Fabri, Honoré, Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, 1665

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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000882"> Probè intelligo tuum ſyſtema Lunare; vis enim Lunam ſim­
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              plici motu moveri ab Ortu ad Occaſum, ſed longè tardiùs, quàm ſtellas;
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              ita vt intra tempus vnius menſis periodici Luna à Stellis retro relicta ver­
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              sùs Ortum, videatur totum Zodiacum percurrere, & ad idem punctum
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              redire; & quia Sol toto eo tempore versùs Ortum relictus eſt, quaſi 27.
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              grad. antequam ad copulam Luna redeat, duobus diebus & aliquot horis
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              opus eſt: hunc menſis Synodicus longior periodico; addis vtriuſque incli­
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              nationis motum, ita vt ſecundæ terminus ſit Eclyptica; & quia motus ſe­
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              cundæ abſolvitur paulò ante finem periodici, hinc motus Nodorum ver­
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              sùs Occaſum, itemque Apogæi versùs Ortum; quia periodus intra quam
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              Luna redit ad Apogæum, paulò longior eſt menſe periodico: inæqualitas
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              ſimplex eodem modo à te explicatur in Luna, & in Sole; aliæ ex diverſa
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              combinatione vtriuſque inclinationis naſcuntur: Latitudinem per motum
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              ſecundæ inclinationis facilè omninò explicas, Vtrùm verò major ſit Lati­
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              tudo in Quadraturis, quàm in Copulis, incertum putas, itemque multa alia
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              incerta, quæ ſupra obiter recenſuiſti; optimè demum explicas, quomodo
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              menſes Periodici modò majores ſint, modò minores, itèmque Synodici,
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              menſes enim Periodici majores ſunt, quando Nodi ſunt circa Æquato­
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              rem, minores verò, quando ſunt circa Tropicos; Synodici autem majores
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              ſunt, dum Sol eſt circa Apogæum, dum verò circa Perigæum minores;
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              neque in his vlla reſtat difficultas; vnum tantùm ex te reſcire velim, Anti­
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              me, quid cenſeas de libratione illa Lunari, qua ſit, vt quædam interdum
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              maculæ ad margines diſci Lunaris propiùs accedant, aliàs, ab iis longiùs
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              recedant. </s>
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              Antim
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              Hevelio fideliſſimo & accuratiſſimo Lunarium Phænomenon
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              obſervatori, in his detrectari fidem, non auſim ; hic autem vult, Lunam
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              ita librari, vt cùm maximè ab Æquatore declinat, versùs Boream, macu­
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              læ Boreales in ejus diſco recedant à margine, Auſtrales contra ad margi­
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              nes accedant; & viciſſim cùm maximè declinat versùs Auſtrum, auſtra­
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              les recedant, accedant verò Boreales. </s>
              <s id="s.000884">Nonnulli ex veſtris, Auguſtine, ſta­
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              tuunt ad hunc finem, Lunarem axem ſibi ipſi parallelum, & Axi mundi; ſed
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              meo judicio perperam ſatis, dum enim versùs Tropicum Cancri acce­
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              dit Luna, extremitas Borealis axis attolleretur, vt patet, igitur & Semicir­
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              culus diſci Borealis, & Auſtralis de primeretur; ex quo contraria Phænome­
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              na ſequerentur; Malim dicere Lunarem Globum magnetica forſan virtute
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              pellere, ac proinde habere duos polos magneticos; igitur codem prorſus
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              modo ſeſe componit ad terreſtrem Globum, quo terrella quæpiam, vel
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              acus magnetica; igitur quando Luna versùs Boream tendit ab Æquatore,
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              extremitas borealis axis deprimitur, Auſtralis verò attollitur, & viciſſim;
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              cùm Luna ab Æquatore versùs Auſtrum excurrit; Auſtralis deprimitur,
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              Borealis attollitur, ex quo prædicti effectus neceſſariò conſequuntur. </s>
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              Chryſocom.
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              <s id="s.000886"> Parum admodùm abeſt, quin hoc apprimè capiam; nonni­
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              hil ſchematis deſiderarem, vt hoc meliùs inculcetur </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000888"> Id mihi præſtandum ſuſcipio: ſit meridianus Lunaris SBTK,
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              Axis magneticus BK, ſemicirculus ad terram converſus BSK, qui in </s>
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