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

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              amabò circa illud centrum potiùs quàm circa aliud? </s>
              <s id="s.000947">Cur non circa Solem,
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              qui eſt in Mundi centro? </s>
              <s id="s.000948">aut ſi vis, moveri in Eclipſi, cur hanc adhibes po­
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              tiùs quàm
                <expan abbr="aliã">aliam</expan>
              ? </s>
              <s id="s.000949">cur Sol in hoc. </s>
              <s id="s.000950">vmbilico,
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              verò in alio, vel in ipſo ellipſeos
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              centro? </s>
              <s id="s.000951">deinde cur & vnde movetur Apogæum? </s>
              <s id="s.000952">cur in conſequentia potiùs
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              quàm in antecedentia? </s>
              <s id="s.000953">cur terra ab occaſu ad ortum, tum motu centri, tum
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              etiam orbis ſecundùm hemiſphærium à Sole averſum? </s>
              <s id="s.000954">cur per Eclipticam
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              cum tanta declinatione ab Æquatore? </s>
              <s id="s.000955">vnde etiam motus orbis annuus
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              diurno contrarius? </s>
              <s id="s.000956">denique vnde ipſa vertigo Solis? </s>
              <s id="s.000957">cur tanta, non major
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              aut minor? </s>
              <s id="s.000958">Cuncta hæc,
                <expan abbr="aliaq̨">aliaque</expan>
              ; fortè ſimilia ſine vlla ratione vel cauſa exi­
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              gente Copernicana hypotheſis habet, eo tantùm nomine, quod ad ſalvan­
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              da phænomena, neceſſaria eſſe credantur, quæ tamen alio modo ſalvari
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              poſſunt. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000960"> Par pari haud dubiè referre poſſum: nunquid enim hæc eadęm
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              in veſtra hypotheſi ad ſalvanda phænomena gratis & abſque alia cauſa non
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              aſtruuntur? </s>
              <s id="s.000961">nunquid non poniti sex centricos, epicyclos, Apogæi Nodorum­
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              que motum? </s>
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              Chryſec.
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              <s id="s.000963"> Scio, à multis in noſtra hypotheſi, hæc gratis adſtrui; Anti­
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              mus tamen noſter, vt jam non ſemel audiiſti, vno ſimplici motu æqua­
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              bili, & gemina inclinatione illa omnia explicat, & ad ſuas cauſas re­
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              ducit. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.000965"> Tuo illo argumento, Chryſocome, contra Copernicum non ſe­
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              mel vſus ſum, re tamen paulò accuratiùs
                <expan abbr="cõſiderata">conſiderata</expan>
              , illæ rationes, quæ meo
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              ſyſtemati favent, pro explicatione illorum capitum, quæ ſupra recenſuiſti,
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              ad Copernicanum facilè traduci poſſunt, & pro illo æquè militant. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000967"> Magno certè beneficio me tibi obſtringes, ſi rem hanc me do­
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              cueris, quæ certè quanti momenti futura ſit, vix dici à me poteſt; ſi enim
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              Keplerus pro metis nugis & fabulis, in quibus cauſas phyſicas cæleſtium
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              phænomenon collocabat, tantam gloriam apud omnes obtinuit; quid de
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              illo faturum putas, qui veras eorundem cauſas in hac hypotheſi Copernici
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              ad duxerit? </s>
              <s id="s.000968">inde ſaltem maxima tua ingenuitas conſpicua & palam fiet, cùm
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              vel noſti arma porrigas, quibus ſe defendat. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.000970"> Libenter faciam; nec enim in hiſce diſſertationibus literariis, ali­
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              quorum dolus mihi probatur, qui ea celant adverſarium, quæ illius cauſæ
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              ſuffragantur; mihi ſanè ſecus agendum eſſe puto. </s>
              <s id="s.000971">Itaque ſupponamus So­
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              lem in centro mundi A ſtabulari, terram in apogæo C.circulum CHFP in
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              plano Eclipticæ, per quem terræ
                <expan abbr="centrũmoveretur">centrum moveretur</expan>
              à C in N, quod vocamus
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              in conſequentia Signorum, ſi eſſet in mediocri, vel | connaturali diſtantia; ſed
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              quia ab Apogæo ad mediocrem diſtantiam tendit, ſenſim motu accelerato
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              accedit versùs A, ſimulque, tendit motu circulari verſus H, vnde
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              movetur
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              per arcum CH, ſed per alium CG ; ſupponamus autem AG eſſe mediocre
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              diſtantiam; in ea non ſiſtit; ſed motu retardato progreditur vltrà versus Peri­
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              gæum; & quia receſſus à mediocri' diſtantia æqualis eſt acceſſui, æquali tem­
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              pore decurret arcum GE, atque ita erit Perigæum in E, ex quo pari modo
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              pervenit in I, nam AI eſt mediocris diſtantia, reditque per iſochronum
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              receſſum, ad Apogæum C; ſive autem arcus CGE ſit ſemicirculus, vel </s>
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