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

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              cùm propiùs ad nos accedunt, non minores videri, ſed maiores:
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              vbi verò longiùs à Terra remouentur, non maiores conspici,
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              ſed apparere minores. </s>
              <s id="s.002236">Vnde ergo, quæſo te, colligis
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              olem ex
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              immenſa Siderum diſtantia conspectum non modò maiorem
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              videndum, quàm nobis vicinioribus appareat, ſed tantæ etiam
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              magnitudinis, vt regionem quoque Planetariam totam, atque
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              integram æquare videretur.
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              <s id="s.002237"> Sed nimirùm, optime Vir,
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              cùm ipſe cauſſam reticeas, cur candelæ flamma appa­
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              reat per noctem adauctior; quòd ſagacitas illa tua, quan­
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              tum coniicere par eſt, difficultatem prouiderit, quæ ex­
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              citari in vulgarem cauſſæ explicationem poteſt; non
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              ea mihi tamen fuit prætermittenda, quæ eſt probabi­
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              liſſima viſa, vt præoccupando declarare poſſem, quod
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              iam rogas me, vnde-nam putà colligam, Solem è Fixis
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              conſpectum poſſe apparere æqualem regioni Planeta­
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              riæ, ſicque maiorem, quàm heinc videri. </s>
              <s id="s.002238">Siquidem
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              conatus idem explicare ex cauſſa vulgò reddita, viſus
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              mihi ipſi ridiculus ſum ob illius inanitatem. </s>
              <s id="s.002239">Ecce
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              enim dicere ſolent,
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              aërem proximè circumſtantem eâ vehe­
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              mentiâ illuſtrari ob halituoſas quaſdam parteis è flamma con­
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              tinuò diffugienteis, vt computetur in eandem flammam, parti­
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              bus videlicet illis factis adſpectabilibus exſiſtenti oculo procùl,
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              & in minore lumine; cùm è vicino, ab eximio flammæ ſplen­
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              dore occultentur.
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              <s id="s.002240"> At quomodo probare valeant eſſe has
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              halituoſas parteis illuſtrationis eius capaceis, vt totum
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              aëreum ſpatium, in quo ſunt, efficiant non minùs illu­
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              ſtre, quàm flammam? </s>
              <s id="s.002241">Nam non negabunt profectò
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              flammam eſſe centies, aut etiam millies ſplendidiorem
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              eo ſpatio, quod ipſam circumſtat ad vnum, aut ad plu­
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              reis palmos. </s>
              <s id="s.002242">Itaque dum procùl ſpectamus candelam, </s>
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