Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              tem hoc in medicis tractationibus, quòd
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              ſolùm
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              operationem habent. </s>
              <s id="s.003803">Viuunt
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              etiam elementa quoquo modo ( vt dictum
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              eſt ) cùm ad proprias regiones ſpontè fe­
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              rantur, miſta autem omnia longè meliore
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              vita: nam natura ſemper melius aliquid
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              intendit, quàm id ex quo conſtituit. </s>
              <s id="s.003804">Ob id
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              igitur Simplicio haud crediderim dicenti, vt
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              ab Herculeo lapide ferrum trahitur, ita exi­
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              ſtimari aurum ab oſſe piſcis milui trahi.
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              <s id="s.003805">Hoc enim quod in Phyſicis expoſitionibus
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              ſcripſit, rationi repugnat, quandoquidem os
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              illud non viuit. </s>
              <s id="s.003806">Oſtenſum eſt autem omnem
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              operationem eſſe viuentis, & vt viuit. </s>
              <s id="s.003807">Nam
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              etſi elementa etiam viuant, hoc opus ele­
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              mentorum haud eſſe poteſt, ſed attractio
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              propriæ cuiuſdam rei. </s>
              <s id="s.003808">Viuentis eſt vita, quæ
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              nutrimento ſaltem vtatur: at os piſcis non
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              viuit, cùm detraxeris ab animali, vitæ eo ge­
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              nere quod nutrimento vtitur. </s>
              <s id="s.003809">Sublata enim
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              anima eſt, ſentiens manifeſtè: at hæc nu­
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              trici eadem eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003810">Itaque adeò hac in demon­
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              ſtratione confido, vt quamvis non ſim ex­
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              pertus, auſim tamen dicere, impoſſibile eſſe,
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              vt os milui piſcis aurum non ſecus, ac fer­
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              rum Herculeus lapis trahat: à viuente au­
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              tem re alia quapiam, vt lapide, aut animali,
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              vel arbore, quamdiu vixerit, hoc fieri pro­
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              culdubio poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003811">Quòd ſi quis obiiciat, quòd
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              aculeus paſtinaceæ dolorem dentium tollat,
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              ſi ex eo gingiua ſacrificetur. </s>
              <s id="s.003812">Reſpondemus,
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              vim hanc quæ illi potentia, non actu ineſt,
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              non aliter quàm cantharidarum exulceran­
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              tem, ad actum ab animæ humanæ facultate
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              deduci, Deinde dolorem magnum affert hic
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              aculeus: dolor autem dolorem obſcurat, cùm
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              non in eadem parte fuerit, vt inquit Hippo­
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              crates, adeò vt acris dolor gingiuæ, dolorem
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              dentes haberet. </s>
              <s id="s.003813">Auocat & ob propinquita­
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              tem doloris cauſam, quæ plerunque eſt in
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              neruo denti inſito: nec hoc ſemper, neque
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              omnibus contingit. </s>
              <s id="s.003814">Itaque vires viuentibus
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              cùm tantùm actu ſint, lapidibus qui vires
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              habent animam ineſſe neceſſe eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003815">Sed dices,
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              Hoc tamen Philoſophus negat. </s>
              <s id="s.003816">Sed qui la­
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              pides, aut generari, aut augeri concedunt,
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              fateri etiam oportet illos viuere: facultatis
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              enim vegetatricis hæc communia ſunt, teſte
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              Galeno, generari, nutriri, & augeri. </s>
              <s id="s.003817">Vide­
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              tur etiam natura ſenſim ab extremo ad ex­
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              tremum tranſire, connectereque diſtincta
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              longius mediis ipſis: velut inter id quod non
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              nutritur, nec viuit, quodque viuit & nutri­
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              tur, medium conſtitui poterat quod viueret
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              & non nutriretur, quoque nutriretur, &
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              non viueret. </s>
              <s id="s.003818">At non viuere, & nutriri quic­
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              quam non poterat, cùm facultas eſſet abſ­
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              que ſubiecto principioque. </s>
              <s id="s.003819">Oportebat igitur
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              medium potius eſſe quod non nutriretur &
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              viueret. </s>
              <s id="s.003820">Nam principium eſſe abſque facul­
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              tate in his quæ natura læſa ſunt, contingit:
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              tales igitur lapides erunt. </s>
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              Ratio de­
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              monſtrans
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              contra Sim­
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              plicium
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              quod os piſ­
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              cis milui au­
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              rum non tra­
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              hit.</s>
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              Paſtinacæ
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              aculus dolo­
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              rem dentium
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              tollit.</s>
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              1.Mag.
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              <s id="s.003824">Mor. </s>
              <s id="s.003825">cap.</s>
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              <s id="s.003826">Ergo metallica in montibus non ſecus ar­
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              bores iacent, cùm radicibus ſuis trunco, ra­
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              mis, pluribus foliis: & ſunt tenues quæ­
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              dam partes nonnunquam floribus ac fructi­
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              bus: carent enim pleræque fructibus & flo­
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              ribus, cùm videamus, & hoc etiam plan­
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              tis contingere, quæ in puteis naſcuntur, &
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              in vmbra, vel arido nimis loco, vt adianto,
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              ſcolopendro, licheni, & non paucis capri­
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              ficis, cùm in muris naſcuntur: palàm enim
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              eſt fructus & flores luxuriantis arboris ac
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              fœcundæ eſſe ſigna. </s>
              <s id="s.003827">Fœcunditatis tum ab
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              humore, tum à calore Solis fit. </s>
              <s id="s.003828">Ob id igitur
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              nil mirum metallicis flores & fructus ſæ­
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              pius deeſſe, cùm Sol ſemper, humor etiam
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              copioſus plerunque deſit. </s>
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              Metallica
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              quomodo in
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              montibus ia­
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              ceant.</s>
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              Cur metal­
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              lica plerum­
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              que careant
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              floribus &
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              fructu.</s>
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              <s id="s.003831">Vbi verò abundent metallica, ſi velis de­
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              præhendere, certis & non paucis opus eſt
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              coniecturis. </s>
              <s id="s.003832">Oſtendit primò ferax prouincia,
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              vt nunc argenti Germania. </s>
              <s id="s.003833">Sic in Italia ar­
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              gentum vix, aurum nullo modo effodere li­
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              cet. </s>
              <s id="s.003834">Vt igitur in fœcunda regione plures
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              fœcundi agri, ita in feracis metallorum
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              prouincia plerique montes etiam præter
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              ſpem metalla ferunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003835">Montes etiam altiſſi­
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              mi vt ad eruendum ſunt difficiliores, ita
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              ad largiendum ſunt liberaliores: rarò enim
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              in humilioribus collibus materia hæc co­
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              pioſa inuenitur. </s>
              <s id="s.003836">Plerumque verò montium
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              cacumina, quæ ad meridiem tendunt, radi­
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              cibus ad Boream ſpectantibus, argumentum
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              metalli præbent; & maximè argenti, cuius
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              fodinæ feraciores rectà ex Oriente in Occi­
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              dentem tendere ſolent. </s>
              <s id="s.003837">Qui etiam montes
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              ſunt in calidis regionibus, gemmarum ſunt
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              feraciores: quòd in meridie, humor magis
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              ſiccetur & attenuetur: & ob id ſiccitate la­
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              pides, at tenuitate gemmæ generantur, mul­
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              tò autem humore & craſſo metalla fiunt.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.003838">Hic autem iuxta Septentriones viget. </s>
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              Quomodo
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              metallica
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              abundare in
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              montibus de
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              præhenda­
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              mus 15. in­
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              diciis.</s>
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              Curmeridies
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              gemmis Bo­
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              reas metal­
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              lis, abundent
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              magis.</s>
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              <s id="s.003841">Montes etiam ſteriles omnes metallici
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              ſunt, duabus ex cauſis: nam humor abſumi­
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              tur intus vnde plantæ generari nequeunt, &
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              mali halitus iam natas etiam plantas occi­
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              dunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003842">Color etiam montium, & lapidum, ac
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              terræ, non ſolùm metallica eſſe docet, ſed &
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              qualia ſint: viridis fit ære, niger ab argen­
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              to, & auro, purpureus à pyritide, liuidus à
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              plumbo & ferro, luridus à calchanto &
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              eiuſmodi ſiccis, cinereus & obſcurus à ſul­
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              phure. </s>
              <s id="s.003843">Oſtendit & odor: cùm enim duos
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              montis eiuſdem lapides ſimul attriueris, ſi
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              metallum monti ſubeſt, olent ſulphuris non
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              parum. </s>
              <s id="s.003844">Ob quod falsò creditum eſt, metalla
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              ſulphure conſtare, cùm ſit hic odor excre­
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              menti metallici, & ſuperfluæ coctionis in­
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              dicium. </s>
              <s id="s.003845">Grauiores etiam lapides, aut terra
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              quàm ratio poſtulet, certum eſt metallicæ
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              materiæ argumentum. </s>
              <s id="s.003846">Si etiam aliqua par­
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              te nimis ſplendeant, vel ſi ſolidi careant
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              omni ſplendore, ſubeſſe metalli materiam
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              certò ſcias: demum ſi igni liquefeceris, de­
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              præhendes ſimul & metallum eſſe, & genus
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              illius, & quantitatem. </s>
              <s id="s.003847">Aquæ etiam effluen­
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              tes leuem quandam huius coniecturam af­
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              ferunt: quæ ſi odorem, aut colorem, aut præ­
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              ſe ferant alienum, haud dubiè metallum in
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              monte eſſe pronunciabis. </s>
              <s id="s.003848">Fundum etiam al­
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              uei diligenter explorabis, nam partem me­
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              talli inuenies: vix enim fieri poteſt, vt lon­
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              go temporis ſucceſſu aliquid ſemper adden­
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              te die, ex deſcenſu grauioris partis, veſtium
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              metalli non appareat. </s>
              <s id="s.003849">Mons etiam rimo­
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              ſus, propter halitus acres metallicorum
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              fit. </s>
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              <s id="s.003850">Sunt etiam plantæ quæ metallorum ſo­
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              cietate gaudent: & vt rariores ſunt, quæ
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              metallis gaudent, eò ſi adſint
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              teſti-</s>
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