Buonamici, Francesco, De motu libri X

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              cipium poſuere præter materiam, mouens erat, ſiue amor, vt cenſuit Parmenides,
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              a
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              ſiue (vt me­
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              minit Cicero
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              b
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              ) ſtephane à coronæ ſimilitudine dicta, hoc eſt, continens ardore lucis orbis, qui
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              cingit cęlum quem appellat Deum: aut etiam mens, vt putauit Anaxagoras, vel lis & amicitia
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              quas potuit Epedocles; licet ad illa confugiant vt tragici poëtę, cum explicare argumenti exitum
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              non poſſunt. </s>
              <s>Igitur cùm illis certandum fuit & error eorum confutandus. </s>
              <s>id verò cum omni
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              induſtria confectum fuerit ab Ariſtotele; facit quominus ego credam ſententiam cęteroqui ve­
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              riſsimam nempe. </s>
              <s>Naturam eſſe aut agere gratia rei cuiuſpiam, cum principiis eſſe
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              .
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              <s>Neque verò mihi placet quod aliqui defendunt, non directò
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              . </s>
              <s>rationibus, ſed elenchicè
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              tractari ſententiam illam qua ratione liceat inire certamen cum iis qui principia refutant. </s>
              <s>Etenim
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              ſi diſputationis illius progreſſum animaduertas; ex propriis eius methodi principiis rem quo­
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              que confectam fuiſſe reperies, & aliqua vt vera aſſumpta, non data; qui mos ſcientiarum pro­
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              prius eſt; neque vt illò tendentia quò elenchica
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              dirigitur (huius enim ſcopi ſunt quin­
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              que repugnantia, falſum, inopinabile, ſolœciſmus, & nugatio) ſed vt oſtendentia ſic eſſe & ſenſu
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              munita qui certus eſt index in phyſicis; & eiuſmodi quę in illa principia reſolui poſsint, quę phy­
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              ſicus pro certiſsimis accipit. </s>
              <s>Et indicat hoc propoſitio quæſtionis quæ per notum exponitur quę
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              cauſſam ſignificat, nimirum
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              , ideſt quamobrem qua, tametſi optimi autores vſi ſint pro ſim­
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              plici, quæ eſt
                <foreign lang="grc">ο̂τι</foreign>
              , ideſt quòd, nihilominus à nobis pro cauſſa accipienda eſt, eo quòd indicat
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                <foreign lang="grc">τό βέλτιον</foreign>
              , & melius quòd finem eſſe ſuprà docuimus;
                <expan abbr="eaq́">eaque</expan>
              . </s>
              <s>ſe profitetur afferre Ariſtoteles, vt
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              dubitationem ſoluat: atqui dubitationum ſolutiones ſunt ea quæ demonſtrantur. </s>
              <s>Itaque non
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              elenchicè, ſed phyſicè tractatum fuit hoc theorema. </s>
              <s>Planum eſt quidem eſſe finem, & ex hac
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              cauſſa reddi poſſe rationem complurium problematum: liquet etiam methodos accipere qua­
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              tuor genera cauſſarum: ſed illud obſcurum & inquirendum; ſit'ne aliquis finis, cuius ergò natu­
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              ra operetur: & an ſolus materiæ curſus, vt antiqui voluerunt; ea præſtet, quæ fini tribuit in na­
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              tura philoſophus. </s>
              <s>Idcirco mea quidem ſententia erit hoc non principium, ſed theorema. </s>
              <s>Natu­
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              ram agere cuiuſpiam rei gratia. </s>
              <s>Tritum quoque illud eſt apud philoſophos naturales cauſſam
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              ei præferri cuius eſt cauſſa. </s>
              <s>Nunc cauſſa multis modis ea reſpicit quorum eſt auctor. </s>
              <s>Etenim vel
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              in nomine & ratione conuenit, vt cum filio pater, vel actus eſt & perfectio: rurſus cauſſa vel eſt
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              in mente, vel in reipſa: tum tertiò cauſſa vel princeps eſt, vel inſtrumentum. </s>
              <s>Prætereà cauſſa eſt
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              aut poteſtas, aut actus. </s>
              <s>Poſtremò cauſſa pertinet ad eſſe, cùm vbi quippiam gignitur; tùm etiam
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              poſtquam genitum eſt: nanque operatio iam eſt rei genitæ &cum fine cenſeri ſolet. </s>
              <s>Atqui per­
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              ſpicuum eſt cauſſam illam quæ perfectio nuncupatur, modo quodam nobiliore quàm cauſſas
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              vniuocas, effecta ſua continere, ob
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              . </s>
              <s>rem ipſis quoque præſtantiores eſſe, poſtquam ex illius
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              gremio, vt ita dicam, effuſa fuerint. </s>
              <s>Cauſſas item in mente, qualem ponimus eſſentiam, quæ defi­
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              nitione explicatur, ipſi rei quæ exiſtit, præponendas eſſe ſuo loco docebimus, interim pro hypo­
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              theſi ſtatuatur. </s>
              <s>Omnes etiam confitentur actum poteſtati, vt imperfecto perfectum præcedere,
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              & cùm materia ſit poteſtas, cęterę cauſſæ ſint actus generatim, materiam excipiunt quæ ſola pro­
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              pter imperfectionem non ſit effectui præferenda; quapropter etiam cùm agens actu exiſtat, pa­
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              tiens verò ſit poteſtate; agens patienti ſine controuerſia præponunt. </s>
              <s>ob
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              . </s>
              <s>rem quia ſe habet
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              inſtrumentum ad cauſſam principem vt patiens ad agens, eodem iudicio perhibemus inſtrumen­
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              tum non modo cauſſæ mouenti poſtponendum, verùm etiam effectui poſtponi poſſe; vt ſi effe­
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              ctus à cauſſa vniuoca producatur, proptereà ſemen, licet imperfectum; cauſſa hominis quæ res
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              eſt perfecta, eſſe poteſt, cum à meliore principio deſcendat, quod eſt homo alter qui actu eſt, at­
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              que perfectus. </s>
              <s>
                <expan abbr="Ideoq́">Ideoque</expan>
              . </s>
              <s>notabat veteres Ariſtoteles, quia rationem optimi honeſtiſsimi & pręſtan­
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              tiſsimi principiis denegarent,
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              c
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              quòd ex ſemine virum naſci perſpicerent, hoc verò imperfectum
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              eſſet. </s>
              <s>neque intelligerent ſemen non eſſe principium, ſed inſtrumentum quod ex alio penderet:
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              id autem perfectum eſſet, cum actu exiſteret à quo ſemen pararetur. </s>
              <s>Itaque principium
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              ,
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              & honeſtiſsimum eſt. </s>
              <s>Et certè ita ſit neceſſe eſt; cùm actus ſit principium ſimpliciter. </s>
              <s>Nam ma­
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              teria quoque cùm ſit potentia, principiorum numero excluditur. </s>
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              d
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              Hæc quidem à nob. </s>
              <s>conſen­
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              tienter cum cęteris aſſeruntur. </s>
              <s>De vniuocis, & fine non conuenit: apparet enim eandem eſſe con­
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              ditionem Sophroniſci patris & Socratis filij; atque omnino generatim, cùm vna ſubſtantia indi­
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              uidua gignat alteram, nec vna ſit magis minusúe ſubſtantia quàm altera, neutram eſſe præferen­
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              dam. </s>
              <s>Prætereà cum finis ſit vel generationis, vel rei genitę, quia rei genitæ finem in ordine acci­
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              dentium collocant, ea verò ſubſtantiæ cedunt omnibus modis, & hoc etiam cauſſæ genus effe­
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              ctui & illi cuius eſt cauſſa, præferendum non eſſe ducunt. </s>
              <s>Nos contrà in vniuocis etiam cauſſas
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              effectibus anteponimus; quippe qui cauſſas in actu contemplemur. </s>
              <s>tùm enim cauſſæ verè ſunt:
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              atqui cauſſæ in actu cum re conferuntur quæ eſſe poteſt & gignitur, nec dum exiſtit. </s>
              <s>itaque ne­
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              ceſſariò præſtant. </s>
              <s>Poſteà longo ſermone nob. </s>
              <s>oſtendendum eſt functiones eſſe ex ordine
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              ,
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              & vt actus cum poteſtate conferri. </s>
              <s>Quamobrem & ab hoc vſque ad illa tempora ſuperſedeamus.
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              </s>
              <s>ſatis hoc ſit, quòd ſi actus
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              eſt perfectior; actio quoque in ipſo
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              inerit, vt perfectio. </s>
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