DelMonte, Guidubaldo, Mechanicorvm Liber

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        <front>
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              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.16.0">
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              da, niſi fortè velimus tam nobilis diſciplinæ con
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              templationem quidem ocioſam laudare; fructum
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              verò, & vſum, artiſq; finem improbare. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.17.0">ſed præ
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              omnibus mathematicis vnus Archimedes ore
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              laudandus eſt pleniore, quem voluit Deus in me­
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              chanicis velut ideam ſingularem eſſe, quam om­
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              nes earum ſtudioſi ad imitandum ſibi propone­
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              rent. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.18.0">is enim Cœleſtem globum exiguo admo­
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              dum, fragili què vitreo orbe concluſum ita efin­
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              xit, ſimulatis aſtris viuum naturæ opus, ac iura
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              poli motibus certis adeò præ ſe ferentibus; vt
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              æmula naturæ manus tale de ſe encomium ſit
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              promerita: ſic manus naturam, vt natura ma­
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              num ipſa immitata putetur. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.19.0">is poliſpaſtu manu
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              leua, & ſola, quinquies millenum modiorum
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              pondus attraxit. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.20.0">nauem in ſiccum litus eductam,
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              ac grauius oneratam ſolus machinis ſuis ad ſe
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              perindè pertraxit, ac ſi in mari remis, veliſuè
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              impulſa moueretur,
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              & poſtea in litore (quod
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              omnes Siciliæ vires non potuerunt) in mare de­
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              duxit. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.21.0">ab iſto etiam ea extiterunt bellica tor­
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              menta, quibus Syracuſæ aduerſus Marcellum
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              ita defenſæ ſunt, vt paſſim eorum machinator
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              Briareus, & centimanus à Romanis appellare­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.22.0">demum hac arte confiſus eò proceſſit au­
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              daciæ, vt eam vocem naturæ legibus adeò re­
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              pugnantem protulerit. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.23.0">Da mihi, vbi ſiſtam, ter</s>
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          </section>
        </front>
      </text>
    </archimedes>
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