Monantheuil, Henri de, Aristotelis Mechanica, 1599
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                Ariſtotele, & alijs pro vtroque, vt hic, indifferenter legitur. </s>
                <s id="id.000403">Qualia
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                autem problemata in Mechanicis habeat tractanda explicat Ari­
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                ſtoteles, dicitque ea eſſe, quæ ſint conſentanea Phyſicis & Mathe­
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                maticis, vt quæ habeant ſubiectum petitum è Phyſicis. </s>
                <s id="id.000404">Machina­
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                rum enim materia lignum eſt vel ferrum & eiuſmodi corpora Phy­
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                ſica: attributum verò è figuris & terminis Mathematicis cuiuſmo­
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                di ſunt in Geometria lineæ, diametri, centra, circuli, & eiuſmodi,
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                è quibus machinæ conſtare & figuratæ eſſe, & vires ſuas accipere,
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                augere, diminuere, metiri oſtenduntur. </s>
                <s id="id.000405">Vnde Mechanice pars eſt
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                mathematicarum non aliter: quam Muſica, Optica, Aſtronomia,
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                quas Ariſtoteles dixit eſſe
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                ob ſubiecti ſcilicet, quod
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                tractant naturam Phyſicas: ſed ob
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                  <foreign lang="el">gra/mmikas</foreign>
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                id eſt lineares &
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                numerales demonſtrationes, quibus ipſum explicant, Mathemati­
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                cas. </s>
                <s id="id.000406">Cæterum exeo quod dicit Ariſtoteles problemata Mechanica
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                eſſe Phyſicis & Mathematicis conſentanea, ſub indicare videtur,
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                ne Mechanicus ante existimet machinas, quarum habuerit demon­
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                ſtrationem in vſum venire poſſe, ſuamque efficaciam ſortiri: niſi
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                materia Phyſica existat, quæ rem patiatur fieri. </s>
                <s id="id.000407">Quamuis enim
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                Geometer demonſtratione concludat, datam rectam lineam infinitè
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                diuiſibilem eſſe, nulla materia lineata apud phyſicos eſt, quæ non
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                continuata diuiſione tandem reducatur ad eam, quæ ſi amplius in­
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                telligatur diuidi, amittet formam lineæ Phyſicæ & viſibilis: ſic
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                licet apud Mechanicos multa demonſtrentur de motu in infinitum
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                augendo, quale eſt illud problema Archimedeum. </s>
                <s id="id.000408">Datum pondus
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                data potentia mouere. </s>
                <s id="id.000409">Ita tamen intelligenda ſunt, ne exiſtimemus
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                infinita hominis,
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                arte iuuetur, poteſtati ſubeſſe. </s>
                <s id="id.000410">Sunt enim
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                certi fines, vltra quos natura rerum ipſum progredi non patitur.
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                <s id="id.000411">Sunt præterea vitia materiæ quæ Geometra, aut Mechanicus de­
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                monſtrans non conſiderat: nec etiam obſtant quo minus quæ propo­
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                ſita ſunt, vera ſint in intellectu: Mechanicus igitur operans, priuſ­
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                quam operi ſe accingat, ne fruſtretur, conſiderare debet, an quod
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                proponitur effici poßit, habita ratione materiæ ex qua, aut per
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                ,
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                & circunſtantiarum præſertim temporis quod præſcribitur, & ſum­
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                ptuum quos facere oporteret. </s>
                <s id="id.000412">Hæc enim ſi abunde ſuppetant, nec ma­
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                teria omnino repugnet, nihil non fieri poterit.
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