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

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              tes, tam ad ipſa latera, quàm ad ſtipites interceptos; ne­
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              que aliò commodiùs has varietates referes, quàm ad
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              varietatèm, qua aqua tam ad latera, quàm ad medium
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              variè allapſa interpedictur: Pari ratione, quoniam
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              Terra capacitatem illam ſuam variantiſſima varietate,
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              ob promontoria, ſinus, freta, iſthmos, inſulas, cherſo­
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              neſos, & alia id genus paſſim occurrentia affectam
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              ſortitur: nihil ſanè dici videtur commodiùs, quàm mi­
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              rabilem illam varietatem, quæ in quotidiano fluxu, &
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              refluxu ad particulareis oras obſeruatur, referendam
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              eſſe ad varietatem ipſarum orarum, ſiue littorum, tam
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              in continentibus, quàm in Inſulis occurrentium. </s>
              <s id="s.002304">Ni­
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              mirùm prout littora properantem aquam in ortum,
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              occaſumve, ſiue è regione, ſiue obliquè excipiunt; &
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              ſiue directò accedentem, ſiue deflexione à littoribus
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              antecedentibus affectam; & ſui ſitu ſiue directo, ſiue
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              flexuoſo, ſinubuſque, ac promontoriis magnis, paruis,
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              raris, crebris, regularibus, irregularibus interrupto; &
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              tractu ſiue longo, ſiue breui, ſiue ſingulari, ſiue repeti­
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              to; & fundo ſiue plano, ſiue prono, ſiue alueoſo, ſiue
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              ſcopuloſo, &c. </s>
              <s id="s.002305">neceſſe eſt aquam diuerſiſſimos acci­
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              pere motus. </s>
              <s id="s.002306">Quod certè in fluminum ripis obſeruare
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              in promptu eſt, heic nempe aquam leniter, illeic rapidè
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              fluere; heic abire rectà, illeic torqueri in vortices; heic
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              vndulare, illeic ſpumare; & id genus ſimilia; idem pro­
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              portione ſeruata conſentaneum eſt fieri, vti & reuerâ
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              obſeruatur fieri, in ipſis littoribus Maris. </s>
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              <s id="s.002307">XLIIII. </s>
              <s id="s.002308">Pergis denique;
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              Sed vide etiam, ſi placet,
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              an ipſemet quotidianus maris æſtus duplex, ſatu ex quotidia­
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              na Telluris motione explicetur. </s>
              <s id="s.002309">Nam cùm Tellus viginti
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