Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              <s id="s.000455">XVI. </s>
              <s id="s.000456">Imprimis porrò non retices ipſe dictum
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              eſſe à Galileo demiſſum ex C globum aſcenſurum
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              vſque ad D, aut proxime:
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              vt proinde non videatur di­
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              ctum ab illo aſſeueranter aſſurrecturum globum
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              ad eandem altitudinem, aut veritatis teſtimonium
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              ex re falſa ab ipſo peti; quaſi intellexerit globum aſ­
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              ſequi altitudinem exquiſitè, ſeu præcisè eandem. </s>
              <s id="s.000457">Et
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              certè non modò dixit ipſe
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              quaſi,
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              ſeu
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              ferè,
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              ac
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              ſuperfu­
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              turum interuallum quoddam perexiguum;
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              ſed etiam cauſ­
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              ſam attigit, ob quam ita fiat; referens eam putà ad
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              impedimentum partim aëris, partim fili; de quo vtro­
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              que heic dicerem, niſi iam dictum ſatis copiosè in
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              Epiſtolis memoratis foret. </s>
              <s id="s.000458">Deinde, quód globus ad
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              horizontalem lineam propiùs ad H, remotiùs ad
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              Kaſcendat, quàm ad ipſum D; videri poteſt cauſſa
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              perſpicua, neque infringere vim experimenti. </s>
              <s id="s.000459">Nam
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              quod ſpectat quidem ad H, res ideò contin git, quòd
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              quoties clauus defigitur inter A, & horizontalem
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              lineam, breuitas tum fili, tum ſpatij aërei, per quod
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              arcus deſcribitur, minùs præſtet impedimenti: vnde
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              & abfuiſſet globus adhûc propiùs, ſi fuiſſet clauus
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              infra E defixus, vti & longiùs, ſi ſupra ipſum Quod
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              verò ad K, res minùs eſt mira; quòd quoties clauus
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              defigitur infra horizontalem lineam, dimiſſus ex I
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              globus non per totum arcum IB decidat, ſed per
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              inferiorem ſolùm eius partem, in quam perpendicu­
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              lariter cadit; vnde & minùs adhûc, minuſque reſi­
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              liiſſet, ſi defixiſſes clauum inferiùs, quouſque globus
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              non potuiſſet ad lineam attolli; veluti & magis, ma­
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              giſque, ſi ſuperiùs, quouſque clauo defixo in linea, </s>
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