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              <pb o="42" file="0062" n="66" rhead="De Mundi Fabrica."/>
            rens, nunc ob aggerationem mare ab ea multum receſſit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4165" xml:space="preserve">Patauium mare alluebat, quod nunc 25. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4166" xml:space="preserve">millia pa@-
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            ſuum diſtat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4167" xml:space="preserve">Aeſtuarium ipſum Venetum ob arenas à
              <unsure/>
            fluuijs hinc inde inuectas, fundum adeo extulit, vt vix
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            amplius nauigationi ſit idoneum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4168" xml:space="preserve">periculumq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4169" xml:space="preserve">immineat ne Venetiarum mirabilis locus ex maritimo fiat
              <lb/>
            terreſtris. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4170" xml:space="preserve">demum noſter Bononienſium Rhenus, quamuis exiguus torrẽs paucis tamen annis quibus in Pa-
              <lb/>
            dum, in quem arte immiſlus, influxit, eum ita arena, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4171" xml:space="preserve">limo compleuit, vt & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4172" xml:space="preserve">Pado, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4173" xml:space="preserve">fibi magno agrorũ
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            damno, viam in mare obſtruxerit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4174" xml:space="preserve">Cum igitur ob varias aggerationes mare cogatur magis quotidie rece-
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            dere, fiatque alueus ipſius anguſtor, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4175" xml:space="preserve">e@atior, neceſſe eſt aliquando futurum, vt exundare incipiat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4176" xml:space="preserve">quod iam
              <lb/>
            pleriſq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4177" xml:space="preserve">in locis accidit, vt in littore Baltico, Danico, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4178" xml:space="preserve">Hollandico; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4179" xml:space="preserve">quibus in locis iam pridem ſunt extru-
              <lb/>
            cti prælongi, ac præalti aggeres contra maritimas exundationes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4180" xml:space="preserve">quibus antiquitus minimè opus fuiſſe Hi-
              <lb/>
            ſtoricorum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4181" xml:space="preserve">Geographorum ſilentium comprobat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4182" xml:space="preserve">Hoc igitur modo terra ea, quæ montes conflat, pau-
              <lb/>
            latim ab aquis in maris concauitates deducta, cauſa eſt vt mare ſenſim modo hac, modo illac, terræ ſuperfi-
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            ciei ſuperfundatur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4183" xml:space="preserve">ſicq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4184" xml:space="preserve">iterum terræ globus, vti erat exordio mundi inhabitabilis ob aquarum effuſionem
              <lb/>
            reddatur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4185" xml:space="preserve">atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4186" xml:space="preserve">omnino ad priſtinum ſtatum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4187" xml:space="preserve">figuram terra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4188" xml:space="preserve">aqua reuertantur, in quo naturaliter quie-
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            ſcere debent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4189" xml:space="preserve">Quod probare volebam.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4190" xml:space="preserve"/>
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        </div>
        <div xml:id="echoid-div83" type="section" level="1" n="57">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head60" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Tantum æui mutare poteſt longæ@a vetuſtas.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4191" xml:space="preserve">Hinc nonnulla deducuntur conſectari
              <unsure/>
            a ſcitu digniſſima; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4192" xml:space="preserve">Mundum videlicet, vel ſaltem terram ab æter-
              <lb/>
            no non fuiſſe figura hac præditam, quam nunc videmus, nec mundum perpetuo duraturum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4193" xml:space="preserve">nam ſi hæc illi
              <lb/>
            montuoſa figura ab æterno ineſiet, iam pri
              <unsure/>
            dem tota illa montium tuberoſitas fuiflet ab aquis exeſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4194" xml:space="preserve">con-
              <lb/>
            ſumpta: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4195" xml:space="preserve">neq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4196" xml:space="preserve">æterna eſſe poterit, quia, vt probauimus, ſucceſſu temporis, reducetur ad perfectam rotundi-
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            tatem, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4197" xml:space="preserve">a mari inundabitur, vnde fiet inhabitabilis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4198" xml:space="preserve">indeq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4199" xml:space="preserve">neceſſario mortalium genus interibit qua-
              <lb/>
            propter niſi igneo illo, quem ſacræ literæ innuunt, cataclyſmo ille præueniretur, aqua nihilominus interi-
              <lb/>
            turum eſſet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4200" xml:space="preserve">ſi plura deſideras conſule opus noſtrum de locis Mathematicis apud Ariſtotelem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4201" xml:space="preserve">multo poſt
              <lb/>
            tempore a quo hæc literis mandaueram, incidi in libellum Philonis Hebræi de mundo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4202" xml:space="preserve">vbi ipſe hanc rem
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            pauciſiſſimis ac obſcurè tangit.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4203" xml:space="preserve"/>
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        </div>
        <div xml:id="echoid-div84" type="section" level="1" n="58">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head61" style="it" xml:space="preserve">De Magnitudine. Cap. V.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4204" xml:space="preserve">DV pliciter telluris magnitudo conſideranda eſt, comparatè videlicet, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4205" xml:space="preserve">abſolutè. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4206" xml:space="preserve">Terra igitur ſupremo
              <lb/>
            cælo, ac toti mundo comparata eſt inſtar puncti, ac illius veluti centrum inſenſibile in eius medio reſi-
              <lb/>
            dens quod quidem ex eo patet, quod vt ſupra probauimus ex quouis terræ ſuperficiei loco, non minus cæli
              <lb/>
            climidium, quam ſi in eius centro eſſemus, videamus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4207" xml:space="preserve">argumentum ſanè euidens terræ craſſitiem nullatenus
              <lb/>
            obſtare, qui
              <unsure/>
            n mundi hemiſphærium, ſeu ſemimundum ſpectemus, ac proinde ipſius molem ad totum mun-
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            clum collatam inſenfibilem omnino euadere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4208" xml:space="preserve">inſpiciatur figura ſeq. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4209" xml:space="preserve">pag. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4210" xml:space="preserve">88. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4211" xml:space="preserve">vbi quia terra maior eſt quã opor
              <lb/>
            teret ideo horizon phyficus K L. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4212" xml:space="preserve">non dirimit cęlum in partes æquas, nam pars K C L. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4213" xml:space="preserve">ſupra dictum horizon
              <lb/>
            tem, quæ ſola à ſuo habitatore vi deri poteſt, multò minor eſt ſemimundo.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4215" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi terra ibi depicta eſſet adeò parua, vt centro ſuo ibi depicto æqualis eſſet, tunc horizon K L. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4216" xml:space="preserve">coin-
              <lb/>
            cideret ferè cum horizonte aſtronomico A D. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4217" xml:space="preserve">ac proinde cælum in partes ad ſenſum æquas ſecaret, nõ aliter
              <lb/>
            ac ipſa terra faciat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4218" xml:space="preserve">exiſtimandum igitur eam ad cælum nullius eſſe magnitudin s.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4219" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4220" xml:space="preserve">2 Ex probatiſſimorum Aſtronorum ſententia, vt poſtea videbimus inerrantium ſphæra, ſiue firmamen-
              <lb/>
            tum ad terram collatum, eam ſaltem habet rationem, quam 2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4221" xml:space="preserve">milliones millionum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4222" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4223" xml:space="preserve">(vt aiunt) habent ad
              <lb/>
            1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4224" xml:space="preserve">ideſt, 2, 744, 000, 000, 000, ad 1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4225" xml:space="preserve">hoc eſt intra firmamenti concauitatem continerentur duo milliones mil-
              <lb/>
            lionum, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4226" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4227" xml:space="preserve">Terrarum, quare merito dicendum eſt, eam inſenſibilem euadere ſi cum firmamento compare-
              <lb/>
            tur, um vnitas ad tantum numerum ſit pené
              <unsure/>
            nihil.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4228" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4229" xml:space="preserve">3 Idem oſtenditur ex Aſtronomicis inſtrumẽtis, vti ſunt ſolaria horologia; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4230" xml:space="preserve">quando enim ea conſtruunt
              <lb/>
            Aſtronomi, ſupponunt ſtyli apicem eſſe præcisè in centro terrę ac mundi, cum tamen poſtea eo vtimur, non
              <lb/>
            in centro mundi, vel terræ, ſed valdè ab eo diſtantes, videlicet in terræ ſuperficie lumus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4231" xml:space="preserve">nihilominus tamen
              <lb/>
            horas adeo exactè indicat, ac ſi in centro exiſteret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4232" xml:space="preserve">quod euidens indicium eſt, Telluris globum non ſolum
              <lb/>
            ad totius vniuerſi machinam, verum etiam ad cæleſtem Solis regionem indiuidui puncti vicem obtinere;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4233" xml:space="preserve">quandoquidem Sol circa ſtyli apicem ſupra terram exiſtentem, eadem efficit, quæ ſi in eius centro eſſet, ef-
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            ficeret.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4235" xml:space="preserve">4 Argumenta illa omnia ſuperius allata, quæ terram in medio mundi eſſe conuincunt, eandem quoque
              <lb/>
            eſle inſtar puncti demonſtrant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4236" xml:space="preserve">oſtendunt enim primo terræ ſuperficiem in centro mundi exiſtere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4237" xml:space="preserve">Illud po-
              <lb/>
            ſtremo notandum quatuor has rationes pro terræ paruitate allatas, conuenire etiam, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4238" xml:space="preserve">applicari poſſe Ele-
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            mento aquæ, ſiue mari, vt conſideranti fac@lè patebit.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4239" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head62" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Terræ
            <unsure/>
          magnitudo abſoluta.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4240" xml:space="preserve">Iam tandem ad hanc ſubtiliſſimam Aſtronomorum indagationem, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4241" xml:space="preserve">vt ita dicam, ad primum Aſtro-
              <lb/>
            nom@æ miraculum peruenimus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4242" xml:space="preserve">Enimuero non ſolum illiteratorum vulgus, verum etiam philoſophan-
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            tium complures ſæpius audiui, præclaram hanc atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4243" xml:space="preserve">abſtruſam cognitionem humani ingenij viribus impa-
              <lb/>
            rem exiſtimantes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4244" xml:space="preserve">quis enim, aiunt, eam metiens obiuit, aut ambire potuit, pelagus, lacubus, montibus cir-
              <lb/>
            cumambulantẽ impedientibus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4245" xml:space="preserve">Verum enimuerò Aſtronomi non pedibus, ſed ingenio, ac ſolertia ſublimius
              <lb/>
            incedentes, eam circumluſtrarunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4246" xml:space="preserve">Rem autem aggrediamur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4247" xml:space="preserve">Quadruplicem in quauis ſphæra, vti terra </s>
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