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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                <pb o="415" rhead="EPISTOL AE." n="427" file="0427" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/163127KK/pageimg/0427"/>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4983" xml:space="preserve">Ariſtoteles circa finem primi capitis libri de ſenſu ait mediante viſu, magis
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                  quolibet alio ſenſu, nos percipere ſenſibilia communia. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4984" xml:space="preserve">Vbi eundem per ſe, &
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                  non per accidens magis neceſſarium eſſe quam auditum, tam in ijs quæ ad victum,
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                  quam in ijs quæ ad ſcientiam pertinent eſſe aſſerit, quia auditus intellectui confert
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                  per accidens. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4985" xml:space="preserve">Vide etiam quod idem ſcribit primo metaphyſicorum. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4986" xml:space="preserve">Et ſi ad ali-
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                  quid perfectè cognoſcendum, oculo ſeſe nobis offerrent ea omnia obiecta, quorum
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                  ſpecies in imaginatiua formamus, ipſa imaginatiua non egeremus. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4987" xml:space="preserve">Sed quia hoc
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                  fieri non poteſt, hunc
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                  imaginatiuè, ſeu memoriæ ad conſeruandam imagi
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                  nem omnium obiectorum ſenſibilium nobis dedit natura, vt ope diſcurſus
                    <reg norm="intellectus" type="simple">intellectꝰ</reg>
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                  circa dictas imagines, rerum veritatem venari poſſimus. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4988" xml:space="preserve">Sed vt ad propoſitum re-
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                  deamus, beneficio oculi animal liberum eſt, cum ſine ipſo locum mutare nequeat,
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                  vt ſit tutum. tenebræ,
                    <reg norm="priuatioque" type="simple">priuatioq́;</reg>
                  viſus ſunt ferè vnum, & idem. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4989" xml:space="preserve">Neque vllus eſt@ſen-
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                  ſus, qui ſit magis ſimilis intellectui quam viſus: </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4990" xml:space="preserve">neque alij ſenſus habent obiecta vi-
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                  ciſſim communia, quæ non ſint etiam oculo communia, ſed inter oculum, & quem
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                  libet alium ex ſenſibus, inuenientur quidem obiecta communia, quæ cum alijs non
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                  communicabunt, vt inter oculum & tactum, figura, acutum, obtuſum, & ſimilia,
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                  quæ alijs ſenſibus non percipiuntur. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4991" xml:space="preserve">Mediante viſu, & auditu etiam,
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                  tur variæ diſtantiæ,
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                  obiectorum, nec non proportiones, & alia quę ab alijs ſen-
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                  ſibus non compræhenduntur. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4992" xml:space="preserve">Multa obiecta deinde ſunt ſubiecta guſtatui, quę alijs
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                  accidentibus prędita ſunt, vnde cum fuerint ſemel deguſtata, talia, qualia ſunt ab o-
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                  culo percipiuntur, quod nullus ex alijs ſenſibus præſtabit. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4993" xml:space="preserve">Idem de obiectis odora-
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                  tus dico. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4994" xml:space="preserve">Senſuum nullus eſt qui maiorem ſimilitudinem gerat cum vigilia & cum
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                  vita, quam viſus, neque aliquid eſt, quod magis repræſentet imaginem ſomni, &
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                  mortis, quàm cęcitas.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4995" xml:space="preserve">Qui ſibi oculos eruit vt melius ſpecularetur maxima ſtultitia prius obcęcatus fuit
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                  quia ſoni magis impediunt ſpeculationem quàm lumina, imò qui commodè vult
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                  contemplari, quantum plus poteſt nititur longius eſſe ab omni ſtrepitu, magis quàm
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                  à locis luminoſis, & animal magis lætatur lumine quam ſono: </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4996" xml:space="preserve">& ad ſpeculationem
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                  nos magis inuitat harmonia luminum variorum colorum & figurarum, quàm har-
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                  monia ſonorum, præterquam quod inſtrumentum viſus totius corporis partium eſt
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                  pulcherrima, & in eminentiori loco locata, ſi de inſtrumentis ſenſuum loquamur, &
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                  veluti fineſtræ animæ. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4997" xml:space="preserve">Et ſi Ariſtoteles dicat oculos & aures in vno
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                  orbe
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                  exiſtere, volens inferre quod in eodem æquilibrio ſint æqualiter alta non ita ſe ha-
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                  bet, quia (ſi de homine loquamur) oculus eſt altior aure. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4998" xml:space="preserve">Beneficio huius ſenſus, eo
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                  rum quæ abſunt, & longo iam tempore ſunt mortui, animi ſenſa, & conceptus intel-
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                  ligimus, neque alia ratione rerum omnium memoria ſeruari poteſt. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s4999" xml:space="preserve">Si cabala un-
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                  quam vera fuit, nulla alia ratione eſt deleta, quam quia alicuius ſigni viſibilis medio
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                  conſeruata non fuerit, & quæcunque non ſcribuntur, ideſt oculo non
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                  parum durant cito obliuioni
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                  . </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s5000" xml:space="preserve">In maiori ſemper pretio fuit pictura
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                  muſi-
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                  ca: </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s5001" xml:space="preserve">obiectis viſibilibus magis quam ijs quæ ſub auditu cadunt, affectus animi,
                    <reg norm="atque" type="simple">atq;</reg>
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                  alia quælibet res naturalis exprimi poſſunt. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s5002" xml:space="preserve">Aegyptij volentes ſignificare Deum,
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                  oculi medio id præſtabant.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s5003" xml:space="preserve">Oculus, reſpectu aliorum inſtrumentorum ſenſuum, eſt quaſi epicyclus animæ,
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                  neque defuit qui crederet oculum eſſe principem animi partem.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s5004" xml:space="preserve">Oculus à Sole, & à Luna ita dependet, vt qui tempore defectus cuiuslibet lumi-
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                  naris naſcitur, ſtatim cæcus euadat, neque aliqua eſt corporis pars in qua magis ap- </s>
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