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

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              ſatis idonea refutatio, niſi teſteris te eſſe rem, aliquo­
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              ties ſaltem, accuratiſſimè expertum, ac ipſam falſam
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              deprehendiſſe: aut rationem certè congruam afferas,
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              <s id="s.000481">Et tamen, neque te
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              vel ſemel ipſam exploraſſe, falſamque comperiſſe di­
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              cis, neque vllam rationem profers: ſed cauſaris ſolum­
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              modo explorandi difficultatem; quam & repetis,
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              dum poſtquam retuliſti tempora ab illo notata, no­
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              tatis nempe, expenſiſque ponderibus aquæ, quæ è
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              clepſydra interim fluxiſſet:
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              Quippe nemo,
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              non
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              cenſus ad exactam menſuram exigere, vel eo maximè no­
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              mine, quòd in tanta celeritate initia, & fines horum mo­
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              tuum ſatis præcisè aduerti, notarique poſſe non videantur.
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              Sed nihil eſt opus inſiſtam ad arguendum id non
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              ſufficere; niſi aliunde aut resfactu impoſſibilis de­
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              monſtretur; aut obſeruator probetur fuiſſe malæ fidei,
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              ac indiligens, & difficultates præcauere neſcius. </s>
              <s id="s.000482">Ad­
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              derem quemadmodum ipſe rem explorare fuerim
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              conatus, tum dimiſſo per aërem globo, tum dela­
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              bente globulo per tubulos vitreos etiam orgyiis dua­
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              bus longiores, factoſque nunc magis, nunc minùs de­
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              cliueis, & adnotatis partibus æquis tum ad parietem,
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              ſecundum quem globus decideret, tum ad vtram­
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              que oram alueoli in tigno excauati, & tubulum quem­
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              que continentis; ac ſimul adhibitis ſociis, qui adno­
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              tarent ſinguli parteis ſingulas, quæ interim pertran­
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              ſirentur, dum ipſe temporis momenta nunc pulſatio­
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              nibus arteriæ, nunc itibus, reditibuſque penduli di-</s>
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