Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, 1670

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              menſurabilem non eſſe veram dimenſionem, ſed tan­
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              tummodò eius priuationem, & negationem, ſeù ni­
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              hilum. </s>
              <s id="s.002780">At ſi dicent illam longitudinem 4. cubitorum
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              extra mundum eſſe verè
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              , dicam ego: igi­
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              tur vos
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              admittitis
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              nempè quantitatem
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              ſine ſubiecto, ſcilicèt abſque ſubſtantia corporea,
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              quod ſi ab ſur dum eſt, debent quoque eadem mea re­
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              ſponſione difficultati occurrere. </s>
              <s id="s.002781">Et hoc profectò
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              videtur expreſsè ab Ariſtotele concedi, cum ait extra
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              mundum non dari nec locum, nec
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              , ſcilicèt
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              non reperiri dimenſiones, præter eas quas intellectus
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              falſa imaginatione ibi fingit, quod perinde eſt, ac af­
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              firmare prædictas dimenſiones extra mundum eſſe
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              meras priuationes, & negationes, ſcilicèt ibidem de­
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              ficere tantam longitudinem, quantam haberet cor­
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              pus aliquod ſubſtantiale, quod ibidem collocatum
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              fuiſſet, & modò ibi deeſt. </s>
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              Cap. 12. dę
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              vacui neceſ­
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              ſitate.</s>
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              <s id="s.002783">Poſtrema inſtantia, quæ ſolet afferri contra
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              talis eſt, tam impoſſibile eſt concipere aulam hanc
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              vacuam, & prorsùs corpore priuatam, vt neceſsè ſit
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              concedere eius parietes oppoſitos, & diſcretos ſe ſe
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              mutuo tangere, propterea quod ea dicuntur ſe ſę
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              tangere, inter quæ nil intermediat, cumque inter pa­
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              rietes oppoſitos prædictæ aulæ nihil intercedat, ſpa­
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              tium enim vacuum nullam entitatem habere ſuppo­
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              nitur; igitur parietes huius aulæ ſe mutuò tangerent,
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              quod eſt falſum. </s>
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              <s id="s.002784">Econtra ea corpora dicimus inter ſe diſtare inter
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              quæ aliquid intermediat, cum igitur parietes prædi-</s>
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