Heron <Alexandrinus>, Heronis Alexandrini spiritalium liber

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            minatum in aëre, & </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s51" xml:space="preserve">igne, aliisque corporibus;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s52" xml:space="preserve">quibus maxime aſſentiri convenit, ex iis enim, quæ appa-
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            rent, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s53" xml:space="preserve">ſub ſenſum cadunt, in ſequentibus hoc ita eſſe de-
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            monſtrabitur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s54" xml:space="preserve">Nam vaſa, quæ multis vacua videntur, non
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            ſunt vacua, ut putant, ſed aëre plena. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s55" xml:space="preserve">Aër autem, ut placet
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            iis, qui de natura tractant, ex parvis, levibusque corporibus
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            conſtat, nobis plerumque non apparentibus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s56" xml:space="preserve">Etenim ſi in
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            vas quod vacuum videtur quisaquam infundat, quantum
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            aquæ in vas ingredietur, tantundem aëris excedet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s57" xml:space="preserve">Quod
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            autem dictum eſt, ex hoc intelligere quiſpiam poteſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s58" xml:space="preserve">Nam
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            ſi vas, quod vacuum videtur quis inverſum in aquam de-
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            preſſerit, rectumque ſervarit, aqua in ipſum non ingredie-
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            tur, quamvis totum occultatum fuerit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s59" xml:space="preserve">Itaque perſpicuum
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            eſt, aërem, cum corpus exiſtat, non permittere aquam ingre-
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            di, propterea, quod totus, qui in vaſe locus eo repletus eſt. </s>
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            Si igitur vaſis fundum quis perforet, aqua quidem per os in
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            ipſum ingredietur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s61" xml:space="preserve">aër vero per foramen exibit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s62" xml:space="preserve">Rurſus
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            antequam perforetur fundum, ſi quis rectum vas ex aqua
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            extulerit, convertens videbit totam interiorem ejus ſuper-
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            ficiem ab humido vacuam, atque puram eſſe, quemadmo-
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            dum erat priuſquam demergeretur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s63" xml:space="preserve">Quare aërem corpus
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            eſſe exiſtimandum eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s64" xml:space="preserve">Fit autem ſpiritus cum movetur,
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            nihil cnim aliud eſt ſpiritus, niſi motus aër, itaque perfora-
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            to vaſe ad fundum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s65" xml:space="preserve">aqua ingrediente, ſi quis foramini
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            manum opponat, ſentiet ſpiritum ex vaſe excedentem. </s>
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            Hoc autem non eſt aliud niſi aër ab aqua expulſus, non igi-
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            tur arbitrandum eſt in his, quæ ſunt, vacui naturam quan-
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            dam coacervatam ipſam per ſe ipſam exiſtere, ſed ſecun-
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            dum exiguas partes in aëre, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s67" xml:space="preserve">humido, aliisque corporibus
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            diſſeminatam, niſi fortaſſe quiſpiam credat ſolum adaman-
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            tem vacui natura expertem eſſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s68" xml:space="preserve">quippe qui neque igni-
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            ri, neque rumpi poteſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s69" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s70" xml:space="preserve">percuſſus in incudes & </s>
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            totus ingreditur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s72" xml:space="preserve">Hoc autem ipſi accidit, non quod vacuo
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            careat, ſed ob continuatam denſitatem: </s>
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