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

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              medium, directione circuli G, cui ob æquilibrium
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              reſpondet conſimilis F) ac inſuper vtraque lance ca­
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              tenulis ferreis à ſcapo AB per intermedios circulos,
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              trianguloſ-ve, dependente. </s>
              <s id="s.000548">Denique autem ſubiun­
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              gis,
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              Tam apertam eſſe eius rei demonſtrationem, vt nul­
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              lus,
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              inquis,
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              intellectus refragari poſſe videatur; dum ſemel
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              conſtet (quod quilibet ſine tanto apparatu, tantáque diligen­
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              tia facillimè experiri potest) globum quemcumque, ex vnius
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              diametri altitudine, poſſe (vltra æquilibrium) pondus ſibi
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              æquale, & ex duabus diametris duplum pondus attollere.
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              Prætereo autem demonſtrationem non alio nixam
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              fundamento, quàm ipsâ experientiâ à te ſuppoſitâ;
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              prætereoque item, quod iterùm ſubdis,
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              Illud quoque
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              pari certitudine constare, quod antè dictum eſt, nihil ad pro­
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              poſitionis veritatem, atque euidentiam opus eſſe, vt ex al­
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              tiore diſtantia, tantóque apparatu experientia inquiratur,
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              quæ ex aliquot diametrorum altitudine pluſquam abundè;
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              ac facillimè habeatur.
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              <s id="s.000549">XXIV. </s>
              <s id="s.000550">Et tale eſt quidem tuum experimentum.
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              <s id="s.000551">Ego autem, humaniſſime Vir, gratiſſimo primùm
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              animo complector liberaliſſimum erga me affectum;
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              ac deinde etiam tibi gratulor, quod primus morta­
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              lium excogitâris quemadmodum negotium viſum
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              difficile reuocari ad trutinam poſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.000552">Nempe quan­
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              tumvis res non videatur pro tua ſtare ſententia; fuit
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              tamen tua ſolertia dignum, id in mentem inducere,
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              vnde examen improbum, quacumque ex parte huiuſ­
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              modi foret, poſſet caſtigari. </s>
              <s id="s.000553">Ac ſi res quidem ſic ſe
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              haberet, vt enarrati abs te videtur, reputari poſſet
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              penitus confecta; nullumque eſſet dubium, quin </s>
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