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

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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.001058"> Multa ſanè, ac ferè omnia in memoriam revocavi, vt facilè
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              mihi perſuadeo, quæ pro adſtruenda Marini æſtus cauſa, dicturus eſtes;
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              ſed nihil occurrit profectò, quod iam ab aliis dictum, ſeu fictum non fuerit:
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              nempe, vt vel inde initium diſſertationis ducamus, negari non poteſt, quin
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              Lunaris globus in hac ſcena ſuas, eaſque præcipuas partes agat; quid por­
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              rò Luna præſtare queat, quod jam excogitatum, ſeu fictum non ſit, immò
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              & rejectum? </s>
              <s id="s.001059">intumeſcit aqua in æſtu, quod nemo peritus negare auſit;
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              cùm tantus ſit in quibuſdam oris aquarum tumor, vt ad quinquaginta pe­
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              dum altitudinem facilè aſcendat; quibus porrò organis, ſeu trochleis,
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              & qua vi Luna hunc aquis motum imprimat, præſertim, cùm abſente
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              Luna aqua etiam per æſtum intumeſcat, conjicere non poſſum. </s>
              <s id="s.001060">Video,
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              Lunam Marini æſtus cauſam eſſe, cùm ex diverſa Lunæ applicatione, im­
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              mò & aſpectu, diverſis æſtus conſequatur; quonam verò pacto, id Luna
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              præſtet, nec video, nec alij profectò vident. </s>
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              Chryſocom.
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              Hæc vna potiſſimùm ex iis rebus cenſenda eſt, quas Deus
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              occultas & ignotas Mortalibus eſſe voluit; ita vt ingeniosè iuxta atque
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              ſapienter ille recentior dixerit, Marinum æſtum humanæ curioſitatis nau­
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              fragium eſſe; ſed quid tandem tu, Antime? </s>
              <s id="s.001062">Modicam Auguſtinus de te
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              ſpem habere videtur, quaſi ſuper hac re nihil novi afferre valeas; ego ve­
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              ro te adeò imprudentem eſſe, non puto, vt fidem tuam fruſtra & in caſſum
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              oppigneratis, vt antiquum, de quo jam ſupra, adagium in ſcenam revoces;
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              parturient montes, naſcetur ridiculus mus.
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.001064"> Parum quidem admodùm mihi arrogo; ſpero tamen, aliquid
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              me adducturum, idque ex communibus principiis, quod ſi fortè non mul­
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              tis, nonnullis tamen arrideat: Concedo igitur. </s>
              <s id="s.001065">Auguſtine, id quod paulò
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              ante dicebas, Lunam ſcilicet in hoc negotio ſuas agere partes, nempe ſunt
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              quaſi tres Marini æſtus periodi, diurna ſcilicet, menſtrua, annua; ſingulis
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              ferè diebus bis accedit, & affluit æſtus, bis recurrit; dico ferè, quia hic ge­
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              minus curſus & recurſus non 24. ſed 25. horis, paulò minùs perficitur, ſci­
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              licet ad Lunæ motum; nempe Luna, vt redeat ad idem Meridiani pun­
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              ctum, quaſi 25. horas ponit; igitur ſingulis diebus vna ferè hora tardior
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              æſtus tumet, v.g. ſi hodie hora Meridiana fuit ſummum æſtus, craſtina die
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              erit ferè prima poſt Meridiem hora: die verò ſequenti, hora poſt Meri­
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              diem ſecunda; atque ita conſequenter. </s>
              <s id="s.001066">Hic porrò Lunæ motus eſt; altera
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              periodus eſt menſtrua; nempe pro diverſo Lunæ aſpectu, æſtus major, vel
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              minor eſt; v. g. in Plenilunio major eſt, quàm in Novilunio, & in hoc
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              major quàm in Quadraturis, cùm igitur ex Lunæ motu & aſpectu tota il­
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              la æſtuum varietas procedat, negari non poteſt, quin à Luna pendeat.
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              <s id="s.001067">Tertia demum periodus eſt annua, nam obſervatum fuit in Æquinoctiis
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              & Solſtitiis, non modicam fieri mutationem æſtuum præſertim in Æqui­
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              noctiis, ita vt in Æquinoctio, v.g. Autumnali cum Plenilunio conjuncto,
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              ſemper ſit maximus æſtus, in quo etiam Luna ſuo munere defungitur; ſi
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              enim fiat Æquinoctium in Quadratura, modicus æſtus eſt. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.001069"> Lunam, cauſam eſſe fateor vltrò; ſi autem cauſa eſt, aliquid
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              agit & confert; quid porrò illud eſt? </s>
              <s id="s.001070">fac age, me doceas, & eris mihi magnus
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              Apollo. </s>
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