Theodosius <Bithynius>; Clavius, Christoph, Theodosii Tripolitae Sphaericorum libri tres
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            letarij doctrinä in eo retinendam eſſe dixiſſet, Geometricæ enim demon-
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            ſtrationes eiuſmodi ſunt, vt aſſenſum extorqueant, ac dubitationem om-
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            nem excludant, nulloq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11531" xml:space="preserve">modo quempiam ſinant ancipiti opinione diſtra-
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            hi ſic, vt tum aſſentiatur, ſi velit, tum, ſi nolit, diſſentiat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11532" xml:space="preserve">En cur Peletarius
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            Nonij teſtimonio aliorũ iudicia cõtemnat, en pręclarum teſtimoniũ, quod
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            Petrus Nonius eius demonſtrationibus dedit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11533" xml:space="preserve">quò æquiore animo ferat,
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            eas a me nihilo magis, quã ab illo ſuo approbatore, demõſtrationes putari.</s>
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              <emph style="sc">Tertio</emph>
            , quòd exiſtimare dixi Peletarium, angulum contingen-
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            tiæ nihil eſſe, falſum eſſe, clamat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11536" xml:space="preserve">Nuſquam enim dixiſſe ſe, nihil eſſe, ſed
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            quantitatem non eſſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11537" xml:space="preserve">Ita ne vero? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11538" xml:space="preserve">at in prædicamento Quantitatis, quod
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            neque eſt punctum, (quis enim inclinationem illam punctum eſſe dixerit?)
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11539" xml:space="preserve">neque quantitas, quo alio nomine vocetur, quam Nihil? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11540" xml:space="preserve">Sed vt vt dixit,
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            profecto non modo mirabile eſt, ſed monſtri in Geometria fimile, putare
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            angulum contactus non eſſe quantitatem, qui poſtea additus alijs angulis
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            efficiat curuilineum angulum rectilineo æqualem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11541" xml:space="preserve">Quis enim vnquã Geo-
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            metrarum id, quod quantitas non eſt, magnitudini adiunxit, vt æqualem
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            eam alteri efficeret? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11542" xml:space="preserve">Prætereo, quod figura trilatera curuilinea intra tres
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            circulos ſe mutuo tangentes concluſa nullum haberet angulũ ex Peleta-
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            rij ſententia; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11543" xml:space="preserve">quia tres illi contactus, anguli non ſunt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11544" xml:space="preserve">cum tamen tribus di-
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            uerſis lineis contineatur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11545" xml:space="preserve">quod omnino nouum eſt, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11546" xml:space="preserve">inauditũ apud Geo-
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            metras. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11547" xml:space="preserve">Itemque, ſi quatuor, aut plures circuli ſe mutuo tangerent, vt fie-
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            ret figura curuilinea quadrilatera, vel plurium laterum, illa nullum angu-
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            lum haberet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11548" xml:space="preserve">Atque etiam, ſi duæ lineæ rectæ angulum continentes, vnum
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            eundemque circulum tangerent, trilatera illa figura habens tertium latus
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            curuum, vnicum tantum haberet angulum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11549" xml:space="preserve">Quæ omnia ſi ſunt abſurda,
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            conſentanea non eſt opinio Peletarij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11550" xml:space="preserve">Sed nimis fortaſſe multa ad Nihil
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            illud Peletarij euertendum, ad quod tuendum ille nihil afferat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11551" xml:space="preserve">Quoniam
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            vero, ne pro Nihilo ſuo nihil agere videatur, quando res non poteſt, mea
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            verba carpit, verba defendam: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11552" xml:space="preserve">quæ quidẽ ille neſcio quibus præſtigijs ita
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            deprauat, vt dicere videar, nihil eſſe minus quocũq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11553" xml:space="preserve">angulo: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11554" xml:space="preserve">atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11555" xml:space="preserve">(vt ſim-
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            plicem, credo, hominẽ irretiat) quærit ex me, quod tãdem genus ſermonis
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            ſit illud. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11556" xml:space="preserve">Viderit is, cuius ex officina prodijt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11557" xml:space="preserve">Neque enim ego eiuſmodi
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            ſermonem agnoſco, qui, nihil eſſe minus quocunque angulo, nuſquamdi-
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            xerim, niſi ex ſententia Peletarij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11558" xml:space="preserve">Sed videlicet homo vehemens, vt ſuum
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            illud Nihil vlciſceretur, aliud mihi nihil affinxit, quo cum impune pugna-
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            ret: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11559" xml:space="preserve">At quam palæſtrice pugnat? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11560" xml:space="preserve">quam ſibi placet hoc loco, dum meum il-
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            lud argumentum, quo petitus fuerat, in me ipſum mira venuſtate conuer-
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            tit? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11561" xml:space="preserve">Sic enim argumentatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11562" xml:space="preserve">[_Angulus contactus nihil eſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11563" xml:space="preserve">Angulus conta-_
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            _ctus angulo contactus maior eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11564" xml:space="preserve">Angulus igitur maior nihilo eſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11565" xml:space="preserve">Atqui Cla_
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            _uius eundẽ ponit minorẽ nihilo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11566" xml:space="preserve">Eſt igitur angulus contactus nihilo maior, et_
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            _idẽ nihilo minor_] Mox quaſi Nihil illud ab ſe effictũ iugulaſſet, exclamat. </s>
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            [_En Clauy argumenta, quæ vtrum tandem Peletary ſophiſmata ſunt, an_
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            _Clauij potius ſigmenta, cum ipſe ſuum angulum contactus nihil eſſe dicat,_
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            _non ego?_</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11568" xml:space="preserve">] Verum vt hominem fæneum, atque adumbratum nequicquam</s>
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