Musschenbroek, Petrus van, Physicae experimentales, et geometricae de magnete, tuborum capillarium vitreorumque speculorum attractione, magnitudine terrae, cohaerentia corporum firmorum dissertationes: ut et ephemerides meteorologicae ultraiectinae

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            Ignis tantummodo illud domat, quippe leni Igne Magnes calefactus
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            vires non perdit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1726" xml:space="preserve">Sæpe jungunt artifices multa Magnetum fragmenta
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            ſecum invicem, circa illa circumfundendo liquefactum plumbum,
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            ſtannum, vel aliud compoſitum metallum, neque vires ab eo cor-
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            rumpuntur calore, ſed manent integræ ſtabileſque: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1727" xml:space="preserve">quamobrem hæ
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            fortiter inhærent Magneti, non expellendæ niſi vi ſumma diutiſſi-
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            me continuati Ignis, aut ab eo tantum domandæ: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1728" xml:space="preserve">Attamen reſtat
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            hic aliquid obſcuriſſimum, quidnam nempe ſit illud in Lapide, in
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            quo vires ſedent? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1729" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1730" xml:space="preserve">quomodo id ab Igne agitatur, mutaturve, ut
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            ex agenti fiat iners? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1731" xml:space="preserve">hic mentis acies hebeſcit, hoc ſolo autem in-
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            tellecto omnis Magnetum effectus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1732" xml:space="preserve">operationes cognoſcerentur:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1733" xml:space="preserve">Si id corporeum ſit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1734" xml:space="preserve">ex Magnete exeat, quando operatur, daren-
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            tur Effluvia, a quorum affluxu, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1735" xml:space="preserve">refluxu omnia phænomena ori-
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            rentur, verum ſuperius monuimus, quibuſnam Effluviorum doctri-
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            na urgeatur difficultatibus, adeo ut hoc ſtatui nequeat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1736" xml:space="preserve">Si corporeum
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            ſit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1737" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1738" xml:space="preserve">ex Magnete non exeat, quomodo tum corpora ad multorum
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            pedum intervallum agitabit, movebit, ad ſe alliciet? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1739" xml:space="preserve">Neque hoc
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            animus ullomodo comprehendit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1740" xml:space="preserve">Verum an non eſt ſtabilita Lex
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            Naturæ; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1741" xml:space="preserve">atque â Creatore impreſſa omnibus corporibus, ut poſitis
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            his ſibi propinquis, vel ad aliquod intervallum, ſe attrahant, ad
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            ſe accedant, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1742" xml:space="preserve">cohæreant, quamvis nihil extrinſecus pellat, nihilque
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            in intermedio ſpatio ſit, quod ea attrahat, an poſita hac Lege Magnes
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            non accedet ad Magnetem aut ad Ferrum, omneſque ejus operationes
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            inde fluent? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1743" xml:space="preserve">Quamvis ejuſmodi Legem ab omnipotente Creatore
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            latam eſſe conceſſero, non tamen vi ejus fluent, aut ex ea explicari
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            poterunt phænomena, quæ Magnes conſpicienda præbet: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1744" xml:space="preserve">Quippe
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            ſive Igni commiſſus fuerit, ſive ex fodina modo ante erutus, ſub eo-
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            dem volumine manente ejus eadem maſſa corporea, eædem quoque
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            vires attrahentes obtinerent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1745" xml:space="preserve">in Naturæ Legem Ignis non egit, nec
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            eam immutare, nec deſtruere potuit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1746" xml:space="preserve">Ignis tamen potiſſimum virtutis
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            ex Magnete fugavit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1747" xml:space="preserve">verum pluribus obnoxia eſt hæc ſententia dif-
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            ficultatibus, conſtantis enim eſt obſervationis, Magnetem fortiter
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            Malleo percuſſum, ita ut omnes contremuerint partes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1748" xml:space="preserve">aut in pul-
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            verem contritum, rubigine obductum, aëri humido diu expoſitum,
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            ſitu inverſo in Meridiano ſuo jacentem, prope alium fortioribus vi-
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            ribus donatum, virtute orbari, infringi, debilitari, id </s>
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