Casati, Paolo, Terra machinis mota : dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae physicae hydrostaticae

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              natione opus habuiſſet Archimedes, intelli­
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              gamus. </s>
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              Merſ.
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              <s> Principio, quoniam id ex me pla­
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              cet audire, grauitatem ex mole inueſtigan­
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              dam intelligens, quotquot apud authores
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              extabant de terræ magnitudine opiniones,
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              cœpi ad examen reuocare, vt eas, quæ pro­
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              babili alicui coniecturæ & rationi niterentur,
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              à temerè conſtitutis, ſecernerem. </s>
              <s>Cum ve­
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              rò in omnibus
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              deſidera­
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              rem, & in ſingulis labem aliquam mihi vi­
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              derer deprehendere, vulgatiſſimæ demùm̨
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              opinioni acquieſcendum cenſui, quæ 60 mil­
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              liaria Italica mediocria ſingulis gradibus tri­
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              buit; vt à veritate minimùm recederem, vel
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              ſaltem eos ſolùm haberem aduerſarios, qui
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              nimio in antiquitatem ſtudio feruntur.
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              S
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              cru­
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              pulus tamen, fateor, animum quantumuis
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              diſſimulantem ſtimulabat, quoties milliaria
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              huiuſmodi minoribus menſuris diſtinguere
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              atque ad pedes reuocare opus erat; quem̨
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              enim potiſsimùm pedem vſurparem, incer­
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              tus hærebam; cùm pro diuerſa aſſumpti pe­
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              dis longitudine moles tota terreni globi alia
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              atquè alia deprehenderetur, diſcrimine non
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              contemnendo. </s>
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              <s>Perpendens itaque corporum vmbras ideo
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              ſemper in oppoſitam Soli plagam proijci, </s>
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