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

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              quies, quid ad Solem? </s>
              <s id="s.002257">Poteſt-ne oculus in Solem reſ­
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              pectans cenſeri eſſe in tenebris? </s>
              <s id="s.002258">Poteſt-ne Solem noctu
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              videre? </s>
              <s id="s.002259">Reſpondeo poſſe haud-dubiè; neque id ha­
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              bendum eſſe Paradoxum; quatenus id fore intelligi­
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              tur, cùm oculus demùm eâ fuerit diftantiâ, è qua Sol
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              non maior, quàm vna Stellarum appareat, & è qua pro­
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              inde non tenebras magis, quàm Stellarum vna diſcu­
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              tiat, neque oculum magis proinde perſtringat. </s>
              <s id="s.002260">Ex quo
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              fit, vt dum ex me quæris,
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              vnde colligam Solem ex immenſa
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              illa diſtantia non modò viſum iri maiorem, quàm appareat no­
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              bis vicinioribus, ſed etiam tantæ magnitudinis, vt toti regioni
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              Planetariæ exæquetur?
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              Rogem te, attendas, cur ex me
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              id quæras. </s>
              <s id="s.002261">Nam cùm ego quidem profitear viſum
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              iri Solem ex illa diſtantia, quaſi vnam aliquam Stel­
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              lam heinc vbi degimus conſpectam; neque dico ſanè,
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              neque colligo viſum iri nobis maiorem, quàm vici­
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              nioribus iam videatur. </s>
              <s id="s.002262">Et tametſi dicam viſum iri tan­
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              tum, quantum Orbem magnum, inſignemve portio­
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              nem regionis Planetariæ; cauſſa eſt, quia ex eadem
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              diſtantia totus Orbis magnus non maiore appareret
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              amplitudine, quàm heinc appareat vna Stellarum cum
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              circumfuſis corpuſculo radiis. </s>
              <s id="s.002263">Tu verò ſic interrogas,
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              vt ſi cenſerem ex ea diſtantia tum magnum Orbem
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              appariturum eiuſdem, qua propè amplitudinis; tum
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              Solem non modò maiorem, quàm heinc conſpiciatur;
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              ſed etiam quantus Orbis magnus ex Marte, v. g. aut
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              Ioue conſpiceretur, appariturum. </s>
              <s id="s.002264">Quòd verò ſic in­
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              terrogas, eo permotus argumento,
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              quòd conſtet Lu­
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              nam, ac Martem, ipſumque etiam Solem quò propiùs acce­
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              dunt ad nos, eò maiores conſpici; quò longiùs abſcedunt,
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