Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 1: Opera mechanica

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            quæ ſui evolutione alias curvas generant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s768" xml:space="preserve">Unde comparatio in-
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            ter ſe longitudinis curvarum cum rectis naſcitur, quam ulterius
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            etiam quam præſens neceſſitas poſtulabat proſecutus ſum, pro-
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            pter theoriæ, ut mihi viſum eſt, elegantiam & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s769" xml:space="preserve">novitatem.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s771" xml:space="preserve">Cæterùm ad explicandam Penduli Compoſiti naturam,
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            cujus utilitatem in conſtructione horum automatôn demon-
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            ſtro, adjungenda fuit Centrorum Oſcillationis contemplatio,
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            à pluribus quidem, ſed minus feliciter, hactenus tentata;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s772" xml:space="preserve">in qua theoremata complura animadverſione, ni fallor, di-
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            gna reperientur, ad figuras lineares, planas, ſolidasque per-
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            tinentia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s773" xml:space="preserve">Ante hæc omnia vero præmittitur ipſa horologii
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            mechanica conſtructio, pendulique applicatio, eâ formâ quæ
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            ad uſus aſtronomicos aptiſſima reperta eſt, ad cujus inſtar re-
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            liquæ omnes, mutatis quæ opus eſt, facile ordinari poſ-
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            ſint.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s775" xml:space="preserve">Quia vero contigit egregio hujus inventi ſucceſſu, quod
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            fieri plerumque ſolet, quodque futurum prædixeram, ut
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            plures ſeſe ejus auctores eſſe cuperent, aut ſi non ſibi ipſis,
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            ſuæ tamen nationis alicui potius quàm nobis eum honorem
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            tribui vellent, iniquis eorum conatibus tandem aliquando
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            occurrendum hic arbitror. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s776" xml:space="preserve">Nec ſanè aliud fere opponere iis
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            neceſſe fuerit præterquam id unum, nempe ante annos ſex-
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            decim, cum nec dicto nec ſcripto cujusquam de horologiis
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            hujusmodi mentio facta eſſet, aut rumor ullus omnino ferre-
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            tur (loquor autem de penduli ſimplicis uſu ad horologia
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            translato, nam de Cycloidis additione nemo credo contro-
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            verſiam movebit) conſtructionem eorum propria meditatio-
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            ne me adinveniſſe & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s777" xml:space="preserve">perficiendam curaſſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s778" xml:space="preserve">In ſequenti anno,
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            qui nempe hujus ſæculi quinquageſimus octavus fuit, </s>
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