Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              ſtantia adeò clarè diſpicerem, parúmque abeſſet, quin
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              legere paginam poſſem. </s>
              <s id="s.002188">Tum verò è veſtigio ſubiit
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              me ingens admiratio, quî fieret, vt potiùs, ſi Stel­
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              larum diſci tanti eſſent, quanti eſſe perhiberentur, non
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              longè magis collucerent, nempe longè ampliùs, quàm
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              Luna: quippe cùm & Stellarum lux ſit lunari longè
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              viuidior; & diſci earum compoſiti viderentur mihi
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              confecturi diſcum lunari maiorem. </s>
              <s id="s.002189">Siquidem quam­
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              vis diſculi earum forent toto cælo diſperſi; videban­
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              tur tamen tantumdem præſtare poſſe luminis reſpectu
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              partis eiuſdem Terræ ab hemiſphærio toto reſpectæ;
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              ſicut reſpectu eiuſdem aulæ tantumdem præſtant (aut
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              etiam ampliùs) candelæ variæ, ex quibus poſteà fax
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              quædam ingens componitur. </s>
              <s id="s.002190">Rursùs itaque è veſti­
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              gio ſubiit mentem recordatio obſeruatæ exilitatis tam
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              Planetarum, quàm Fixarum; ac cenſui ad illam refe­
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              rendum eſſe, quòd Stellarum lux adeò debilis ad nos
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              perueniret. </s>
              <s id="s.002191">Quam-primùm diuerti ad hoſpitium, in
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              quo fortè fortuna cælorum ſehema reperi, continens
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              inter cætera, quot Stellæ eſſent primæ magnitudinis,
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              quot ſecundæ, quot tertiæ, & ad vſque ſextam, ad
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              quam retuli obſcuriores alias, quibus mille viginti
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              duarum abſoluitur numerus; continere non potui me,
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              quin ad calculos rem totam vocarem. </s>
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              <s id="s.002192">XXXV. </s>
              <s id="s.002193">Ac primùm quidem ſupponendo eſſe Stel­
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              larum diametros, cuiuſmodi vulgò apparent, explorare
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              lubuit quem diſcum earum omnium diſci coniuncti
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              crearent. </s>
              <s id="s.002194">Attribuendo igitur Stellis primæ magnitu­
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              dinis, dum profunda nocte ſpectantur, diametrum
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              minutorum trium; Stellis ſecundæ diametrum duo-</s>
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