Guevara, Giovanni di, In Aristotelis mechanicas commentarii, 1627

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              dente ad centrum mundi in duas partes æquales, & æquè
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              ponderantes, ac proinde ſemper eſt eadem illarum pro­
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              portio inter ſe, & eadem ponderum ratio, ex qua prouenit
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              motus. </s>
              <s id="N1438B">Fatetur tamen hoc tantum procedere abſtractè lo­
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              quendo cum alioquin in trochleis, ac rotis materialibus ne­
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              gare non poſſit experientiam quam ſupponit Ariſtoteles.
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              <s id="N14394">Quare totam maiorem facilitatem, quam experimur in ipſis
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              trochleis, ac rotis maioribus, ipſe ad maiorem proportio­
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              nem, quam vt plurimum rota maior habet cum proprio axe
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              reducit. </s>
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              <s id="N1439F">Sed quidquid ſit de facilitate, aut difficultate ſimul
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              ex hoc capite, quam certè admittimus, ac infra
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              explicabimus: ſiſtendo in ſola ratione maioris, aut minoris
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              ambitus rotæ prout hic ſupponit Ariſtoteles, cæteris ſcilicet
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              paribus; exploratiſſimum eſt, ac negari minimè poteſt, quam
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              facilius adhuc ſeruata eadem proportione axis, ſeu craſſitiei
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              illius ad ambitum rotæ, ferantur
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              , ſi maioribus aſpor­
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              tentur, eleuentur; aut trahantur rotis; ſicut etiam ſcytalis, de
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              quibus hic eadem eſt ratio. </s>
              <s id="N143BE">Loquitur autem Ariſtoteles
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              de illo genere
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              , quæ ſimiliter circa axim
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              ad eleuanda pondera conuertuntur, appoſito in altera ex­
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              tremitate
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              ferreo quoddam manubrio, vt in ſpecie eſt
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              in ſubiecta figura. </s>
              <s id="N143D5">Scytala enim de ſe
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              ſignificat lignum
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              quoddam
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              , ac teres
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                <expan abbr="cylindrũ">cylindrum</expan>
              , cui
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              alijs adiunctis diuerſæ machinæ, ac inſtrumenta vectoria, ſi­
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              ue tractoria efficiuntur, quorum nonnulla adhuc ſcytalæ
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              vocantur, vt hæc de qua loquimur, & alia de qua infra quæ­
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              ſtione 11. </s>
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              <s id="N143FD">His itaque ſic ſe habentibus breuiter ac perſpicuè quæ­
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              ſtionem diluit Ariſtoteles, inquiens, maiorem hanc facilita­
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              tem, ac velocitatem motus procedere à maiori diſtantia, </s>
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