Guevara, Giovanni di, In Aristotelis mechanicas commentarii, 1627

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              alibi demonſtrauimus; planum profecto relinquitur, qua
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              ratione, paruo appendiculo in ſtatera, magna leuari poſſint
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              pondera, vt intendebat Philoſophus. </s>
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              <s id="N157E3">Quoniam verò in præfato diſcurſu ſemel atque iterum
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              Ariſtoteles docuit, ſtateram eſſe veluti libram, in qua plures
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              ſint libræ, ac totidem quot fuerint ſparta, hinc Blancanus
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              conijcit, apud Priſcos, ſtateram ex multis trutinis, ſeu ſpar­
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              tis compactam fuiſſe, paribus interuallis per totam longi­
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              tudinem ipſius ſtateræ diſſeminatis; Ex quibus ſingulis
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              prout pondus poſtulabat, illa ſuſpenderetur, appendiculo
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              ſemper in extremitate ſui brachij immoto manente; It aut
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              tantum mercis lanci imponeretur, quantum appendiculo
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              æquiponderaret, iuxta
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              cuiuſlibet trutinæ. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Proin-deq.">Proin­
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              ſingulæ trutinæ ad aliquod determinatum mercium
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              pondus trutinandum fuerint conſtitutæ. </s>
              <s id="N15806">Atque de hac ve­
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              teri ſtatera putat Ariſtotelem locutum fuiſſe, de eaque ſo­
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              lum verificari, quod ſe habeat tanquam libra, quæ plures
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              contineat libras. </s>
              <s id="N1580F">Nam tot erunt libræ quot ſparta, quæ di­
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              uerſas proportiones libræ conſtituunt, atque adeo veluti
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              diuerſas omnino libras. </s>
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              <s id="N15818">Verumenimuerò non ſatis id colligitur ex Ariſtotele, nec
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              videtur neceſſarium ad verificandum dictum illud eiuſdem
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              Philoſophi. </s>
              <s id="N1581F">Quandoquidem etiam ſtatera prout modò apud
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              noſtrates eſt in vſu, ex duplici ſaltem trutina ſolet conſtare,
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              vna quæ loco vnde lanx pendet eſt propior, altera verò
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              quæ aliquantulum eſt remotior, & in oppoſito, ſeu inuerſo
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              ſtateræ latere locatur: Ac per propiorem vtique onera ma­
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              iora, per remotiorem verò minora conſueuerunt librari; li­
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              bero ſemper manente appendiculo, vt per reliquum ſtateræ
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              brachium iuxta exigentiam ponderis diſcurrere valeat.
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              <s id="N15831">Quamobrem hac quoque in ſtatera contineri videntur plu­
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              res libræ, cum ſaltem duplex in ea trutina reperiatur, quæ
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              tanquam duplex libra deſeruit ad maiora, vel minora one­
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              ra aptius ponderanda, & vt eadem ſecundum maiores, vel
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              minores differentias ponderum quando opus fuerit innote­
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              ſcant. </s>
              <s id="N15840">Et quidem cum Ariſtoteles ait: ac ſi vna libra multæ </s>
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