Casati, Paolo, Terra machinis mota : dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae physicae hydrostaticae
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              multiplici componitur. </s>
              <s>Sic peritrochium̨
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              diametrum habens decuplam ſui axis facit
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              potentiæ momentum decuplum: at duo pe­
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              ritrochia Rationem quintuplam ad ſuos axes
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              habentia ſi componantur ſimul, potentiæ
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              momentum conſtituunt vigequintuplum̨. </s>
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              Id quod & in cochlearum compoſitione ma­
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              nifeſtum eſt, cum ſatius ſit duas cochleas cum
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              duobus tympanis componere, quam heli­
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              cem vnam ſtrictiorem vni tympano maiori
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              congruentem adhibere. </s>
              <s>Hoc in vectibus,
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              hoc in trochleis abundè eſt demonſtratum. </s>
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              <s>Sed adhuc rudioribus quibuſdam eximen­
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              da eſt dubitatio, quæ ancipitem animum̨
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              torquet, an videlicet ea ſit totius globi huius,
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              quem terram dicimus, grauitas, quæ ad
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              librarum numerum reuocata paucioribus
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              quàm triginta ciphris explicari queat. </s>
              <s>Quam­
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              uis enim illam certis finibus circumſcri­
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              ptam, ac numero definitam exiſtiment, ſibi
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              tamen facilè perſuadent
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              , vt quidam apud Archi­
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              medem arenæ multitudinem conſiderantes
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              opinabantur: quaſi Arithmeticæ facultatis
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              labor vltimus omnem poſt ſe relinqueret no­
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              menclaturam. </s>
              <s>Quantam igitur grauitatem
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              globo huic, qui terras ac maria complecti­
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              tur, tribuemus? </s>
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