Borro, Girolamo, De motu gravium et levium, 1575

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                ſi parente diſcretum fuiſſet, ſed à concordia in vnum omnia
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                funderentur: quærendum fuerat ab Empedocle, à quo nam
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                terra ad mundi medium truderetur, non ab incitatissima cæ
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                li conuerſione rotunda trudi, nec ab eadem terræ motum im­
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                pediri poterat,
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                cælum à diſcordia ſegregatum
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                erat,
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                ſed cum cæteris omnibus rebus confusè commixtum, terram
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                trudere, illiusque naturalem motum impedire non valebat.
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                Quærendum eſt etiam ab eodem Empedocle: ſi incitatissi­
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                ma cæli conuerſio cauſa eſt; cur terra ad medium moueatur,
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                & in medio quieſcat, quamobrem, ab eadem celerrima cæli
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                conuerſione ignis ad
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                non trudatur? </s>
                <s id="s.000547">& cur ibi non quie
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                ſcat? </s>
                <s id="s.000548">cuius rei, cum nullam cauſam indicare possit: dignus
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                est, vt cum ſua ſententia exploſus, à Philoſophorum conſortio
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                recedat.
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                Dicendum est igitur ante conuerſionem grauia, & leuia
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                fuiſſe, & inter ſe diſtincta, naturalemque locum habuiſſe, ad
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                quem natura concit arentur, & in quo natura manerent: gra
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                uia ad medium deſcendere, & in medio quieſcere, & leuia ad
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                ſuperam huius inferioris mundi regionem natura ſubstolli,
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                & in eo loco natura quieſcere, vt infra demonstrabimus.
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                <s id="s.000550">Ratio Empedoclis nihil habet momenti: nam ordo vniuerſi,
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                qui grauium motum ad medium, & eorumdem quietem in
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                medio postulat, à violenta quantumuis celerrima cæli conuer
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                ſione expellente, non impeditur: hanc expulſionem, quam pro
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                bat Empedocles, vt terram trudat, eſſe violentam, ex duobus
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                intelligimus: primo, quia fit à diſcordia antiqua vniuerſi pa­
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                rente, à qua nihil non
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                gignitur: ſecundo quia expul­
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                ſionis motus inter ſpecies eorum motuum, quos Aristoteles,
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                libro ſeptimo Phyſicorum particula decima, violentos appel­
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                lat, relata, naturalis eſſe non poteſt, ſed violenta: eadem re-
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