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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                  vt anni directionum correſpondeant gradibus æquatoris. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3044" xml:space="preserve">Et præterea in ephe
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                  meridibus videntur certè motus & aſpectus luminarium, quamuis inſit
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                  mi
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                  nutorum. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3045" xml:space="preserve">Nam non differunt gradibus, præter ſitum parum diſtantem à vero om-
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                  nium planetarum, quorum cognitio in cœlo, quamuis circa eorum locum error eſ-
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                  ſet gra .10. tamen in hoc prodeſſet, & tempus aſpectus eorum, etſinon diei præcisè,
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                  quia influentia eiuſmodi a ſpectuum, præterquam Lunæ durat multis diebus, & non
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                  vno tantum. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3046" xml:space="preserve">præterquam quod ipſæ ephemerides
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                  nobis tempus
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                  ,
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                  in quo certènon differunt nec diebus nec multis horis, & itidem multa alia.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3047" xml:space="preserve">Non ſunt igitur contemnendæ ephemerides, nec habendæ pro re nullius pretij,
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                  vt hic ait.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3048" xml:space="preserve">Quod attinet ad illa alia, quæ hic vocat errores ephemeridum, tam de apparenti
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                  coniunctione Saturni cum Ioue in ſignis alterius triplicitatis prius quam peręgerit
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                  præcedentem, quam de faciendo currere
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                  , & de retinendo Ioue, de
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                  do Marte .6. aut .7. menſibus in vno ſigno, de Marte, & Ioue non coeuntibus ſingu-
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                  lis .24. annis in quolibet ſigno, & cius generis alia, minime verum eſt quod ſint er-
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                  rores, quamuis huic præbuerint occaſionem toties errandi.</s>
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3049" xml:space="preserve">Comparatio poſtea inter eius calculos ſumptos partim ex tabulis Iunctini, & par
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                  tim ex ephemeridibus Stadij tan quam calculis Copernici, & calculos figurarum ſu-
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                  per eis poſitarum ſupputatarum à diuerſis per ephemeridas Alfonſinas, etiam pro-
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                  poſita ab eo eſt ad oſtendendum magnam & monſtruoſam differentiam, vt ait cap
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                    2.</num>
                  vbi miratur, quod cum ex communi ſententia calculi Copernici meliores ſint, cal
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                  culatores dictarum figurarum potius eos ſumpſerint à tabulis Alfonſi, quam Coper
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                  nici. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3050" xml:space="preserve">Quæ admiratio quam aliena ſit, conſiderandum permittam cuiuis intelligen-
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                  ti harum ſacultatum, cum ſæpe accidere poſſit. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3051" xml:space="preserve">vt cum aliquis velit ſcire ſolum vni
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                  uerſalia alicuius geneſis, ſiue natiuitatis, cum non inueniantur ephemerides Coper-
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                  nici, ſed tantum Alfonſi, calculator vtatur tantum ephemeridibus, quas inuenit,
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                  cauſa vitandi tædij calculi tabularum, qui magni laboris eſt, pręcipuè in tabulis Pru
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                  tenicis Reinoldi. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3052" xml:space="preserve">tum quia ſuperflua ei eſt ſumma ſubtilitas, cum non curet laborare
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                  circa directiones vt
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                  eſt pro
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                  figura ab hoc propoſita, quæ erat anni .1551
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                  quo non
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                  ephemerides Copernicæ, quæ non editæ ſunt ante annum
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                  1554. præter quam quod ille nobilis vir pro quo ſupputata fuit dicta ſecunda natiui
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                  tas dubitabat de anno, vt hic ſimiliter ſcit. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3053" xml:space="preserve">quare potuiſſet perdi tempus, & labor, ſi
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                  ſupputata fuiſſet per tabulas Reinoldi, nam Iunctini tabulæ nondum editæ fuerant.
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                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3054" xml:space="preserve">Calculus poſtea ſeptimæ figuræ, qui erat reuolutio dictæ ſecundæ natiuitatis,
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                  de cauſis non factus eſt per tabulas prutenicas, primum, quia eius anni .1580. non
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                  inueniebantur amplius ephemerides Copernicæ. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3055" xml:space="preserve">Ephemerides enim Stadij
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                    cipiẽtes</reg>
                  ab ann .1554.
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                  ann .1576. &
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                  poſtea quæ perueniunt vſque
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                  ad annum .1600. non peruenere ad manus calculatoris ante hunc annum .1581. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3056" xml:space="preserve">Al-
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                  tera ratio eſt, quia in reuolutionibus, quoniam in eis non fiunt directiones, non po-
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                  nuntur à doctis, ne minuta quidem. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3057" xml:space="preserve">quare non ſolum non curant eas ſupputare per
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                  tabulas, ſed nec exquiſitè quidem per ephemeridas. </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3058" xml:space="preserve">Calculi poſtea ab hoc ſumpti
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                  ex tabulis Iunctini, & poſiti ſub dicta ſecunda figura, adeò rectè facti ſunt, vt cum ſe
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                  cundum ip ſas tabulas oporteat Saturnum eſſe circa .32. minutum gradus .23. Aqua-
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                  rij, ipſe eum ſcribat in gra .11. mi .3. dicti ſigni. Iupiter ſimiliter qui ſecundum dictas
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                  tabulas inuenitur circa finem gradus .5. Cancri, ab eo ponitur in min .28. gra .19. eiuſ
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                  dem. ex quibus planetis Saturnus in figura poſitus eſt in min .27. grad .23. Arietis, Iu
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                  piter autem in min .3. gra .6. Cancri, </s>
                  <s xml:id="echoid-s3059" xml:space="preserve">Vnde ſecun dum verum, inter calculum Alfon­ </s>
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