Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            eſt, quod Soli meridiano expoſitum umbram non projiciat;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s21144" xml:space="preserve">quò autem craſſiora ſunt vitra, minus lucis tranſmittunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21145" xml:space="preserve">Ideò
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            ſuprà faciem abyſſi tenebræ erant, quas Empyrei lux non diſ-
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            cuteret, quemadmodum neque nobis aſpectabilem ſe præbet
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            per aquas cœleſtes & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21146" xml:space="preserve">Firmamentum, quibus neganda non eſt
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            perſpicuitas. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21147" xml:space="preserve">Quapropter Empyreo ab ipsâ mundi primâ con-
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            ſtitutione ſuam lucem concedendam puto, antequam lux iſta
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            fieret, quæ tenebras abyſſum involuentes diſpulit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s21149" xml:space="preserve">Maur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21150" xml:space="preserve">Suam lucem rectè dixiſti, quæ videlicet ſuo proprio & </s>
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            certo vocabulo Claritas Dei meritò appellatur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21152" xml:space="preserve">Non quidem,
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            quòd ſpirituale aliquid aut ſupernaturale, ut ajunt, illa ſit Di-
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            vinæ Naturæ conveniens, Neque enim, ut loquitur S. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21153" xml:space="preserve">Greg. </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s21155" xml:space="preserve">18.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s21156" xml:space="preserve">Moral. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21157" xml:space="preserve">cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21158" xml:space="preserve">28. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21159" xml:space="preserve">illi ſimplici & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21160" xml:space="preserve">incommut abili eſſentiæ aliud eſt clari-
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            tas, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21161" xml:space="preserve">aliud Natura; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21162" xml:space="preserve">ſed ipſa ei Natura, ſua claritas, ipſa claritas
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            natura eſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21163" xml:space="preserve">ſed quòd ſumma eſt & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21164" xml:space="preserve">præclariſſima lux; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21165" xml:space="preserve">ſic enim
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21166" xml:space="preserve">altiſſimi montes dicuntur Montes Dei, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21167" xml:space="preserve">proceras cedros
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            vocat propheta Cedros Dei. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21168" xml:space="preserve">Cæterùm lux illa ea eſt, quæ ocu-
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            lis cerni queat corporeis Beatorum hominum, licèt tantæ effi-
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            cacitatis, ut in illâ omnis mortalis oculus, ferre non valens,
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            caligaret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21169" xml:space="preserve">Non deerunt, quibus otium ſit diſputandi, an lux
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            Empyrea atque hæc noſtra ſint ſpecie diſpares, an verò prorſus
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            ſimilis naturæ, ita ut hoc ſolùm differant, quod illa acrior ſit,
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            hæc remiſſior. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21170" xml:space="preserve">At nobis parum utilis contingat hæc diſputatio,
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            quippe quibus, cum de Ignis luce diſſereremus, abſurda non
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            videbatur multiplex lucis ſpecies: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21171" xml:space="preserve">quemadmodum enim plures
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            igniculorum naturas agnoſcimus in Salibus, Sulphuribus,
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            atque Spiritibus, quibus diverſa facultas calefaciendi convenit,
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            ita diſſimiles naturas, quibus vis illuminandi inſit, admittere
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            æquè poſſumus, ac propterea eandem lucis Empyreæ atque
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            noſtræ naturam eſſe nulla efficax ratio ſuadere videtur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21172" xml:space="preserve">Nam
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            antequàm Deus juberet fieri Lucem, quâ hæc inferiora corpora
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            illuſtrarentur, aut Cœlum, quod ſimul cum terrâ Deus ipſe
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            creavit, obductum erat tenebris, atque omnia prorſus tene-
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            broſa erant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21173" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21174" xml:space="preserve">ſupervacaneum fuiſſet ſingulari modo ſeribere,
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            tenebras fuiſse ſuper faciem abyſſi: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21175" xml:space="preserve">aut lucebat ipſum per ſe,
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            atque adeò alia erat lucis Natura Cœli propria, & </s>
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            hiſce inferioribus novam lucem Deus condidit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s21178" xml:space="preserve">Grad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21179" xml:space="preserve">Ex corporum percuſsorum naturâ atque formâ, non
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            uno modo illa vibrari, atque ita aërem alio atque alio modo
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            criſpari, ac diverſas ſoni ſpecies efformari, omnibus comper-
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            tum eſt, licet in hoc ſoni omnes conveniant, quòd ex aëre </s>
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