis vſu euenit vt à
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              natura auxilium hoc aſſequantur. </s>
              <s id="s.001225">Ergo vt
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              ad rem reuertar, ne tam longè petatur, cùm
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              ardens aqua diuturno circulationis motu te­
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              nuitatem retinens, caliditatem, acumén­
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              que ſaporis ác odoris exuerit, æther eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001226">At­
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              tamen primùm fragrat. </s>
              <s id="s.001227">Eſt enim nil aliud
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              odor frangans, quam acutus, cum modera­
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              tus extiterit. </s>
              <s id="s.001228">Indicio eſt, quòd piper non
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              fragrat, nec zingiber, quia immodicè ſint
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              acuta, parua tamen quantitas benè olet. </s>
              <s id="s.001229">At
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              quæ bene olent contraria ratione, cinamo­
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              mum, amomum, crocus, garyophyli, li­
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              lia, moſchus; moderatè acuta ſunt: & ſi
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              plurimum ex his naribus ſuppoſueris, vt
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              piper, cerebrum feriunt, nec bene olere
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              videntur. </s>
              <s id="s.001230">Allia & cepæ, quòd humorem
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              habeant putredinis haud expertem, etſi acu­
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              ta ſint, tamen etiam quia moderata non
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              ſunt, fœtent. </s>
              <s id="s.001231">Igitur ardentem aquam, ſi
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              ad temperamentum redierit, tenuitate re­
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              tenta neceſſe eſt fragrantem fieri: & ſi fra­
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              grans fiat, neceſſe eſt viciſſim in æthera
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              eſſe conuerſam. </s>
              <s id="s.001232">Fit & quæ iuuentutem in­
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              ſtauret aqua cum tyri carne, fit & cum hel­
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              leboro, qualem apud patrem meum vidi:
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              ſed hæ diuexant corpora, & iuuentutis ima­
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              ginem fucatam redimunt, non præſtant iu­
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              uentutem. </s>
              <s id="s.001233">Æther verò veram præſtat, cùm
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              eam retineat diu quam habent, & exornet.
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              <s id="s.001234">Sed nunquid ſemper? </s>
              <s id="s.001235">Non, ſed cùm non fue­
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              rit prohibens: prohibens autem materia
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              multa. </s>
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              <s id="s.001236">Rurſus ne igne, qui calidiſſimus eſt, te­
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              nuior æther? </s>
              <s id="s.001237">Certè ſic, nam cœlo conti­
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              guus, ideóque leuiſſimus: impreſſam enim
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              ab aſtris caliditatem circulatione modera­
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              tur tenuitate retenta? </s>
              <s id="s.001238">atque eodem modo
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              hæc aqua calore ignis ad ſummam redacta
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              tenuitatem, motu ipſo refrigeratur, ac tem­
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              periem acquirit. </s>
              <s id="s.001239">Itaque & hæc, & æther,
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              medium quaſi ſunt inter mortalia, immor­
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              taliáque. </s>
              <s id="s.001240">Locum enim cùm habeat ac tem­
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              periem, tum ſubſtantiam cœlo proximam,
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              corrumpi nequit. </s>
              <s id="s.001241">Dum verò infrà impelli­
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              tur, refrigeratur, atque ſic poſt multa ſecu­
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              la corrumpitur. </s>
              <s id="s.001242">Itaque medium eſt quaſi
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              mortalis, ac immortalis, cuius generis Stoi­
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              ci animam humanam eſſe credunt. </s>
              <s id="s.001243">Sed quòd
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              hîc ex ardente aqua æther elaboratur, cùm
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              à calore attenuetur, à motu non cogatur,
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              non parum tenuius euadit. </s>
              <s id="s.001244">Itaque ſimili ra­
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              tione vtrunque afficitur. </s>
              <s id="s.001245">Sic verò quæcun­
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              que calore ignis permutantur, euidentem ca­
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              liditatem & ſiccitatem acquirunt: vt calx
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              & cinis. </s>
              <s id="s.001246">Sed differunt, quia in calce calor
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              non finitur, in cinere iam exhauſtus fermè
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              totus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001247">Ob id qui eſcharotica componunt
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              ex calce & cinere medicamenta, à calce præ­
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              cipuè caliditatem quærunt, à cinere ſiccita­
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              tem. </s>
              <s id="s.001248">Sic qui aquam qua metalla ſeparantur,
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              educunt. </s>
              <s id="s.001249">Fit autem hoc modo: Halinitri
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              partem vnam, liquidi aluminis, quod ro­
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              chæ vocant, partes tres, arenæ mediam,
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              ſiccata diligenter, & purgata igne diſtillan­
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              tur vitreis vaſis. </s>
              <s id="s.001250">Colligitur autem ſeorſum
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              quod priùs effluit, cùm crocea demum vi­
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              detur vaſis facies: actis ignibus alia ſucce­
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              dit, quæ priore excipitur plerunque: & ta­
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              men ſi aquam fontis excipias, adhuc adeò
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              acris eſt, vt nihilominus argentum diſſol­
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              uat, & ipſum ab auro ſeparet. </s>
              <s id="s.001251">Separatur
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              autem ſic: Aqua extractæ partem modicam
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              accipe, cui argenti puriſſimi pondus oboli,
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              id eſt, XII. granorum impone, ac impoſi­
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              tam cineribus tamdiu permitte, donec diſ­
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              ſoluatur argentum. </s>
              <s id="s.001252">Hæc purgamenta calci
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              tenui ſimilia in imum vaſis demittet, qui­
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              bus ſublatis quod reliquum eſt aquæ purio­
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              ris, toti aquæ à qua iam detraxeras addes,
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              quæ ſimili exemplo & ipſa purgamenta illis
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              ſimilia in imum demittet, quibus ſublatis
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              a quam totam puriſſimam, ac magis habe­
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              bis ad argentum ac cætera metalla, præter
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              aurum, diſſoluendum efficacem. </s>
              <s id="s.001253">Cùm verò
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              facilè euaneſcat, vaſe vitreo diligenter oc­
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              cluſa tenetur. </s>
              <s id="s.001254">Vires autem æſtimanti quan­
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              tas habeat, quæ excepta ( vt dixi ) aqua pu­
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              tei, etiam ſine igne in horis 24. argentum
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              in aquam redigat, modico autem cinerum
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              calore in duabus aut tribus horis, non eſt
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              qui miram vim vaporibus illis extremis, ac
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              aquæ in quam vertuntur, imò incredibi­
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              lem non tribuat. </s>
              <s id="s.001255">Eiuſdem generis eſt, quæ
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              fit ſalibus ammoniaco, nitróque, tum cal-</s>
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