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

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              <s id="s.000230">ART. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX.
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              <s id="s.000231">Et Magnetem ferrum, & Terram grauia trahe­
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              re per inſenſilia organula: &, Cur attractio pro­
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              pe Terram non ſit ſenſibilior, quàm procùl. </s>
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              Non ridet Author in ſinu, vt R. P. ait, dum Magne­
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              tem non trahere ſine organulis corporeis contendit: neque non
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              agit ſeriò, dum hamulos, catenulaſque, quatenus patitur imbe­
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              cillitas, fingit. </s>
              <s id="s.000233">Dum ait R.
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              P.
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              non alio modo tractionem fie­
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              ri, quàm quòd Magnes, & ferrum ſponte naturæ incitata in
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              mutuos amplexus accurrant; id eleganter quidem, ſed non ita
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              vt res vocibus ſubiecta intelligi poßit: quomodo ſcilicet vtrum­
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              uis, ac ſpeciatim ferrum inanime, ac inarticulatum, incitet
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              ſeipſum, & nullare à Magnete emiſſa, diuinet tamen, quando
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              eſt propè, & metiatur vireis, ac ſpatium, è quo verſus ipſum
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              inſiliat. </s>
              <s id="s.000234">Neque verò dicere poteſt emitti à Magnete quali­
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              tatem quandam, quæ ſit merum accidens: cùm exinde diffi­
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              cultatum inextricabilium ſeges ſubnaſcatur. </s>
              <s id="s.000235">Quod cauſſatur
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                <expan abbr="autẽ">autem</expan>
              organula inſenſilia dicta: conſtat ſatis ea ſic dici, quòd nec
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              videri oculis, nec palpari manibus poßint. </s>
              <s id="s.000236">Iniuriâ traducit Au­
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              thorem R. P. quaſi proptereà neget poſſe
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              Magneti talem
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              qualitatem, qualem deſcribit imprimere:
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              quæſtio non ſit, an
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              à Deo ſit, quicquid Magneti
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              eſt: ſed quale ſit, quod est
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              impreſſum. </s>
              <s id="s.000237">Quod obiicit verò, vt ferrum à Magnete fortiùs è
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              propinquo, quàm, è longinquo trahitur, non ſic obſeruari
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              trahi à terra lapidem, quatenus magis non ponderat, nec ve­
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              locius initio cadit ad baſin turris, quàm ad fastigium: Patet
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              cauſſam eſſe, non quòd diſcrimen aliquod non ſit: ſed quòd
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              euadere ſenſibile non poßit, quouſque lapis ponderetur, inci­
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              piatve cadere ex tanta altitudine, quæ non minorem habeat
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