Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            matis, ex quo Chaldæi ſuas obſervationes inſtituerunt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20596" xml:space="preserve">Jam
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            verò ſi etiam reliquorum Planetarum revolutiones cum his
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            comparemus, manifeſtum eſt nullum unquam fuiſſe Thema
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            prorſus ſimile Themati infantis Venetiis nati hoc anno, horâ
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            12. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20597" xml:space="preserve">Sole exiſtente in tertio gradu Leonis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20598" xml:space="preserve">Cum itaque nulla,
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            ſidera ſint otioſa, eorumque efficacitas aut infirmetur, aut
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            roboretur, pro ratione poſitionis, eventa autem non uni tan-
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            tum aut alteri Planetæ tribuenda ſint, ſed omnium comple-
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            xioni, ſe enim invicem temperant, nondum ſatis obſervari
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            potuerunt, immò (audacter, nec temerè, dico) nunquam
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            poterunt, eventa, quibus innitantur artis illius præ-
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            cepta.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s20600" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20601" xml:space="preserve">Si qua eſſe poſſit ars non fallax prædicendi futura ex
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            aſtris, hæc ſi Aſtronomiæ præſidio deſtituatur, utique nulla
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            fuerit, niſi enim aſtrorum motus cognitus fuerit, neque ſin-
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            gulorum poſitio, multo minùs efficientia, definiri poteſt.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s20602" xml:space="preserve">Aſtronomiam igitur antiquiorem Aſtrologiâ eſſe oportet. </s>
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            Quàm tenuis autem & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20604" xml:space="preserve">rudis fuerit cœleſtium motuum notitia
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            antè Ptolemei tempora, hoc manifeſtò docet, quod ſi quis
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            ex conſtitutis à Ptolemeo Solis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20605" xml:space="preserve">Lunæ motibus futuram,
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            eclipſim prædicere voluerit, inſigniter à veritate aberrâſſe de-
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            prehendetur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20606" xml:space="preserve">Cum itaque Mathematici Ptolemeo antiquio-
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            res, quò majore ab hujus ætate diſtabant intervallo, eò ru-
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            diores fuerint, minuſque perſpectos habuerint Planetarum
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            motûs, adeòque in erigendo naſcentis infantis Themate, cum
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            nequirent tunc aſtra ſingula obſervare, quippe quæ aut Solis
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            luce obruebantur, aut nubibus offuſis celabantur, aut infrà
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            Horizontem depreſſa occultabantur, ad calculos, rationeſ-
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            que ineundas & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20607" xml:space="preserve">ſubducendas confugere coacti fuerint, mani-
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            feſtum eſt Planetas tunc ibi non fuiſſe, ubi eis locum in The-
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            mate aſſignabant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20608" xml:space="preserve">ac proinde quantalibet curioſitate eventûs
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            ſingulorum hominum notarent, aliis, ſed ignotis, aſtrorum
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            configurationibus tribuendi erant, ſi in eos efficacitatem exer-
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            cere poterant ſidera. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20609" xml:space="preserve">Ad hæc ſi in Zodiaci ſignis virtutem ali-
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            quam agnoſcebant, quæ Planetæ vim temperaret, hanc ip-
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            ſis ſideribus fixis, quę ſigno nomen fecere, ineſſe non dubi-
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            tabant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20610" xml:space="preserve">antè Hipparchum autem nemo ſuſpicatus eſt ſtellis
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            fixis motum convenire juxtà ſeriem Signorum, ideò poſt ali-
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            quot ſæcula cum mutaverint locum in Zodiaco, quem Ra-
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            tionalem vocant, antiquę illę definitiones deſumptæ ex tunc
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            obſervatis eventis non ampliùs valent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20611" xml:space="preserve">Quare eadem </s>
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