Monantheuil, Henri de, Aristotelis Mechanica, 1599

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              <s id="id.000077">PRAEFATIO IN
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              MECHANICA ARISTO­
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              TELIS, AD LECTOREM. </s>
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              <s id="id.000078">Philosophari in vno rerum quo­
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              libet genere,
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              lector, res eſt per­
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              quam dulcis. </s>
              <s id="id.000079">Philoſophari appello re­
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              rum eſſentiam, cauſas, proprietates,
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              facultates inueſtigare, & inuento rum
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              quæ vtilia ſunt in opus ad vitæ homi­
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              num fœlicius
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              commoda edu­
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              cere. </s>
              <s id="id.000080">Ita enim demum verè ille erit, vt ait poëta,</s>
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              Fœlix, qui poterit rerum cognoſcere cauſas.
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              <s id="id.000082">Alio qui inutilia, vel vtilia: ſed inutiliter id eſt ſine actio­
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              ne vel opere, quę fines ſunt omnis
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              vtilis,
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              contemplari, & in his philoſophando pluſquam paucis
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              commorari, parum omnino, aut nihil fœlicitatis in hac
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              rerum vniuerſitate habere arbitror. </s>
              <s id="id.000083">Verumenimuerò re­
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              rum quia propemodum eſt infinita multitudo, licet ani­
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              mus hominis ( quod eſt ab Ariſtotele dictum, & ita eſt,
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              poteſtate cognoſcendi, & vaſis inſtar ſpirituales rerum
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              formas recipiendi ) ſit omnia: vix tamen ita quiſquam
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              bene animo conſtitutus fuit, vt ipſum ad omnia genera
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              appellens in ſingulis excelleret, & magnum quid conſe­
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              queretur: vt cuique tamen contigit maior: ita quo que
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              maiora conſecutus eſſe legitur. </s>
              <s id="id.000084">Pythagoram, Hippocra­
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              tem medicum, Platonem, Ariſtotelem, Theophraſtum,
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              Galenum ſi non omnia tenuiſſe: quamplurima certè &
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              aliorum libri, & commentarij ab illis poſteritati relicti
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              copiosè loquuntur. </s>
              <s id="id.000085">Sed quibus non ita magnus vel fuit, </s>
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