Gassendi, Pierre, De motu impresso a motore translato epistulae duae, 1642

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              dum idem corpus fertur deorſùm; quoniam videmus
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              parietem, pauimentum, & alia ſic reſiſtere, vt non
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              proptereà vim vllam faciant, impetumve corporibus
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              incurrentibus imprimant. </s>
              <s id="id.000419">Sed vt hoc eſt verùm dè
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              rebus immotis, quæque diſtracta in ſe non redeunt,
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              neque rurſùs coëunt; ita dici planè non poteſt de iis,
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              quæ aut mouentur, aut à ſuo ſitu deductæ illum
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              repetunt. </s>
              <s id="id.000420">Abduc certè arboris ramum, ille non mo­
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              dò tibi reſiſtet, ſed poſtea quoque cùm vehementia
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              ſitum ſuum ita repetet, vt ſi quidpiam occurrerit,
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              impetu magno illud propellat; qua ratione ſit ſagit­
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              tarum jactus. </s>
              <s id="id.000421">Diffinde quoque ramum in duas par­
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              teis, quæ in trunco tamen cohæreant; eæ partes non
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              ſolùm diducenti reſiſtent, ſed reducent prætereà ſe­
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              ſe eâ vehementiâ, eóque impetu, cui ne vires qui­
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              dem Milonis ſint pares. </s>
              <s id="id.000422">Itaque ipſe quoque aër,
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              tametſi aliàs immotus ſit, ita tamen à corpore præ­
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              teruadente diſtrahi poteſt, vt partes diſtractæ ma­
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              gna cum vehementia ſeſe inuicem repetant, locum­
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              que à corpore occupatum, & iam iam relictum de­
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              nuò repleant, ſicque corpus ipſum non ſine facto
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              impetu vlteriùs propellant. </s>
              <s id="id.000423">Et res quidem videretur
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              ſide propè deſtitui; ſed experimenta tot ſunt, ac ea
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              præſertìm, quæ circa vacuum impediendum com­
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              memorantur, vt cùm te latere non poſſint, comme­
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              morare ſuperfluum ſit. </s>
              <s id="id.000424">Velim ſolùm, ne hæreas,
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              quomodò res adeò fluxa, ac eſt aër; tantam vim
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              propellendi habeat; cogites & ventorum vim, qua
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              flagellantur arbores, qua transſeruntur nauigia, qua
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              euertuntur ædificia, qua ſuſque deque mare moue-</s>
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