Benedetti, Giovanni Battista de, Io. Baptistae Benedicti ... Diversarvm specvlationvm mathematicarum, et physicarum liber : quarum seriem sequens pagina indicabit ; [annotated and critiqued by Guidobaldo Del Monte]
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            <head xml:id="echoid-head14" xml:space="preserve">AD LECTOREM</head>
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                <emph style="sc">CVm</emph>
              Varijs temporibus permulta in diuerſis
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              diſciplinis contemplatus ſim, partim à præ-
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              ſtantibus viris patronis ac amicis meis exci-
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              tatus, quiſuper eis ſententiam meam exquire-
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              bant, partim, abingenito mihi deſiderio, ra-
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              tionem, & cauſam eorum percipiendi, com-
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              mittendum non putaui, quin qualiacunque
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              meaſcripta in illis ſcientijs, ſtudioſis impartirer,
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              non dubitans quin illis aliquid commodi atque vtilitatis allatura ſint, prę
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              ſertim cum in eiuſmodi quæſtionibus inueſtigandis atque perpendendis,
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              nemo ( quod ſciam ) hactenus elaborauerit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s15" xml:space="preserve">Nihil enim his libris à me
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              traditum eſt, quod aut legiſſe, aut ab alijs audiuiſſe meminerim, nam ſi
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              aliena attigi, ea, aut cum aliqua differentia demonſtrationis, aut diluci-
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              dius ſcripſi, quod ſi forte alius eadem tradidit, aut eius lucubrationes ad
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              me non peruenerunt, aut earum perlectionis memoria excidit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s16" xml:space="preserve">Vtenim
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              etiam Ariſtoteles ipſe ſenſit facilè fieri poteſt, vt pluribus, eædem opinio-
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              nes in mentem veniant. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17" xml:space="preserve">Immo multa ſcribenti euenire poteſt, vt cum
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              iamdiu aliquid ſcripſerit, iam oblitus, idem repetat, quod mihi etiam
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              nonnunquam accidit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s18" xml:space="preserve">In his autemlibris non ſuſcepi munus integræ ali
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              cuius ſcientiæ tradendæ, ne, quæ abalijs iam tradita ſunt, ipſe inutiliter re
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              peterem, mihiq́ue viderer exalienis laboribus laudem voluiſſe comparare.
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19" xml:space="preserve">Singularum enim ſcientiarum volumina, iam ab alijs collecta, at-
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              que in ordinemſunt digeſta, & ſi pauciſſimi ſint libri quorum omnes
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              ſententiæ, omniaq́ue inuenta vnius ſint authoris, excipio Archime-
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              dis volumina. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s20" xml:space="preserve">Cumque multi ſint, qui vel vnam rem à ſe inuentam
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              in publicum proferre non dubitent, multo magis mihi qui multa ex-
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              cogitaui, & ſi inter ſe hætereogenea, atque vtcunque expreſſa, idem
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              licere ſum arbitratus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s21" xml:space="preserve">In his autem meditandis, ex Arithmeticis autho-
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              ribus quos inſpexi, præcipuus fuit Nicolaus Tartalea, quippe quem fe-
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              rè omnia ab alijs ſcripta collegiſſe conſtat, nec alios ex præcipuis, quos le-
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              gere potui omittendos duxi, inter quos ſunt Hieronymus Cardanus, Mi-
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              chael Stifelius, Gemma Friſius, Ioannes Nouiomagus, Cuthebertus
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              Tonſtallus,
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              huiuſinodi. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s22" xml:space="preserve">Quorundam tamen volumina illorum
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              qui à Tartalea citantur, vt Leonardi Piſani, Proſdocimi, Ioannis Infor-
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              tunati, Fratris Lucæ, Petri Borgi, aliorumq́ue aliquot inſpiciendorum, </s>
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