Gassendi, Pierre, De motu impresso a motore translato epistulae duae, 1642
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              longiùs, ſicque minùs conferta minùs polleant, &
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              ſuperatâ quadam diſtantiâ, attractioni imparia, ac
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              tandem nulla ſint; eodem modo Telluris globum
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              ita illam ſuam attractricem vim in orbem diffundere,
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              vt corpuſculorum emiſſorum radij ſummoperè tan­
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              dem rareſcant, neque ex quacúmque diſtantia (vt, ſi
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              velis, ſupra-lunari, aut extra-mundana) attrahere la­
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              pidem poſſint. </s>
              <s id="id.000508">Concipe certè lapidem in ſpatiis illis
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              imaginaris, quæ ſunt protenſa vltra hunc mundum,
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              & in quibus poſſet Deus alios mundos condere; an
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              cenſeas ipſum illicô vbi conſtitutus illeic fuerit, ver­
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              ſus hanc Terram conuolaturum, & non potiùs vbi
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              fuerit ſemel poſitus, immotum manſurum, vt putà
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              quaſi non habentem neque ſurſùm, neque deorſùm,
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              quò tendere, aut vnde recedere valeat? </s>
              <s id="id.000509">Si cenſeas
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              fore, vt hûc feratur; imaginare non modò Terram,
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              verùm etiam totum mundum eſſe in nihilum reda­
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              ctum, ſpatiáque hæc eſſe perinde inania, ac ante­
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              quàm Deus mundum conderet; tunc ſaltem, quia
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              centrum non erit, ſpatiáque omnia erunt ſimilia;
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              cenſebis lapidem non hûc acceſſurum, ſed in loco
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              illo fixum permanſurum. </s>
              <s id="id.000510">Reſtituatur mundus, &
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              in ipſo Terra, an lapis ſtatim hûc contendet? </s>
              <s id="id.000511">Si fieri
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              dicas, oportet ſanè ſentiri Terram à lapide, deberé­
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              que proinde Terram tranſmittere in ipſum vim
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              quandam, atque adeò corpuſcula, quibus ſui ſenſum
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              illi imprimat, ſeſeque reſtitutam, ac in eodem loco
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              denuò exſiſtentem veluti renunciet. </s>
              <s id="id.000512">Secùs enim
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              quomodo capis poſſe lapidem allici ad Terram?
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              <s id="id.000513">ld verò ſi ita futurum ſit, quid-nam aliud arguitur </s>
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