Borro, Girolamo, De motu gravium et levium, 1575

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                tantum relatione quadam, quod cælum rotundum ſit, & in
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                abſoluti orbis ſpeciem ita efformatum, vt nihil inueniri possit
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                aut rotundius, aut æque rotundum, & propterea nullam con
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                trariam partium poſitionem habeat: ideo hæc locorum inter­
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                ualla, & haſce locorum rationes ſat non eſſe cenſuit, ad gra­
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                uium, & leuium definitiones constituendas; idipſum Platoni
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                adſcripſit Alcinous in libro, cui titulus eſt de dogmate Plato­
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                nis capite vigeſimo: leuia ergo Plato affirmauit, quæ (vt ipſe
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                loquitur) ex paucioribus triangulis
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                ; grauia, quæ
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                quaſi pluribus ex triangulis fiunt, perinde ac ſi per partes
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                eiuſdem generis, triangulos intelligat, nullum enim corpus,
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                apud Platonem in Timæo inuenitur, quin illud ex figuris
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                concretum ſit. </s>
                <s id="s.000310">Hinc Plato ſequi putat prima corpora ex pri
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                mis figuris eſſe concreta, ſed prima omnium figurarum est
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                circularis, quæ rotundo cælo, quod ad volubilitatem rotun­
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                datum est, à natura tribuitur; de quo nobis est alio loco di­
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                ſputatum. </s>
                <s id="s.000311">Secunda figura est plana; & inter planas, pri­
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                ma est triangula, quæ primis illis corporibus adſcribitur; quæ
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                recto motu cientur: nec omnes trianguli ſunt eodem loco
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                habendi, cum illi ſint natura priores, qui rectum angu­
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                lum habent, vt ſunt lſoſcheles, & Scalenus; at rectus
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                angulus natura præcedit acutum, atque obtuſum: rectus
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                etiam vnius naturam optimè redolet, cum nulla ratione va­
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                riari queat: acutus autem, & obtuſus multis modis va­
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                rientur; propter has omnes cauſas lſoſchelem, & Scale­
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                num Plato elegit, vt ex illis, quas planas primas figu­
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                ras cenſuit, prima elementorum corpora componeret, mo­
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                do Platonis, & non Timæi Pythagorici ſit illa ſententia,
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                quæ in Timæo ſcribitur, & ex libro de vniuerſitate Ti­
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                mæi ad verbum transfertur: cuiuſcumque tamen ſit: feren-
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