Gassendi, Pierre, De motu impresso a motore translato epistulae duae, 1642

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              proinde eſt, quòd condones, ſi vt obſcurè ſolùm
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              conijcio, ita confuſè ſolùm balbutiam? </s>
              <s id="id.000481">ſi nihil tan­
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              quam ratum, exploratúmque, & de quo dubitare
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              non liceat, diuendam, neque velim vnquam pręju­
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              dicium factum perſcrutantibus, excogitantibuſque
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              meliora? </s>
              <s id="id.000482">Nullum non verſo lapidem, vt experiar, ſi
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              fortè quidpiam occurrat veriſimile; & cum ingenuè
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              profitear eſſe vbique anguſtias, videor mihi eſſe ex­
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              cuſatione non indignus, dum recantare ſemper pa­
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              ratus, illud interim profero, quod videatur præ
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              cæteris ſimilitudinem habere cum vero. </s>
              <s id="id.000483">In hoc
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              negotio, cum videatur eſſe ſatis perſpicuum, non
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              poſſe vnum corpus attrahere aliud, niſi tranſmittat
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              aliquid, quo illud ad ſe pertrahat; ecquis eſt tamen
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              adeo ſolers, qui conijciat, aut explicet, cuiuſmodi
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              id ſit, quod magnes, quaſi organum, vt ferrum ad ſe
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              accerſat, tranſmittit? </s>
              <s id="id.000484">Aſſerere fortè poſſemus, id
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              eſſe quaſi ſpeciem ſenſibilis rei, qua animal pellicitur;
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              at durum fortè nimis eſſet animam quandam cum
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              Thalete, ſiue in magnete ſiue in ferro ponere Cùm
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              verò poni ſaltem id debeat vt continuatum aliquid ex
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              magnete in ferrum vſque; quònam modo habere
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              poteſt harpagonis vim, ſi ex corpuſculis diſſociatis
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              conſtat? </s>
              <s id="id.000485">ſi, cum emittitur, non vno extremo tene­
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              tur, ſed dimittitur? </s>
              <s id="id.000486">ſi facta extremi alterius in anſu­
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              las ferri injectione, non ſubinde reducitur, ſed con­
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              tinenter impellitur & complura ſimilia non exiguæ
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              difficultatis? </s>
              <s id="id.000487">Et admitte concurſus, complexuſque
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              corpuſculorum, cum Empedocle; adhibe vacui inter­
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              ceptionem cum Democrito, fugam cum Platone, </s>
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