Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 1: Opera mechanica

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            prodeſſe poſſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s501" xml:space="preserve">Tunc verò optimè operam me
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            collocaſſe exiſtimavi, cum in ea incidiſſem, in
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            quibus utilitas cum inveniendi difficultate, ac
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            ſubtilitate aliqua, conjuncta foret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s502" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi com-
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            mendationis nonnihil accerſere muneri noſtro
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            permittitur, ne prorſus indignum tua magnitudi-
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            ne appareat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s503" xml:space="preserve">non alias felicius, quam in hoc Ho-
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            rologii invento, utrumque illud me conſecu-
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            tum eſſe profiteor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s504" xml:space="preserve">Etenim, cum ex parte me-
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            chanicum ſit inventum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s505" xml:space="preserve">ex parte altera, eaque
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            multò præcipua, geometricis principiis conſtet;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s506" xml:space="preserve">id quod ad hanc attinet, non levi conamine,
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            ex intimis artis receſſibus petendum fuit: </s>
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            quidem, ut inter omnia, quæ impenſiore ſtu-
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            dio hactenus pertractaverim, haud dubie pri-
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            mum huic ſpeculationi locum tribuam. </s>
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            nam vero in his ſit utilitas, non eſt quod mul-
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            tis, Rex potentiſſime, oſtendere tibi laborem. </s>
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            Non ſolum enim diutinâ experientiâ comper-
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            tum habes, ex quo regiæ tuæ penetralibus reci-
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            pi meruere Automata noſtra, quantum, æqua-
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            bili horarum demonſtratione, cæteris hujuſmo-
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            di machinationibus excellant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s510" xml:space="preserve">ſed & </s>
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            uſus eorum, quibuſque jam inde à principio
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            mihi deſtinata fuere, non ignoras. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s512" xml:space="preserve">Illos ſcili-
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            cet, quos & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s513" xml:space="preserve">in Cæleſtium obſervationibus, & </s>
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            in Longitudinibus locorum inter navigandum
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            dimetiendis, præſtare apta ſunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s515" xml:space="preserve">Tuo enim
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            juſſu, non ſemel, per mare vecta fuere </s>
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