Borro, Girolamo, De motu gravium et levium, 1575

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                Si duo ſint (ait Empedocles) motus quorum alter alteri celeri
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                tate præſtet, qui celerior eſt, minus celerem præcedit; eumdem
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                que ita cohibet, vt fieri non queat, vt aqua ex hydriis in or­
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                bem ſæpe conuerſis, incitatissimeque contortis, non effluit,
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                uis deorſum natura feratur, & hydriarum apertum labrum
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                infra ſit, quod motus, qui in orbem fit, motu recto celerior, mo
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                tum rectum præcedat, eumdemque prohibeat: ſed motus cæ­
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                li, qui in orbem fit, est celerior motu terræ recto: ergo motum
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                terræ rectum præcedit, & eumdem impedit; quo minus fiat:
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                ergo cum cælum in orbem fertur, terra moueri non potest,
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                ſed ſtare compellitur. </s>
                <s id="s.000543">Hac ratione adductus Empedocles,
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                  ram</expan>
                ad centrum trudi, & in
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                conſiſtere ipſe ſibi perſuaſit.
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                Hæc opinio poteſt refelli, quia motus terræ ad medium, &
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                quies eius in medio violenta est: ergo terra ad locum extra
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                medium natura mouetur, & natura in illo quieſcit: nam mo­
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                tui violento, & quieti violentæ naturalis motus, & quies na­
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                turalis opponitur, & locus ad quem eſt motus naturalis, & in
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                quo eſt quies naturalis, ei loco opponitur, ad quem violentus fit
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                motus, & in quo violenta est quies:
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                enim id eſt, quod
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                contra naturam fit, vt ſupra ſæpe numero diximus: ergo ter­
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                ra grauis ſurſum, quo leuia ferri ſolent, natura feretur, & in
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                loco ſuperiore natura quieſcet, quod ſi terræ ſurſum natura
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                fertur, & ibi natura quieſcit: quærendum eſt, quo ignis leuiſ­
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                ſimus natura moueatur, & vbi natura maneat: ignem ad me
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                dium natura moueri, & in medio natura manere non ani­
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                maduertimus, ſed violentia: immo quanto maior eſt ignis, tan
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                to celerius in ſublime fertur: ergo terra grauissima ad
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                natura mouebitur, & in medio natura quieſcet, & ignis leuiſ­
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                ſimus in ſublime natura aſcendet, ibique natura conſiſtet.
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                Præterea antequam quicquam à diſcordia prima vniuer
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