Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, 1670
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              petuo menti obuerſatur phantaſia quædam tenuiſſi­
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              mæ auræ, aut alterius ſimilis rei, quæ limites corpo­
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              reos numquam progreditur. </s>
              <s id="s.002767">Nec ſolummodò in hoc
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              percipitur humanæ imaginationis imbecillitas, ſed
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              etiam in comprehenſione infiniti, & indiuiſibilis.
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              <s id="s.002768">Itaque quando vacuum cogitamus id quod verè
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                cipimus</expan>
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              hallucinatione, eſt, quod ſi ſpatium̨
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              vacuum eſſet plenum haberet profectò tantam
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                ſionem</expan>
              longitudinis, latitudinis, atque profundita­
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              tis, & hoc patet ex eò quòd non poteſt concipi
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                ſura</expan>
              ſpatij alicuius vacui abſque eo quòd intellectus
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              ibidem concipiat, vel filum, vel virgam, vel rem
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                quam</expan>
              corpoream, quæ quatenus corpus eſt, habet ve­
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              ram dimenſionem; at ſi loquamur de vacuo quatenùs
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              tale eſt, in eo prorsùs negari debent, & tolli omnes
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              dimenſiones, perſuaderique debemur prædictum̨
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              ſpatium inane carere, ſeu non habere longitudinem
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              viginti cubitorum v. g. ſcilicèt eſſe prorsùs nihilum. </s>
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              Cap. 12. dę
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              vacui neceſ­
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              ſitate.</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.002771">Neque nouum eſt in phyſicis, ac mathematicis
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                ſiderare</expan>
              naturas, & proprietates quantitatum, &
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              numerorum defectiuorum, qui vulgò vocantur, mi­
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              nus nihilo; hos profectò ne
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              , ſed
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              di­
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              uidi, & multiplicari poſſe
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              eſt, nihilominùs con­
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              ſtat meras priuationes, & negationes eſſe, nec vllam
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              entitatem habere. </s>
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              <s id="s.002772">Præterea vulgatum eſt, quòd dimenſiones purę, &
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              abſque ſubiecto nullam exiſtentiam in natura habent
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              niſi in imaginatione, & phantaſia noſtra, ſed tantum­
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              modò reperiuntur in natura res extenſæ ſcilicèt ſub-</s>
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