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

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              deſcenſus procliuior, faciliorque, & aſcenſus difficilior vi­
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              deatur:
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              id repugnaret tum compenſationi, aduerſus
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              quam nihil obiicis, inter breuitatem, & decliuita­
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              tem ſpatij; tum familiari experientiæ de rebus deor­
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              sùm impactis, quæ impetu pari deiectæ tantò emer­
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              gunt altiùs, quantò incidentia eſt magis perpendi­
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              cularis. </s>
              <s id="s.000474">Attingo ergo potiùs id, quod ſupereſt,
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              dum id ſugillas, quod Galileus ſe eſſe ſæpiùs exper­
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              tum ait,
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              tum globum ferreum per aërem cadentem, tum
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              globum æneum per excauatum in longiore tigillo alueolum,
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              in quacumque tigilli ſupra horizontem eleuatione deſcenden­
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              tem, perpetuò tantum præcisè temporis in deſcenſu per pri­
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              mum totius percurrendi spatij quadrantem, quantum in
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              trium reliquorum decurſu inſumpſiſſe: ex quo ſine dubio con­
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              ſequens eſſet, ſpatia æqualibus temporibus decurſa in ea
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              eſſe ratione, quæ reperitur inter numeros impareis ab vnita­
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              te procedenteis.
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              <s id="s.000475"> Nimirùm, vt oſtendas ea, quæ ex iſtis
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              quaſi principiis conſequuntur, aut inferuntur, eſſe ip­
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              ſis certiora, aut cuidentiora non poſſe:
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              Id,
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              inquis,
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              tot
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              erroribus obnoxium eſt, & exploratu adcò difficile, vt nihil
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              inde certi concludi poſſe videatur.
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              <s id="s.000476"> Enimverò, vtcum­
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              que experiundi modus difficilis ſit, obnoxiuſque er­
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              roribus; non idcircò tamen experimentum conuin­
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              citur falſum. </s>
              <s id="s.000477">Tuum certè illud de Libra, cui totus
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              poſteà inniteris, quot quæſo, vel te deducente, er­
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              roribus obnoxium eſt? </s>
              <s id="s.000478">quàm exploratu difficile? </s>
              <s id="s.000479">&
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              ipſum tamen falſum non habes? </s>
              <s id="s.000480">Cùm profectò illo
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              teſtetur ſe ſaltem centies rem exploraſſe, & experi­
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              mentum ſemper ita ſucceſſiſſe, vt vix vlla vnquam
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              differentiola interceſſerit; videri poteſt non eſſe tua </s>
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