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

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              comparatum ad id, quo ex vno loco perueniri ad
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              alium poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.000618">Fit etiam proinde, vt idem dicendum
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              de acceleratione ſit; quippe acceleratio duo ſaltem
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              tempora deſignat, in quorum vno celeriter, in alio
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              celeriùs mobile feratur; ac intelligimus aliunde tem­
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              poribus illis æqualibus ſumptis, pauciores ſpatij par­
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              teis priore, plureis poſteriore percurri. </s>
              <s id="s.000619">Et adnitere
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              facere perſpectum, quidnam acceleratio ſit, nulla men­
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              tione temporis; ac pernoſces rem impoſſibilem factu
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              eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.000620">Vtcumque enim plureis, plureiſque ſpatij par­
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              teis memore: niſi tamen adiicias voces
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              deinceps, conſe­
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              quenter, ſucceßiuè,
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              aut ſimileis alias, quæ ad tempus at­
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              tineant, non magis accelerationem, quàm ſimplicem
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              celeritatem, aut potiuſ-quam motum ſimpliciter ſpe­
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              ctatum deſcribes. </s>
              <s id="s.000621">Quanquam nihil eſt opus id vr­
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              geam, cùm tu pro confeſſo iam habeas; profeſſus
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              nempe
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              celeritatem in naturali deſcenſu grauium non modò
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              ad locum, ſed ad tempus quoque reſpectum includere:
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              ac
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              mirari ſolùm quis poſſit, agnoſcere te in celeritate
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              duplicem reſpectum, & velle tamen alterum, ipſum­
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              que præcipuum in tradenda definitione accelerati mo­
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              tus excluſum; ac inuehi in Galileum, qui incluſum
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              voluerit. </s>
              <s id="s.000622">Nam & licet, veluti tu reſpectum ad tem­
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              pus prætermiſſum fers, ſic ille reſpectum ad locum
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              prætermitti poſſe cenſuerit: excuſari poteſt, quòd qui
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              motum dicit, locum etiam dicat, quemadmodum
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              mox attigi; & cùm foret ſolùm de celeritate ſuperue­
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              niento quæſtio, ideò nugationem deuitans, illam per
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              reſpectum ad tempus, ſine quo intelligi nequeat, pu­
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              tâtit eſſe deſiniendam. </s>
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