Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            terram, ſed carnem, ſcio me aliquando legiſſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16013" xml:space="preserve">ſit autem penes
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            authorem fides. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16014" xml:space="preserve">Similiter igitur potuit fulmen aliquando
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            dolium diſſipare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16015" xml:space="preserve">vino coagulum immiſcere, vi cujus vinum
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            obrigeret, aliquando verò intacto dolio vinum in vapores ſolve-
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            re: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16016" xml:space="preserve">Sic in Aquâ Regiâ aurum argento miſtum ſolvitur intacto
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            argento, contrà autem in Aquà Forti communi argentum ſol-
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            vitur auro integro manente.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s16018" xml:space="preserve">Dand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16019" xml:space="preserve">Utique fulmen plures naturas igneas ardoris capaces
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            complectitur, ſed potiſſimum ſulphur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16020" xml:space="preserve">cum enim aliquando
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            mihi aliiſque colloquentibus clariſſimum fulgur oculos per-
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            ſtrinxiſſet, manifeſto odore ſulphureo conclave repletum eſt,
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            apertiſque feneſtris multò acriorem ſenſimus odorem ex ful-
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            mine, quod haud procul deciderat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16021" xml:space="preserve">adeò ut nemini relictus
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            fuerit locus dubitandi, utrùm in fulmen accendatur ſulphur,
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            cujus ardore igneo & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16022" xml:space="preserve">acri inficiuntur corpora fulmine icta; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16023" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
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            idcirco ſunt qui putent cum Plutarcho nuper laudato, canes,
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            avéſque abſtinere cadaveribus fulmine percuſſorum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16025" xml:space="preserve">Niſi fortè
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            dicendum ſit etiam Arſenicum additum, quod pariter citò
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            ignem concipit & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16026" xml:space="preserve">inflammatur, flammam reddens odoris ſul-
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            phurei, ſed ſulphure deterioris, atque ſpiritibus animalibus
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            cerebri valde infeſti: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16027" xml:space="preserve">eſt enim Arſenicum ſuccus ſulphureus,
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            conjunctum habens aliquid lithargyri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16028" xml:space="preserve">ſalis ſpiritum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16029" xml:space="preserve">Hanc
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            arſenicalem particulam complexum fuiſſe puto fulmen, quod
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            ante aliquot annos mihi amicum hominem eripuit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16030" xml:space="preserve">cum enim
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            humerum cute denudaſſet, pars icta putreſcere cœpit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16031" xml:space="preserve">ſanguis
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            venenum concepit, quo tertiâ die extinctus eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16032" xml:space="preserve">Bitumineam
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            pariter materiam fulmini admiſceri hinc arguere poſſumus,
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            quòd in Campo Sennaar, qui bitumine abundat, frequentiſſima
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            fulmina cadere dicuntur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16033" xml:space="preserve">ſicut & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16034" xml:space="preserve">in Inſulâ Lemno, propter
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            quod Lemnius dictus eſt Vulcanus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16035" xml:space="preserve">è Cœlo cecidiſſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16036" xml:space="preserve">Naph-
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            tha autem videtur bituminis liquidi ſpiritus tam facilè inflam-
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            mabilis, ut non ſolùm ignem ad ſe rapiat, ſed etiam aliquando
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            Solis ardore accendi dicatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16037" xml:space="preserve">Hoc verò omni bitumini com-
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            mune eſt, ut, conceptâ flammâ, rapidè ardeat, ſed effusâ aquâ
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            non extinguatur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16038" xml:space="preserve">propterea non mirum fulminis ignem à nubis
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            pluviâ non lædi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16039" xml:space="preserve">Porrò cum oleum ex cerâ deſtillatum ma-
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            gnam cum Naphthâ affinitatem habeat, tàm ratione facilis
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            accenſionis, quàm penetrationis, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16040" xml:space="preserve">ab Apibus ceram cum melle
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            colligi ex rore floribus adhærente perſpicuum habeamus, hujuſ-
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            modi tenuiſſimas particulas facilè inflammabiles cum aëre,
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            vaporibus, aliiſque expirationibus commiſceri negare non </s>
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