Viviani, Vincenzo, De maximis et minimis, geometrica divinatio : in qvintvm Conicorvm Apollonii Pergaei

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            cuius illa inter innumeras magnanimo in pectore cura adoleſcit, noui
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            inſtar Triptolemi ſparſis literarum, ac beneficientiæ ſeminibus, morta-
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            le genus quotidre altiùs demereri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s129" xml:space="preserve">Indicante autem Maronita adeſſe
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            Romæ, vbi per Æſtatem agere Borellus decreuerat, Abrahamum Ec-
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            chellenſem natione Arabem, linguarum verò orientalium peritia op-
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            pidò celebrem, neq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s130" xml:space="preserve">Matheſeos ignarum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s131" xml:space="preserve">tunc idem Borellus (quan-
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            doque SERENISS. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s132" xml:space="preserve">MAGNODVCI placuiſſet, APOLLONIVM,
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            ac reliqua ſcripta fidei ſuæ committere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s133" xml:space="preserve">Abrahamo ocium foret in-
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            terpretandi) ſuam vltrò operam in rebus geometricis adhibere polli-
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            citus eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s134" xml:space="preserve">Satis ſuperque ſe adprobauerat Abrahami peritia, qui lin-
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            guarum orientalium Doctor, tunc Romæ, olim in Piſano Lyceo me-
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            ruerat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s135" xml:space="preserve">Nec minus ſpectata erat ſuæ SERENISSIMÆ CELSITV-
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            DINI Borelli præſtantia in geometricis, ac philoſophicis ſtudijs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s137" xml:space="preserve">Non cunctanter ergo SERENISS. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s138" xml:space="preserve">MAGNVSDVX ſcripta Borel-
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            lo credidit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s139" xml:space="preserve">qua ſolet auguſta ſapientia bonas artes tutari, ac foue-
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            re, operis aggreſſionem nutu firmat, ſuique SERENISSIMI NO-
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            MINIS auſpicio, ac maieſtate fundari permittit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s141" xml:space="preserve">Hæc omnia acta ſunt intra dies octo, vel minus, quibus Borellus
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            Florentiæ permanſit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s142" xml:space="preserve">Ego hinc procul, cum inſigne hoc cemelium
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            Reipublicæ literariæ detectum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s143" xml:space="preserve">Reuerſo, ſeduli Amici ſtatim nun-
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            ciant, ac Borellus deinceps rem totam mihi ore confirmat, paulò an-
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            te quàm peteret Romam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s144" xml:space="preserve">Exultabam animo, ac plenus gaudij geſtie-
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            bam, fortunatum verè me ſentiens, quod hac ætate ſpirarem, cum
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            magnus Geometriæ ſpiritus redderetur hoc reperto theſauro.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s146" xml:space="preserve">Nec propterea ceſſabant Amici, quibus res meę cordi erant, horta-
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            tiones, ac ſtimulos ſubdere, vt hanc ſaltem de MAXIMIS, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s147" xml:space="preserve">MINI-
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            MIS lucubrationem publici iuris facerem; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s148" xml:space="preserve">de qua actum eſſe omnino
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            videbam, tunc iam repertis APOLLONII libris; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s149" xml:space="preserve">atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s150" xml:space="preserve">animum ab ea
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            prorſus auerteram tineis iam pertundenda, aut Veneris Marito do-
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            nanda. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s151" xml:space="preserve">Rarò interim, aut nunquam auditum fatebantur, mihi ſanè
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            (vt illis videbatur) improſperum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s152" xml:space="preserve">non modò librum per duodecim
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            iam ſecula conſepultum reuiuiſci me viuo, qui eidem aliquatenus ſup-
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            plendo non indiligenter vacaueram; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s153" xml:space="preserve">ſed & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s154" xml:space="preserve">illud damnabant qualeſ-
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            cunque hos labores meos delituiſſe, qui diu pridem vulgari, ante
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            APOLLONIVM repertum, ac ſtudioſorum manibus teri potuiſſent.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s155" xml:space="preserve">Acriùs inquam inſtare Amici, neque incitamenta remittere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s156" xml:space="preserve">vno ore
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            adhortari, vt properatò colligerem, diſponerem, meorumque edi-
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            tionem anteuerterem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s157" xml:space="preserve">Non deerant autem illis ſpecioſa acumina ad
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            impellendum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s158" xml:space="preserve">Quod enim ad me; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s159" xml:space="preserve">priùs fuiſſe hæc excogitata, </s>
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