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

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              eſt, vt quid id ſit rei, tibi diſcutiendum relinquam,
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              viſuro, an, ſi quid impoſuit circa vnam, pauculaſve
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              que intelligere ſequi illos haud-dubiè aliam, quàm à
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              te præſcriptam rationem. </s>
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              <s id="s.000591">XXVIII. </s>
              <s id="s.000592">Nihil verò neceſſe eſt dicam circa id,
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              quod ais,
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              Etſi natura illud in globo peculiare, ac pro­
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              prium eſſe voluit, vt eius diameter præciſa eſſet menſura
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              illius altitudinis, ex qua ſuo nutu cadens, æquale ſibi pon­
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              dus attolleret; ac proinde, &c. </s>
              <s id="s.000593">in cæteris tamen etiam
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              corporibus idem quoque ſeruata proportione accidere; vt ſi ex
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              quacumque diſtantia æquale ſibi pondus attollant, ex eadem
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              diſtantia duplicata duplicatum, & ex triplicata
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              attollant, atque ita conſequenter, ob eandem rationem; cui
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              rationi ipſa quoque experientia ſuffragetur, &c. </s>
              <s id="s.000594">hac ta­
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              men differentia, quòd in globis, diameter altitudines præ­
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              cisè definiat, vnde pondus ipſorum multiplicetur, in cæteris
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              figuris non item; ſed in illis altitudines diametris ipſarum
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              ſint minores; ratio verò poſtulet vt vniuerſim in figuris om­
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              nibus tales altitudines diametro ſphæræ eiuſdem molis, ac
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              ponderis inueniantur æquales.
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              <s id="s.000595"> Nihil, inquam, eſt opus
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              vt ad iſtud dicam; cùm neque ſuffragari experien­
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              tiam videam, neque ipſe globus, quicum corpora
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              aliarum figurarum confers, habeat pro menſura præ-</s>
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