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

List of thumbnails

< >
91
91
92
92
93
93
94
94
95
95
96
96
97
97
98
98
99
99
100
100
< >
page |< < of 360 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.000558">
                <pb pagenum="46" xlink:href="028/01/086.jpg"/>
              hominibus, etiam optimis) ſtare nihil vetat. </s>
              <s id="s.000559">Cùm ad­
                <lb/>
              dis autem prætereà generale eſſe, vt pro numero dia­
                <lb/>
              metrorum, quibus idem globus dimiſſus abfuerit à
                <lb/>
              lance, pondera cleuet ſuo paria; quaſi cùm id præ­
                <lb/>
              ſtiterit in certo quodam numero, non valeat citra
                <lb/>
              illum plureis, vltrà pauciores eleuare; hoc eſt, quod
                <lb/>
              peto mihi condones, vt dicere liceat, in veritatis gra­
                <lb/>
              tiam, te aut ſatis non attendiſſe, aut alijs etiam ni­
                <lb/>
              miùm credidiſſe. </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.000560">XXV. </s>
              <s id="s.000561">Vt ſaltem liceat quid-nam mihi contige­
                <lb/>
              rit, commemorare; Tu ſæpe adeò repetiiſti non eſſe
                <lb/>
              magno apparatu, magnaque diligentia opus ad
                <lb/>
              peragendum experimentum, vt niſi argumentis ſu­
                <lb/>
              perioribus fuiſſem oppoſitum perſuaſus, vix induxiſ­
                <lb/>
              ſem in animum (nihil ſcilicet hæſitans, imò hæſitan­
                <lb/>
              di pudore ſuffuſus) periculum facere vllum. </s>
              <s id="s.000562">Feci
                <lb/>
              tamen, & ipſa præſertim à te inculcata facilitate in­
                <lb/>
              uitatus; vnde & obuiam primò Bilancen, qua numu­
                <lb/>
              larius ſolebat nuper monetæ argenteæ ſummam ali­
                <lb/>
              quot librarum Marcarum non-numeratam appen­
                <lb/>
              dere, probaréque, aſſumendam duxi. </s>
              <s id="s.000563">Quoniam ve­
                <lb/>
              rò tu aſſerebas
                <emph type="italics"/>
              ita à natura eſſe conſtitutum, vt globus
                <lb/>
              quilibet cuiuſcumque materiæ ex vnius diametri altitudine
                <lb/>
              cadens, pondus attollat ſibi æquale, præter illud, quod in ęqui­
                <lb/>
              librio ſine impetu retineret,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              &c. </s>
              <s id="s.000564">ideo ſufficere putaui, ſi
                <lb/>
              globum marmoreum, quem habebam præ manibus,
                <lb/>
              duorum cum ſextante digitorum pedis Pariſini dia­
                <lb/>
              metro, ac vnciarum proximè decem, Libræ itidem
                <lb/>
              Pariſinæ pondere, ad experiundum vſurparem. </s>
              <s id="s.000565">Ap­
                <lb/>
              paratis ergo ponderibus variis, quæ ex æquo cum </s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>