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

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              quatuor horarum spatio proximè reuolui ſupponatur; neceſſe
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              eſt, vt quæ partes hoc momento celeriùs, tardiuſve moueri inci­
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              piunt, iterùm poſt horas viginti quatuor ſimili celeritate, aut
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              tarditate moueantur, vt manifeſtum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.002310">Si hæc igitur di­
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              uerſitas motus cauſſa eſſet quotidianorum æſtuum, deberent
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              præcisè poſt horas viginti quatuor recurrere, cùm vnâ ferè
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              horâ quotidie tardiùs recurrant. </s>
              <s id="s.002311">Quò fit, vt ſingulis men­
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              ſibus tunc mare maximè quieſcat, cùm habita ratione motus
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              Telluris ſummè feruere deberet; & contrà, tum vehementer
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              ferueat, cùm illud paccatè quieſcere oporteret.
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              <s id="s.002312"> Verùm vno
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              verbo inſinuatum eſt in Epiſtolis naturam aquæ flui­
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              dam obſtare, ne aqua circumferatur tam facilè, ac reli­
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              qui globi compacta natura. </s>
              <s id="s.002313">Quippe cùm motus re­
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              liqui globi non exquiſitè obfecundet (ſcilicet, ſi ob­
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              ſecundaret, nullus æſtus exſiſteret) ideò neceſſe eſt
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              eius motum fieri non-nihil retardatiorem, & menſurâ
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              quidem tarditatis acceptâ ex portione motus Lunæ
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              menſtrui addita diurno Telluris, quatenus ab ipſo de­
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              pendet, imò idem reipsâ eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.002314">Quia enim, vt Sol ſibi ipſi
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              intra dies proximè viginti ſeptem circumductus Ter­
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              ram vnà circumvehit, ſed ſegniùs tamen inſequentem,
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              & non-niſiintra annum abſoluentem circuitum, pro­
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              pter diffuſiores, paucioreſque radios, qui cùm in Ve­
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              nere, & Mercurio confertiores ſint, circuitus in ipſis
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              faciunt celeriores: ſic Terra ſibi circumducta intra ho­
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              ras viginti quatuor, Lunam circum ſe abripit, ſed ſe­
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              gniùs tamen obſequentem, & non-niſi intra menſem,
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              abſoluentem circuitum, qui abſolueretur haud-dubiè
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              celeriùs, ſi confertiores radios exceptura, circum ferretur
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              propiùs: Ideò, vt motus Terræ annuus eſt veluti com-</s>
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