Castelli, Benedetto, Of the mensuration of running waters, 1661

Page concordance

< >
Scan Original
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
< >
page |< < of 137 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <pb xlink:href="068/01/077.jpg" pagenum="63"/>
            <p type="head">
              <s>CONSIDER ATIONS
                <lb/>
              Concerning the
                <lb/>
              LAKE
                <lb/>
              OF
                <lb/>
              VENICE.
                <lb/>
              BY</s>
            </p>
            <p type="head">
              <s>D. BENEDETTO CASTELLI,
                <lb/>
              Abbot of S.
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Benedetto Aloyſio,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              Mathematician to
                <lb/>
              Pope
                <emph type="italics"/>
              VR BAN VIII.
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              and Profeſſor in
                <lb/>
              ROME.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="head">
              <s>
                <emph type="italics"/>
              CONSIDERATION I.
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>Though the principal cauſe be but one
                <lb/>
              onely, that in my judgment threatneth
                <lb/>
              irreparable ruine to the Lake of
                <lb/>
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Venice,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              in the preſent ſtate in which it
                <lb/>
              now ſtands; Yet nevertheleſſe, I think
                <lb/>
              that two Heads may be conſidered.
                <lb/>
              </s>
              <s>And this Conſideration may peradven­
                <lb/>
              ture ſerve us for to facilitate and explain
                <lb/>
              the opportune remedies, though not to
                <lb/>
              render the ſtate of things abſolutely unchangeable and eternal:
                <lb/>
              an enterprize impoſſible, and eſpecially in that which having had
                <lb/>
              ſome beginning, ought likewiſe neceſſarily to have its end; or
                <lb/>
              at leaſt to prevent the danger for many hundreds of years; and
                <lb/>
              poſſibly it may, in the mean time, by the mutation it ſelf be
                <lb/>
              brought into a better condition.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>I ſay therefore, that the preſent diſorder may be conſidered
                <lb/>
              under two Heads; One is the very notable diſcovery of Land
                <lb/>
              that is obſerved at the time of low Water, the which, beſides
                <lb/>
              the obſtructing of Navigation in the Lake and alſo in the
                <lb/>
              Chanels, doth likewiſe threaten another miſchief and diſorder </s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>
Impressum