DelMonte, Guidubaldo, Mechanicorvm Liber
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              ramq; mouebo. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.24.0">quod tamen non modò nos
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              vecte tantùm fieri potuiſſe in præſenti libro doce
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              mus; verùm etiam, & omnis antiquitas (quod
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              multis fortaſſè mirabile videbitur) id penitus
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              credidiſſe mihi videtur; quæ Neptuno tri­
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              dentem tanquam vectem attribuit; cuius ope
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              terræ concuſſor vbiq; nuncupatur à poetis. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.12.1.25.0">ad
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              quod etiam aſpiciens celeberrimus noſter poeta
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              Neptunum inducit iſta machina ſyrtes, quò ma­
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              gis apparerent Troianis, ſubleuantem. </s>
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              <s id="id.2.1.1.13.1.1.0">“Leuat ipſe tridenti
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              & vaſtas aperit ſyrtes.” </s>
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              <s id="id.2.1.1.14.1.1.0">Mechanici præterea fuerunt Heron, Cteſibius,
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              & Pappus, qui licet ad mechanicæ apicem, perin­
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              de atq; Archimedes, euecti fortaſſè minimè ſint;
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              mechanicam tamen facultatem egregiè percal­
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              luerunt; taleſq; fuerunt, & præſertim Pappus, vt
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              eum me ducem ſequentem nemo (vt opinor) cul
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              pauerit. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.14.1.2.0">quod & propterea libentius feci, quòd
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              nè latum quidem vnguem ab Archimedeis prin­
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              cipijs Pappus recedat. </s>
              <s id="id.2.1.1.14.1.3.0">ego enim in hac præſertim
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              facultate Archimedis veſtigijs hærere ſemper vo
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              lui: & licet eius lucubrationes ad
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              per­</s>
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