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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                  noctium vernale proximè ſequitur; </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2545" xml:space="preserve">verum etiam quò anni principium emendetur,
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                  ſcilicet vt ad ſuum verum principium reuocetur annus. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2546" xml:space="preserve">Nempè ad diem hyemalis
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                  ſolſtitij, quæ prima Ianuarij dies eſſe debet.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2547" xml:space="preserve">Deinde, tot dierum menſes conſtituantur, quot hac noſtra tempeſtate, ſol in ipſis
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                  Zodiaci ſignis verſatur. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2548" xml:space="preserve">Poſtremò, quædam feſta immobilia in alios dies
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                  tur,
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                  aptis temporibus: </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2549" xml:space="preserve">quod à
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                  mente diſſentire minimè vide-
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                  tur. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2550" xml:space="preserve">cum non magis de feſtis mobilibus quam immobilibus agat, imo etiam planè
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                  æquum ſit, vt habeatur vtrorunque ratio, quò ſtatutis temporibus celebrentur.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2551" xml:space="preserve">Vt autem ad primam Ianuarij
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                  verum principium anni reuocetur; </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2552" xml:space="preserve">cenſerem
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                  ex eo anno, quem corrigere voluerimus, non modò dies .10. eſſe detrahendos,
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                  etiam vnum & uiginti, illo ipſo anno; </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2553" xml:space="preserve">
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                  duplici via; </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2554" xml:space="preserve">aut partiendo menſes, atque
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                  ex illis demendo eos dies, qui minus ad rem hanc facere videbuntur, ac tum rema-
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                  neat annus trecentorum quadraginta quatuor dierum ita vt decem menſes ſint die.
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2555" xml:space="preserve">rum duorum ſpatio ſolito breuiores, alter menſis vno deficiat: </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2556" xml:space="preserve">aut conſtituto
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                    bri</reg>
                  dicti anni dierum decem, dies autem ille, qui decimum
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                  ſequitur, ſit &
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                  primus Ianuarij, & dies ſolſtitij ob quam cauſam exiſtimarem conſultiſſimum eiuſ
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                  modi annum eſſe mileſimum quingenteſimum ſeptuageſimum nonum. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2557" xml:space="preserve">Quo quam
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                  primum
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                  . </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2558" xml:space="preserve">Pontifex max. ſuis temporibus huius correctionis manifeſtos effe-
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                  ctus experiri & perpendere, atque diſpoſitionem anni non ſolum principio, ſed
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                    teris</reg>
                  partibus ſuis in vniuerſum tam concinnè
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                  reſpondere, & aſtrorum moti-
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                  bus, & Eccleſiæ ſacroſanctæ ſanctionibus, ſe authore lætari poſſit.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2559" xml:space="preserve">Omnino
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                  iudico detrahendos eſſe vnum & viginti dies elapſi erroris: </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2560" xml:space="preserve">non de
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                  cem tantum, quo hyemmalis conuerſio ad initium Ianuarij reuocetur; </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2561" xml:space="preserve">idq́ue ne à
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                  communi opinione de ipſo anni principio veritas diſcrepet, quæ principium Ianua-
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                  rij, anni principium arbitratur. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2562" xml:space="preserve">etenim cum credant omnes
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                  à Ianuario inchoa-
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                  ri, veritas autem ipſa ſic ſe habeat, vt nobis ſeptentrionalibus tunc inchoet annus,
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                  cum ad nos Sol accedere incipit, aut dies augetur; </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2563" xml:space="preserve">non conuenit principia eiuſmo-
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                  di ſeparata & diſcrepantia eſſe. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2564" xml:space="preserve">Et hanc fuiſſe Numæ Pompilio mentem credibile
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                  eſt, qui ad annum Romuli decem menſium, Ianuarium & Februarium addidit, vt
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                  principium Ianuarij principium eſſet anni: </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2565" xml:space="preserve">cuius rei argumentum eſſe poteſt, quod
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                  C. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2566" xml:space="preserve">Iulij Cæſaris temporibus (qui multis annis poſt Numam fuit)
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                  vti Pont. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2567" xml:space="preserve">Max.
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2568" xml:space="preserve">corrigendorum feſtorum curam ſuſcepit hyemale ſolſtitium per aliquot dies retro-
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                  ceſſerat; </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2569" xml:space="preserve">nec mirum tamen eſſet, ſi Numæ temporibus, exactè prima Ianuarij die non
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                  fuiſſet hyemale ſolſtitium, adhuc pubeſcente in Italia Aſtronomia.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2570" xml:space="preserve">Huiuſmodi autem correctio dierum .21. poſt .2300. annos à Numa, quæ ſit per-
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                  petuo ſeruitura, media emendatione ea, quæ de tribus centeſimis annis communi-
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                  bus, & quarto intercalari, ſuperius propoſita fuit, non repudianda ei videatur, qui
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                  ſciet, qua ratione Numæ Pompilij annus corrigeretur, octauo quoque anno, inter-
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                  calando annum vltimum medijs diebus .90. quo prima dies Ianuarij ad verum prin
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                  cipium anni, hoc eſt hyemale ſolſtitium, reduceretur.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2571" xml:space="preserve">Alio item argumento cuique patere poteſt, priſcos Romanos ſtatuiſſe annum ab
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                  hyemali ſolſtitio initium ſumere, vt inquit Ouidius primo Faſtorum.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2572" xml:space="preserve">Bruma noui prima eſt,
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                  nouiſſima Solis.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2573" xml:space="preserve">Principium capiunt Phębus, & annus idem.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2574" xml:space="preserve">co quod diem naturalem à medio noctis inchoarent, ab eo puncto ſcilicet, quo Sol
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                  ad noſtrum hemiſpherium accedere incipit.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s2575" xml:space="preserve">Tribuebant igitur veteres diei, atque anno principium ab eo puncto, quo Sol </s>
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