Borro, Girolamo, De motu gravium et levium, 1575

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              fortuna nobis dedit, vt ederentur in lucem Xeno­
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              phanes & auditor eius Parmenides, & ambo ſupe­
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              riori naturæ cognitioni non mediocre afferrent in
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              crementum, ac magnus ille Philoſophus Pythago­
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              ras naſceretur, qui multa iiſdem de rebus politius
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                <expan abbr="perfectiuſq.">perfectiuſque</expan>
              proferret; & philoſophiam à prima in­
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              choataque forma ad expletam, atque cumulatam
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              in dies felicius procedentem relinqueret. </s>
              <s id="s.000016">Horum
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              ætati ſucceſsit Anaxagoras, quem, vt conſulto De­
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              mocritum, Empedoclem, & alios omittam, ma­
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              gnum attuliſſe optimis diſciplinis adiumentum, &
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              auxiſſe ſuos diſcipulos ſcientia quadam admira­
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              bili, conſtans eſt omnium opinio. </s>
              <s id="s.000017">Princeps præte­
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              rea ingenii doctrinæque Plato, ac Timæus Pytha­
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              goræ ſententias obſcuras, & incognitas
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              ,
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              ita tamen, vt quæ
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              viro placuerant ea
                <foreign lang="grc">ἐν αἰνίγμασὶ</foreign>
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              auditoribus expendenda proponerent. </s>
              <s id="s.000018">Quare ab
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              ſconditæ illæ ſententiæ difficiles habebant explica
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              tus, & præter quam à benedoctis hominibus non
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              intelligebantur. </s>
              <s id="s.000019">Poſt eos autem, quorum mentio­
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              nem fecimus,
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              alii grauiſsimi viri in hoc præ
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              claro ſtudiorum genere ita verſati ſunt, vt multo
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              acrius quam ſuperiores, & grauius ad philoſophan
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              dum incubuerint: nam diuino munere donatus
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              eſt nobis Ariſtoteles
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              vere princeps,
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              à quo vno, & facilius, & melius, & breui plura didi
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              cit omnis poſteritas, quam à prioribus didicerit.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.000020">Quoniam autem, ſiue maiorum negligentia, ſiue
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              temporum iniuria, ſiue alio quouis malo fato fide­
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              lis illa veterum philoſophorum, qui Ariſtotelem
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              ætate præſtiterunt, doctrina ad hanc vſque diem ia</s>
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