Heron <Alexandrinus>, [Libro degli artifizii spiritali over di fiato]

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              <s id="s000012"> Al lettore
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              <s id="s000013">Essendo io certo che la presente opera
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              sara ve=
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              duta se non da intelletti nobili e gentili, che oltre
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              al contentarsi di quel che altri può dare conosce=
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              ranno anco molto piu di quel che troveranno scr=
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              itto, ho voluto lasciare nella loro imaginatione
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              quanto travaglio m' ha ' dato il trovar differenza
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              tra l' certo Greco di Vaticano e ' la tradottion
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              Latina dell'
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              Comandino, dal quale non di
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              meno ho ' variato in pochi luoghi dove quel
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              testo e ' l' esperienza me ne mostrava la strada
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              et ho ben aggiunto il quarto modo di far bevere
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              gli animali che non era nel Comandino, et oltra
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              l' haver variate molte figure v' ho ' porto anco
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              negli organi le varietà de
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              , le quali non
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              mi parendo a ' bastanza
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              far che se ne resti
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              satisfatto, v' ho ' descritto e ' disegnato nell' ultimo
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              l' organo di Tivoli stimandolo cosa molto pro=
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              portionata ' a ' questo libro ond' hebbe la prima
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              origine,</s>
              <s id="s000014"> Ne m' è parso dilatarmi in lodare e '
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              descrivere minutamente le qualità e ' utilità
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              del libro o dell' autor suo,
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              appresso i buon
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              ingegni sarebben cose soverchie e ' basta solo
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                del</foreign>
              il libro a ' far giudicare Herone Alessan=
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              drino degno discepolo di Ctesibio mecanico tan=
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              to famoso, e ' senza dirne altro dal proemio suo
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              si conosce che scrisse nel tempo che la dottrina
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          </chap>
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