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            lius intelligatur, non plane ſupervacaneum puto.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9459" xml:space="preserve">Galilæus, Vir vaſti ingenii, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9460" xml:space="preserve">perſpicientia in omnia penetrante
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            pollens, eaque, quæpræterviſa ab aliis in Philoſophia erant, detegens;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9461" xml:space="preserve">illico ad hanc Mechanicæ partem, quæ Corporum Firmitatem ſpectat,
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            animum applicuit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9462" xml:space="preserve">Geometrice Leges Cohærentiæ reſpectivæ ex
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            ſuppoſita Abſoluta dare anniſus fuit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9463" xml:space="preserve">plurimaque abſtruſa phænomena
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9464" xml:space="preserve">abſcondita Problemata feliciter reſolvit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9465" xml:space="preserve">verum hinc inde aliquid
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            humani paſſus fuit, veluti cum Cohærentiam reſpectivam ſubduplam
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            Abſolutæ ponit, vel Solidum parabolicum utrimque fultum æqualis
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            ubique reſiſtentiæ pronunciat, aut ubi excavatorum corporum fir-
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            mitates cum ſolidis æque magnis comparat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9466" xml:space="preserve">facile profecto in re
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            ardua vacillat ſubinde intellectus, præcipue quando quis primus
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            Scientiam novam, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9467" xml:space="preserve">antea inauditam, condit, glaciemque frangit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9468" xml:space="preserve">Sed
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            hi lapſus facillime condonabuntur ab omnibus æquis rerum arbitris,
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            quia Natura ſæpe profunde obvelat in reſiſtentiarum doctrina ve-
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            ctium & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9469" xml:space="preserve">fulcrorum ſitus, momentorum rationes, potentiarum di-
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            rectiones; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9470" xml:space="preserve">quibus in inextricabilem Labyrinthum Eruditos conjicit: </s>
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            Idcirco elegantiſſime Virorum Magnorum errores excuſat in nego-
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            tiis ejuſmodi intricatiſſimis eloquentiſſimus Fontenellus in L’Hiſt. </s>
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            de L’Acad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9473" xml:space="preserve">Roy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9474" xml:space="preserve">A°. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9475" xml:space="preserve">1707. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9476" xml:space="preserve">Sed quodcunque horum fuerit, id fa-
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            mæ Galilæi nihil detrimenti afferet, agnoſcere enim ſemper tene-
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            buntur mortales, Galilæum eſſe hujus doctrinæ inventorem; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9477" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9478" xml:space="preserve">qui
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            ipſe ſubtilia cum explicuit, ad ulteriora viam aperuit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9479" xml:space="preserve">Inventor au-
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            tem vere primus eſt, nam id, quod Ariſtoteles Mechanicis quæ-
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            ſtionibus inſeruit, indagans, Quare Ligna, quo longiora, eo de-
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            biliora ſint? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9480" xml:space="preserve">exigui eſt momenti, nec Scientiæ novæ initium, quem-
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            admodum nec ea, quæ Guevara doctiſſimis ſuis commentariis huic
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            Ariſtotelis loco addidit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9482" xml:space="preserve">Galilæum ſecutus fuit Blondellus, qui Anno 1661 Epiſtolam edi-
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            dit, in quâ famoſam Galilæi propoſitionem diſcuſſit, oſtendens So-
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            lidum non Parabolicum, ſed Ellipticum requiri, ut utrimque ful-
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            cris impoſitum ubivis æqualis reſiſtentiæ habeatur, memoratque ſi-
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            mul ſe Volumen de Reſiſtentia ſolidorum compoſuiſſe, cui titulum
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            Galilæi promoti præfixit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9483" xml:space="preserve">Epiſtola prior deprehenditur quoque in
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            Libro, Regiis typis Anno 1676 Pariſiis edito, cui titulus, Recueil
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            de pluſieurs Traitez de Mathematique.</s>
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