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            turaſque & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9319" xml:space="preserve">generandi vias contemplaremur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9320" xml:space="preserve">in quibus in-
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            finita quædam varietas ac mirabilia multa inſunt, quæ a-
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            pud naturæ ſcriptores celebrantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9321" xml:space="preserve">Imo in ipſis inſectis
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            quis non miratur apium cellulas hexagonas, aranearum te-
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            las; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9322" xml:space="preserve">tum bombycum involucra, ex quibus incredibili in-
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            duſtria delicatiſſimam veſtem conficimus, eaque copiâ ut
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            naves totæ ea onerentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9323" xml:space="preserve">Atque hæc quidem de herbarum
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            animantiumque genere, quatenus homini proſunt, ſumma-
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            tim retuliſſe ſufficiat.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9325" xml:space="preserve">Cogitetur jam porro quanta ſit ejus ſolertia in reperien-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0428-01" xlink:href="note-0428-01a" xml:space="preserve">Ex Metallis,</note>
            dis, effodiendis, explorandis metallis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9326" xml:space="preserve">itemque in funden-
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            dis, repurgandis, miſcendis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9327" xml:space="preserve">Quanta in tenuandis auri
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            laminis, aut hydrargyro reſolvendis, ut parvo impendio,
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            quæcunque voluerimus, auri ſplendorem coloremque in-
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            duant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9328" xml:space="preserve">Quam mira ac multiplex ſit ferri utilitas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9329" xml:space="preserve">quam
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            quæ ignorarunt nationes, eæ omnium ferè mechanicarum
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            artium rudes vixerunt, proque armis, tantum arcus, cla-
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            vas, ſudeſque habuerunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9330" xml:space="preserve">Nos vero & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9331" xml:space="preserve">pulverem ex ſul-
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            phure & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9332" xml:space="preserve">nitro miſtum habemus, varioſque ejus uſus, qui
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            an plus juvet an noceat merito dubitari poteſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9333" xml:space="preserve">Videba-
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            tur enim mira ejus vi, ſimulque artificioſa muniendorum
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            oppidorum arte, certius præſidium inventum eſſe, quam
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            priſcis temporibus fuerit, adverſus hoſtiles impetus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9334" xml:space="preserve">ſed
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9335" xml:space="preserve">horum ex eo ſimul violentiam creviſſe videmus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9336" xml:space="preserve">for-
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            titudini viribuſque in præliis multo minus nunc locum eſ-
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            ſe quam tunc fuerit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9337" xml:space="preserve">Quod enim olim Imperator Græ-
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            cus dixiſſe fertur, Periiſſe Virtutem cum Catapultarum, ac
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            Baliſtarum inventa exorirentur, idem nunc majori jure que-
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            ri poſſumus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9338" xml:space="preserve">ac maxime Bombis, quos vocant, repertis;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9339" xml:space="preserve">quos non mœnibus, nec ſitu oppida arceſve repellere
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            poſſunt, ſed quamvis validæ disjiciuntur, ac ſolo æquan-
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            tur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9340" xml:space="preserve">Ut, vel ob hoc unum, melius homines ejus pulve-
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            ris invento carituros fuiſſe dicendum ſit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9341" xml:space="preserve">Nec tamen pro-
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            pterea prætereundum fuit in commemorandis noſtræ Tel-
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            luris repertis, cum veriſimile ſit, etiam in cæteris Planetis,
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            noxia artificia quædam cum bonis emerſiſſe.</s>
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