Borro, Girolamo, De motu gravium et levium, 1575

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                Eam ob rem ſi quis quærat, cur ignis ad ſuperum locum
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                perpetuò ſubuolet, non id propter partium eiuſdem generis
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                paucitatem accidere dicet, vt Plato affirmauit; nam ſi id
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                verum eſſet, ſequeretur, vt ignis quantò maior eſſet, tantò tar­
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                dius aſcenderet, quia grauior eſſet; propterea quod ex pluri­
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                bus conſtaret partibus eiuſdem generis; quod apertissimè fal­
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                ſum eſſe videmus, cum potius contrarium ſemper accidat.
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                <s id="s.000356">Quanto etenim maior ignis eſt, tanto ſolet etiam eſſe celerior,
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                & maiore nixu ſurſum ferri; contraque minor ignis longè fa­
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                cilius deorſum truditur, quam magnus.
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                Præterea, cum it a statuat Plato; id quod pauciores habet
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                eiuſdem naturæ partes, ſeu triangulos, leuius eſſe; quod autem
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                plures, ponderoſius: deinde ignem, aerem, &
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                ex eiſdem
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                fermè triangulis coaugmentari dicat, paucitate dumtaxat,
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                & multitudine ſola differentibus, vnde accidat, vt hæc gra­
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                uiora, & leuiora ſint illa, nulli dubium eſt, quin aeris quædam
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                magna, & ſtatuta quantitas, aquam minorem pondere ſupe­
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                ret: quoniam plures eiuſdem formæ triangulos
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                ; quo
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                nihil abſurdius, nihil magis à veritate alienum, atque abhor­
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                rens dici poſſe nemo inficias ibit: quælibet enim aeris particu­
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                la, ſeu magna, ſeu parua ex aqua emergit, & in ſublime fer
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                tur, &
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                aeris portio fuerit maior, tantò incitabitur cele­
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                rius, ex aqua
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                minimus, aut exiguus ignis, & aer.
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                <s id="s.000358">Explicatur nexus argumentorum Platonis, qui de
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                graui, & leui perperam egit. </s>
                <s id="s.000359">Cap. XXV.</s>
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                <s id="s.000360">N
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                ec propterea quod rotundum ſit cælum, nullam par
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                tium contrariam poſitionem habet, vt Piato rebatur;
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                immo quia rotundum ita eſt cælum, vt nihil excogita-
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