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

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              retar datione. </s>
              <s id="s.002319">Prætereo quoque hanc retardationem,
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              quatenus ex aquæ ſluore, lentoréque ſimùl dependet,
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              confirmari poſſe videri ex conſimili retardatione aëris,
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              de qua in Epiſtolis dictum; cùm ventus illo continuus,
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              & æquabilis ab ortu in occaſum, quem experiuntur
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              nautæ in alto, non videatur poſſe explicari
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              quàm ex retardatione aëris, ob fluiditatem ſuam inca­
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              pacis, qui conſequatur præciſe motum Telluris conti­
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              nuum, & æquabilem verſus ortum. </s>
              <s id="s.002320">Quo modo quo­
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              que dici poſſet reciprocatione cariturum Mare, futu­
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              rum que motum eius in occaſum continuum, & æqua­
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              bilem, ſi Terræ quaſi nucleus eſſet exquiſitè rotundus,
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              maréque eſſet illi circumfuſum, neque incurreret in
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              littora, verſus quæ elatum, effluere, reflueréque cogere­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.002321">Prætereò & id genus alia; cùm his denique ſit fa­
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              ciendus modus. </s>
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              <s id="s.002322">XLV. </s>
              <s id="s.002323">Itaque Finem iam tandem facio; agnoſcens
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              me reuerâ eum, quem debui, modum non tenuiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.002324">Et
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              conſtitueram quidem initio non-niſi pauca reſponde­
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              re ad ſingula præclaræ tuæ Diſquiſitionis capita: ſed
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              neſcio, quo pacto abreptus, ita ſenſim ab inſtituto, in­
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              cœptoque receſſerim, vt euaſerim denique in hanc,
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              quam vides, prolixitatem. </s>
              <s id="s.002325">Fortè, me quoque peccaſſe
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              putes aduerſus leges vrbanitatis, cùm ab vſque literis
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              datis nihil Reſponſi habueris, niſi poſt exactum iam
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              menſem: at partim cauſſam initio dixi, partim ecce
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              propalàm facio, cùm tibi iſtam quaternionum, folio­
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              rumque ſeriem obiicio. </s>
              <s id="s.002326">Quicquid id ſit rei, Tu ſic ac­
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              cipe, quaſi voluerim ſpontaneam
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              affectus tui teſta­
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              tionem teſtatione conſimili, & cum fœnore quo-</s>
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