Castelli, Benedetto, Of the mensuration of running waters, 1661

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              <s>OF THE
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              MENSURATION
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              OF
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              Running Waters.</s>
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              LIB.
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              I.</s>
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              <s>What, and of how great moment the confi­
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              deration of
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              Motion
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              is in natural things,
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              is ſo manifeſt, that the Prince of
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              Peri­
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              pateticks
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              pronounced that in his Schools
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              now much uſed Sentence:
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              Ignorato mo­
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              tu, ignoratur natura.
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              Thence it is that
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              true Philoſophers have ſo travailed in the
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              contemplation of the Celeſtial motions,
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              and in the ſpeculation of the motions of
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              Animals, that they have arrived to a wonderful height and ſub­
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              limity of underſtanding. </s>
              <s>Under the ſame Science of
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              Motion
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              is comprehended all that which is written by Mechanitians con­
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              cerning Engines moving of themſelves,
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              Machins
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              moving by the
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              force of Air, and thoſe which ſerve to move weights and im­
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              menſe magnitudes with ſmall force. </s>
              <s>There appertaineth to the
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              Science of
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              Motion
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              all that which hath been written of the
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              alteration not onely of Bodies, but of our Minds alſo; and
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              in ſum, this ample matter of
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              Motion
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              is ſo extended and di­
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              lated, that there are few things which fall under mans no­
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              tice, which are not conjoyned with
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              Motion,
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              or at leaſt de­
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              pending thereupon, or to the knowledge thereof directed;
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              and of almoſt every of them, there hath been written and
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              compoſed by ſublime wits, learned Treatiſes and Inſtructions. </s>
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