Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            ex his, quos hactenusnovimus, Cometis nullius tanta cenſenda
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            eſt fuiſſe à Telluris centro diſtantia, ut ad eam nequiverit etiam
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            ſupra Lunam rapi, quo dictum eſt modo, elementaris materia;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19366" xml:space="preserve">quæ deinde diſſoluto Cometâ in propriam regionem ſibi relicta
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19367" xml:space="preserve">libera remigret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19368" xml:space="preserve">Circumſeptum autem ſidereis halitibus
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            non omninò raris ignem diutiùs permanere poſſe, ſicut quando
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            prunæ ſunt cineribus conſepultæ, non eſt creditu difficile, ma-
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            ximè ſi ab extimis ad interiores partes paulatim ſerpat accenſio
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            in materiá non ſolubili unico impetu, quemadmodum de car-
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            bonibus contritis, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19369" xml:space="preserve">cum ceruſsâ ruditer commiſtis paulò ante
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            commemorabas, Dandule; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19370" xml:space="preserve">multo magis ſi partium, tempe-
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            ratione benè compactus ſit nucleus ardens.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s19372" xml:space="preserve">Grad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19373" xml:space="preserve">Sitùm ex ſidereis, tùm ex terrenis expirationibus con-
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            flatus dicatur Cometes, quibus-nam calamitates illum ſubſe-
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            quentes tribuendæ erunt? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19374" xml:space="preserve">nunquam enim ſpectatus terris im-
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            pune Cometes, nunquam futilibus excanduit ignibus æther:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s19375" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19376" xml:space="preserve">ad poſteritatis memoriam hiſtoricorum monimentis com-
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            mendatæ ſunt ſiccitates, ſterilitates, fames, procellæ, lues,
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            peſtilentiæ, locuſtæ vaſtitatem agris inferentes, Principum
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            mortes, quas præceſſerunt timendæ Cometarum faces. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19377" xml:space="preserve">Præte-
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            reunda quippe ſunt, tanquam delirantium ſomnia, cætera,
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            quæ addunt, inſignes proditiones, hoſtium irruptiones, exerci-
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            tuum clades, urbium everſiones, regnorum mutationes, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19378" xml:space="preserve">ſi
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            quæ ſunt his ſimiles calamitates, quæ ex humanæ libertatis
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            arbitrio pendent, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19379" xml:space="preserve">extrà Cometarum vim ſunt poſitæ: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19380" xml:space="preserve">ideò
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19381" xml:space="preserve">Tacitus lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19382" xml:space="preserve">14. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19383" xml:space="preserve">Annalium, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19384" xml:space="preserve">Suetonius in Nerone cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19385" xml:space="preserve">3ó. </s>
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            Sapienter locuti vulgarem (hoc eſt inanem) opinionem dixere: </s>
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            Tacitus quidem poſt commemorata prodigia Coſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19388" xml:space="preserve">Nerone IV. </s>
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19390" xml:space="preserve">Cornelio Coſſo vifa, ait, *Sidus effulſit, de quo vulgi opinio eſt,*
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            *tanquam mutationem regnis portendat:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19391" xml:space="preserve">* Suetonìus verò ſcribit,
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            *Stella, Crinita, quæ ſummis poteſtatibus exitium portendere vulgo*
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            *putatur, per continuas noctes oriri cœperat.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19392" xml:space="preserve">* Sicut neque quæren-
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            dum, quibus nam regionibus ærumnas pręnuntiet Cometa; </s>
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            rem enim maximè incertam ad leges voluntarias revocare
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            ridiculum eſt, perinde atque ſi, quam in plagam Obverſa ſit
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            Cometę cauda, regionibus omnibus ſecundùm eandem dire-
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            ctionem in terrâ poſitis, aut intrà eoſdem Parallelos, quos Co-
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            meta percurrit, conſtitutis, timendum eſſet, aut illis urbibus
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            periculum immineret, quibus dominari dicitur Zodiaci ſignum,
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            in quo Cometa ortum habuit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19394" xml:space="preserve">quandoquidem cum hiſce, ſimi-
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            libuſque predictionum legibus eventus, quos hiſtorie </s>
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