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

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              moueatur. </s>
              <s id="id.000552">Niſi iam faciat, cauſam videri admi­
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              ſtionem motus perpendicularis, ob attractionem à
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              Terra factam interuenientis, quæ diuergere illum à
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              tramite faciat (neque ceſſet, quovſque ipſum ad
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              Terram vſque perduxerit) vt dum ramenta ferri
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              prope magnetem tranſiecta non rectà pergunt, ſed
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              verſus magnetem diuertuntur; aut dum vniuerſe rei,
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              quæ mouetur, oblique occurrimus, ipſamque in obli­
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              quam deflectimus plagam. </s>
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              <s id="id.000553">XVII. Nunc, tandem, cùm præter cauſam impel­
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              lentem, etiam attrahens excogitata fuerit; ea-ne po­
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              tis eſt id præſtare quod priùs deſiderabatur? </s>
              <s id="id.000554">Vide­
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              tur eſſe; neque id modò, ſed & videtur attrahens
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              vnà cum impellente euadere integra cauſa eius pro­
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              portionis, qua velocitas continuò increſcit. </s>
              <s id="id.000555">Nam
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              primùm ſi id repetas, quod paulò ante dicebamus
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              de inani facto, quod ſupra Terram eſt, ſpatio in
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              quo poſitus ſemel lapis conſiſteret; concipe corpus
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              aëris ita à Deo reſtitui, lapidemque circumam­
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              bire, vt nulla tamen vis attractrix ex Terra ad eum
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              perueniat; & peruidebis non fore cur lapis ab im­
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              motò aëre in vnam partem potius moueatur, quàm
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              in aliam. </s>
              <s id="id.000556">Finge quippe cætera deſtrui, & nihil ſuper­
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              eſſe præter lapidem, cum circumſtante aëre; agnoſ­
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              ces profectò aërem ex ſe non eſſe lapidem in vnam,
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              potiùſquàm in aliam partem impulſurum. </s>
              <s id="id.000557">Concipe
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              deinde reſtitui non aerem, ſed ſolum effluuium ma­
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              gneticorum radiorum ex Terra; & peruidebis eſſe
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              cur lapis poſſit à quiete exturbari, & verſus Terram
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              attrahi. </s>
              <s id="id.000558">Itaque vis Terræ attractrix eſſe ea cauſa po-</s>
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