Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            agris illis degentes? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10798" xml:space="preserve">Apud Atlantem Sinicum in XIII Prouinciâ
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            Quangſi pag.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10799" xml:space="preserve">146. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10800" xml:space="preserve">*Ho mons, ſiue igneus, ita dictus, quod ſingulis*
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            *noctibus quædam in eo appareant lumina, veluti candelæ accenſæ*
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            *forent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10801" xml:space="preserve">putant Sinæ eſſe animalcula, quæ carbunculos vocamus,*
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            *ſeu cicindelas, eaque ex flumine in montem exire, ibique collu-*
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            *cere.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10802" xml:space="preserve">* Et in VIII Prouincia Kiangſi pag.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10803" xml:space="preserve">92. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10804" xml:space="preserve">*Tiencho mons ad vr-*
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            *bis* (Cancheu) *Orientalem partem eſt, in quo noctulux veluti*
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            *accenſorum carbonum apparet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10805" xml:space="preserve">Quidam ſerpentes eſſe putant, aut*
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            *araneos, quos fabulantur pretioſos quoſdam, quos capite gestent,*
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            *euomere lapillos, eoſque denuo ſorbere.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10806" xml:space="preserve">* Quæ fabula euomendi la-
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            pillos, acreſorbendi, indicat lucem illam per interualla apparere,
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            vt nos quoquè in cicindelis obſeruamus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10807" xml:space="preserve">ideo probabiliùs lux illa
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            animalibus tribuitur, quàm lapillis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10808" xml:space="preserve">Eſto lapillis aliquibus lu-
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            cemà Naturâ datam non pauci exiſtiment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10809" xml:space="preserve">Sic in VI Prouincia
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            Suchuen pag.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10810" xml:space="preserve">67. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10811" xml:space="preserve">*Chu flumen Cu ciuitatem præterlabitur, unio-*
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            *num uulgo dicitur, quia noctu in eo lumina micantia collucent,*
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            *quæputantilli carbunculos eſſe, ſeu lapides illos pretioſos, quos Si-*
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            *næ Yeming uocant, hoc eſt noctilucos.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10812" xml:space="preserve">* Carbunculos enim noctu lu-
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            cere omnes ſcribunt, ſiue fuerint Lychnites, quoniam more flam-
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            marum lucernæ ſplendeant, ſiue Anthracites, in quibus veluti
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            ſcintillæ igneæ diſcurrere videantur, ſiue perfectum ruborem ob-
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            tineant, ex quo illis Rubinis factum eſt nomen, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10813" xml:space="preserve">in tenebris ra-
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            diantes dicuntur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10814" xml:space="preserve">quos tamen vix reperiri, omnes nouimus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10815" xml:space="preserve">Fidem
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            quidem non abrogo M.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10816" xml:space="preserve">Paulo Veneto admirabilem Rubini apud Re-
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            gem Orientalis Inſulæ Zeilan aſſeruati magnitudinem commemo-
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            ranti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10817" xml:space="preserve">quippe qui longitudine palmum æquaret, craſſitie huma-
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            num brachium, coruſcatione verò igneam flammam ſuperaret:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10818" xml:space="preserve">Mihi tamen vitio non vertatur, ſi dubius hæream: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10819" xml:space="preserve">vix enim ad-
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            duci poſſum, vt mihi perſuadeam tantam fuiſſe lapidis pretiofiſ-
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            ſimià Naturâ efformati magnitudinem, tamque claram lucem, vt
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            igneæ flammæ fulgorem vinceret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10820" xml:space="preserve">Niſi fortè fuerit lapis ille ita ex
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            arte effictus, vt Rubinum colore mentiretur, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10821" xml:space="preserve">de Phoſphororum
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            genere, lucem in tenebris oſtentaret, eaque ratione Barbari exte-
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            ris hominibus imponerent.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10823" xml:space="preserve">Grad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10824" xml:space="preserve">Aliquando me curioſitas vellicabat, vt ex perirer, an vera
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            ſint, quæ Alexius ſcribit, ad alliciendos in rete piſces oblato lu-
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            mine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10825" xml:space="preserve">Mugiles ſeu Capitones, quos Cephalos vulgariter dicimus,
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            à lumine allici, res eſt hìc Venetijs in æſtuario notiſſima: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10826" xml:space="preserve">de </s>
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