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

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              tas figuratas non molles, nec fluidas, quæ proindè
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              omninò rigidæ, & duræ eſſe debent certis, ac deter­
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              minatis figuris præditæ; imaginemur modò huiuſmo­
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              di duras particulas fluidum
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              ſic coapta­
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              ri, ac conſtipari vt omninò ſpatium repleant, patet
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              apices angulorum earumdem ad vnum punctum
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                uenientes</expan>
              dum in quiete conſiſtunt præcisè octo an­
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              gulos rectos ſolidos æquare, aliàs ſpatium omninò
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              non implerent; qualemcumque poſtea figuram ha­
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              bere particulas duras fluidum componentes ſuppo­
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              namus, ſi illæ omnibus varijſque motionibus agiten­
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              tur, certum eſt, quod textura, ordo, & difpoſitio con­
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              ſtipata particularum fluidi perturbatur, diſſoluitur­
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              que, vt innumera ſpatiola vacua in inſtanti creentur.
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              <s id="s.002901">Hoc profectò patet exemplo pauimenti ſpicati, ſiuè
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              rexellati, ex laterculis, ſiuè lapillis angularibus po­
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              lygonis variè figuratis contextum; hi ſanè concinnè
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              adaptati ſpatia lateralia omninò implent, quamdiù
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              in quiete conſiſtunt, at ſi quis velit vnum ſolummodo
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              laterculum reuoluere, aut directè horizontali motu
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              transferre inter alia latercula, neceſsè eſt vt diſſoluat
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              conſtipatam illam texturam ambientium laterculo­
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              rum, quæ contorqueri, & è ſuis locis expelli debent
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              diuerſis, & contrarijs reuolutionibus, &
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              eſt pror­
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              sùs impoſſibile, vt anguli ſolidi ad vnum
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                uenientes</expan>
              æquales ſint, ſicuti priùs octo angulis re­
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              ctis ſolidis, ſed neceſsè eſt, vt plura interſtitia inania,
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              ſeù à laterculis non occupata remaneant. </s>
              <s id="s.002902">Idem pror­
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              sùs in particulis fluidum componentibus euenturum </s>
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