Gassendi, Pierre, De motu impresso a motore translato epistulae duae, 1642

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              quàm & lapidem, & alia corpora terrena Terram pe­
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              tere, quòd corpuſculis ab illa tranſmiſſis ad eam alli­
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              ciantur. </s>
              <s id="id.000514">Et fac iam certum aliquod aëris nos am­
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              bientis ſpatium fieri à Deo prorſùs inane, adeò vt ne­
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              que ex Terra, neque aliunde aliquid in ipſum perue­
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              niat: an conſtitutus in eo lapis feretur in Terram,
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              centrumve ipſius? </s>
              <s id="id.000515">Certè non magis, quàm conſtitu­
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              tus in ſpatiis illis vltra-mundanis; quia ipſi nihil ne­
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              que cùm Terra, neque cum alia re quacumque mun­
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              di ipſius communicanti, perinde erit, ac ſi Mundus,
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              Terraque, aut centrum non eſſet, nihilque retum
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              exſiſteret. </s>
              <s id="id.000516">An-non igitur, ſi in Terram iam fertur,
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              ideò ferri putandum eſt, quòd aliquid ipſum circum­
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              ſtet, quicum communicationem habeat, & maximè
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              ex parte Terræ, à quo pertrahatur; ſi id quidem non
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              ſufficit, quod ſupernè eſt, vt ab eo pellatur? </s>
              <s id="id.000517">Nec te
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              moretur, quòd tanta moles, quanta ingentis Saxi eſt,
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              non videatur compelli poſſe tenuïbus adeò chordu­
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              lis; nam conſidera etiam quam tenüibus magna ferri
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              moles ad magneticum lapillum trahatur. </s>
              <s id="id.000518">Addo ſa­
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              xa, & cætera corpora, quæ dicuntur grauia, non
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              eam habere ad motum reſiſtentiam, quam vulgò
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              concipimus. </s>
              <s id="id.000519">Vides quippe ſi ingens moles appen­
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              datur funiculo, quàm leuicula vi ſit opus, vt è loco
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              dimoueatur, & prorſùm, retro: ſùmque eat. </s>
              <s id="id.000520">Cur
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              maiore ergo opus ſit, vt cieri deorſùm poſſit? </s>
              <s id="id.000521">Nec
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              dicas verò eſſe majorem, ob motum magis perni­
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              cem; etenim cùm primum deorſùm contendit, mo­
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              tus illius pernix non eſt, ſed lentiſſimus potiùs, cau­
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              ſáque dicenda mox eſt, ob quam deinceps accelere-</s>
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