Buonamici, Francesco, De motu libri X

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              horum euenta videbis. </s>
              <s>Ex hoc efficiebatur, vt apud illos ens & natura idem eſſet. </s>
              <s>Vnde Galenus
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              rationem reddens inſcriptionis libri de natura humana, docuit omnes veteres inſcribere
                <expan abbr="cõſueſſe">conſueſſe</expan>
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              ſuos libros de natura. </s>
              <s>Proinde naturalis erat prima philoſophia, ne dixerim quoque ſolam:
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                dò</expan>
              mathematicę, quia bonum conſectari non viderentur; è numero ſcientiarum expunctæ ſunt;
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              ſed poſteà cognitis aliis ſubſtantiis materiæ immunibus ex ſupremo gradu deiecta fuit, & phi­
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              loſophiæ primæ proximos honores occupauit. </s>
              <s>Quamobrem latius patet naturæ ſignificatum
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              quàm id quod in noſtra methodo concipitur & definitur, principium motus & quietis. </s>
              <s>idem
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              enim valet atque ens. </s>
              <s>Quapropter qui naturam in eo ſignificato ſpectat, multa quidem tractare
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              cogitur quę cancellos methodi noſtri tranſiliunt, quod certè non obſeruans Themiſtius, præſer­
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              tim, cùm paullò antè affirmaſſet Ariſtoteles, eos non agere de natura, quia motus initia ſuſtuliſ­
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              ſent, locum ita legebat. </s>
              <s>De natura quidem non; naturales autem quæſtiones, & tamen illud om­
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              nino falſum quęſtiones ab illis inductas eſſe naturales. </s>
              <s>Id quod etiam videtur perſpexiſſe Gale­
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              nus
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              a
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              & legiſſe contextum, quemadmodum nos approbauimus. </s>
              <s>Ob id igitur de natura diſſere­
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              batur à cunctis; ſed quæſtiones erant aliquando non naturales. </s>
              <s>Eiuſmodi fuerunt quas profeſsi
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              ſunt Parmenides, & Meliſſus, & alij nonnulli eiuſdem notę philoſophi. </s>
              <s>Sed antequam
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              noto ſententias, de philoſophorum ſectis aliqua generatim dicere conſtitui. </s>
              <s>Quamuis
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              hunc
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              locum, vt cęteros omnes Pererius doctiſsimus vberrimè
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              . </s>
              <s>tractarit; nec quiſquam
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              illius induſtriam diligentiamúe in hac tractatione conſequi poſsit; ſtudebimus tamen ea ſeligere
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              quę ad Ariſtotelem magis attinere cenſebimus, & ſi qua ſuccurrent quæ noſtro labore compara­
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              uimus, ea quoque nos in medio ponemus. </s>
              <s>Ergo philoſophorum ſectæ quæ tempore Ariſtotelis
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              vel floruerant, vel florere incęperant, variæ fuerunt, atque illæ quidem varia nomina ſortitæ, vel
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              ab eo qui inſtituerat, vt à Pythagora Pythagoręi, vel à genere vitæ, vt Cynici, quòd vitam canis
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              imitarentur; ab actione nonnulli, vt à deambulando Peripatetici. </s>
              <s>à patria quidem, vt Cyrenaici,
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              & Megarenſes, & à loco potiſsimum, velut Academici & Stoici à porticu. </s>
              <s>Sed ea princeps diſtri­
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              butio ſectarum quæ à loco
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              obtinuit in Ionicam & Italicam huic nos
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              ſubiicimus.
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              <s>Nec defuerunt qui nomen ex profeſsione ducerent, hinc quidam morales, alij dialectici dicti,
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              nonnulli Theologi, & illi phyſici qui motum pro principio ſtatuerent. </s>
              <s>Atque vt ab Italica exor­
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              diar quæ (niſi fallor) eadem eſt cum Pythagorica, auctor eius fuit Pythagoras Samius Pherecy­
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              dis Syri auditor qui cum Heſiodo numeratur in Theologis. </s>
              <s>fuit
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              primus qui animi immor­
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              talitatem profeſſus fuerit, & cùm apud veteres myſteria naturæ ſub fabulis traderentur; grauiter
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              & ſeriò philoſophari cœpit. </s>
              <s>Eius ergo auditor Pythagoras. </s>
              <s>Huius ſectatores de quibus meminit
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              Ariſtoteles, Empedocles, Epicharmus, Archytas Tarentinus, Alemęo Crotoniates, ſed hic floruit
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              ſub Pythagora iam ſeniore, Hippaſus Metapontinus. </s>
              <s>Eleaticæ dicitur auctor fuiſſe Thelauges
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              Pythagoræ filius; eius patroni fuerunt Xenophanes, Parmenides, Meliſſus, Zeno Eleates; cum eis
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              quoque Lycophronem numeremus; Leucippus, Democritus, & Heraclitus quorum ætate vixit
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              Hippocrates. </s>
              <s>Ionicæ princeps fuit Thales Mileſius: hic omnium primus naturalem
                <expan abbr="philoſophiã">philoſophiam</expan>
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              profeſſus eſt; ipſum ſequutus eſt Anaximander; huic ſucceſsit Anaximenes; hic auditorem ha­
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              buit Anaxagoram. </s>
              <s>is Archelaum docuit qui primus ex Ionia philoſophiam vexit Athenas, hunc
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              poſt audiuit Socrates. </s>
              <s>Sed ipſe rerum naturalium ſcrutatione poſthabita, ac nonnullis de defini­
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              tionis regulis explicatis ſe totum dedit officiis ciuilibus, & animos
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              bonis moribus infor­
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              mare conſtituit vtilia perſequens; ea verò quę nullius vſus eſſent, àc ſi ſupra hominis captum fo­
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              rent, omittens. </s>
              <s>A Socrate deſcendit Plato auctor ſectæ Academiæ, Antiſthenes Cynicæ, Ariſtip­
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              pus Cyrenaicæ cum quo recenſetur Eudoxus, à Platone fluxit Spereſippus qui ſeſe tenuit in Aca­
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              demia. </s>
              <s>Ariſtoteles, tametſi Platonis auditor, inſtituit ſectam Peripateticam valdè ab Academica
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              differentem. </s>
              <s>Quia verò huius philoſophi inſtitutionem ſequimur, neque ab re nos facturos eſſe
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              cenſemus, ſi de illius familia nonnulla ſubiungamus. </s>
              <s>Fertur verò
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              Theophraſto
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                <expan abbr="cõmiſiſſe">commiſiſſe</expan>
              , hic verò eandem methodum ſeruans quam inſtituit Ariſtoteles, ſcripſit hiſtoriam plan­
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              tarum. </s>
              <s>Poſt Theophraſtum Eudemus tenuiſſe legitur. </s>
              <s>atque hactenus Ariſtotelis decreta retenta
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              ſunt. </s>
              <s>Nam ſtrato Lampſacenus, quanquam Theophraſti diſcipulus, multa
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              , vnde puri
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              illi Peripati fontes conturbati fuerunt, prętereo complures alios quorum nulla extat hodie nota
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              apud noſtros
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              audacia, ſeu negligentia veriſimile eſt, diſciplinam illam Ariſtotelicam fuiſſe
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              fędatam. </s>
              <s>Mox grauiſsimus caſus perculit non modo profeſſores, verùm etiam libros occultauit,
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              vt demum L. Syllæ beneficio libri Ariſtotelici poſt aliquot ſæcula quaſi reuixerint; eos habuit
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              M. Varro; tractauit etiam M. Tullius. </s>
              <s>Iterum afflicta eſt illa
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              ratio, donec à Soſigene
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              Byzantij fuit propè à mortuis excitata. </s>
              <s>Sed eius extat ſola memoria, ab
                <expan abbr="Alexãdro">Alexandro</expan>
              illius diſcipulo
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              propagata
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              nulla. </s>
              <s>Hinc ſucceſsit Alexander, cuius iudicium ita pręſtans
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              eſt, vt
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              nemo Ariſtotelicus exiſtimaretur, qui non eſſet Alexandręus. </s>
              <s>ignoratur
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              hic'ne an pręceptor
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              eius Soſigenes
                <foreign lang="grc">ὑπομνημαστησοῦ</foreign>
              , ideſt
                <expan abbr="cõmentatoris">commentatoris</expan>
              nomine decoratus eſſet. </s>
              <s>Ab Alexandro The­
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              miſtius emanauit,
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              Metaphraſten maiores noſtri vocarunt. </s>
              <s>Hinc Michaël Epheſius vſque ad </s>
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