Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              ſunt, ſucci ſulphur, lapidis cryſtallus, terræ
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              Lemnia, metalli argentum. </s>
              <s id="s.003492">Compoſitorum
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              autem exempla ſuo loco referam, ne inuti­
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              liter repetere multa cogar. </s>
              <s id="s.003493">Simplicium au­
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              tem neceſſaria exempla fuere, quia non de
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              omnibus primò ſum tractaturus: nam quæ­
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              cunque ſolida manent, perfecta voco, vt
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              metalla & lapides, de quibus poſteriùs di­
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              cturus ſum molliora autem, imperfecta,
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              tum miſta, tum ſuccos, & terras appel­
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              lo, quæ metallica nuncupabo omnia, ad
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              differentiam lapidum & metallorum. </s>
              <s id="s.003494">De
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              metallicis igitur nunc primùm dicere aggre­
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              diar, à terrarum generibus initium ducens.
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              Compoſita
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              corpora 11.
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              ſunt gene­
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              rum.</s>
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              De terrarum
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              diſcrimini­
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              bus.</s>
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              <s id="s.003497">Terrarum itaque genera ſunt, vel colo­
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              ribus vel odore, vel vſu diſtantia. </s>
              <s id="s.003498">De his
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              quæ vſu diſtinguuntur generaliter ſuperius
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              dixemus. </s>
              <s id="s.003499">De aliis autem quæ colore diſtin­
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              guuntur, etiam abſoluta eſt diſputatio: ſu­
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              pereſt vt de vſu quarundam dicamus, tum
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              etiam de odore. </s>
              <s id="s.003500">Odoratæ terræ ſunt, quæ
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              malè olent frequentes. </s>
              <s id="s.003501">Sunt enim omnes quæ
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              olent, metallicis partibus commiſtæ. </s>
              <s id="s.003502">Refert
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              tamen Agricola, Mariæbergi in Saxonia,
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              dum ex argentaria fodina diuorum Sebaſtia­
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              ni & Fabiani, coram Henrico Saxonum
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              Principe erueretur argentum, tam fragran­
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              tem odorem erupiſſe, vt Princeps exclama­
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              uerit, Calecutum adeſſe: eſt enim ea vrbis
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              Indiæ, quæ odorata omnia mittit. </s>
              <s id="s.003503">In Mala­
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              cha quoque orientalis Indiæ portu vaſa fiunt
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              è terra odorata valde, quæ tamen viliſſimo
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              venduntur pretio ob copiam. </s>
              <s id="s.003504">Aut forſan
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              etiam, quia magni omnes odores quantum­
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              cunque boni, rerum tamen quæ eſui aptæ
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              non ſint, cibos reddunt inſuaues, ac quaſi
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              examinant. </s>
              <s id="s.003505">Cibi enim iucundi ſunt proprio
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              odore & moderato: hic ab externo tractus
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              ac euictus exhalat: quò fit vt rem relinquat
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              inſipidam & inſuauem. </s>
              <s id="s.003506">Experiri licet hoc
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              torta in cupreſſi vaſe recondita, vel ſi thus
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              addatur. </s>
              <s id="s.003507">Alia verò gratiam addunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003508">At mali
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              odoris frequentiora ſunt exempla, adeóque
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              odores hi praui ſunt, vt etiam ſæuiant. </s>
              <s id="s.003509">An­
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              næbergi enim in fodina argentea, cui nomen
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              erat Corona roſacea, vt idem refert, duode­
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              cim homines repentè ſunt ſuffocati: vnde
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              relicta eſt magno metu, ne dæmones mali
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              illam inhabitarent: hoc enim illis perſua­
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              ſum, cum ex odore terrarum, aut lapidum
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              hoc contingat: nam receptus in cerebro pro­
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              tinus examinat: mirandum, ſubeſſe plera­
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              que fœda in terræ viſceribus, velut & ani­
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              malium ſtercora. </s>
              <s id="s.003510">Sed non ſolùm fœda, verum
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              & cuiuſcunque generis ſunt materiæ ſub illa
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              varij vſus. </s>
              <s id="s.003511">Vt olim in Britannia ex puteis ter­
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              ra candida effodiebatur, non minus centum
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              paſſibus profundis, ex aqua poſtquam argen­
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              tum detraxiſſes, inſperſi agri adeò fœcundi
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              reddebantur, vt ſemel in vita inſperſiſſe ſuffi­
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              ceret. </s>
              <s id="s.003512">Itaque omnis terra quæ latet, velut &
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              hominum viſcera, alicui vſus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003513">Sed nos ha­
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              rum rerum inquiſitionem, partim ob igno­
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              rantiam, partim ob auaritiam negligere ſole­
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              mus. </s>
              <s id="s.003514">Sunt vbique, dico etiam in vrbibus, ne­
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              dum agris, lapides in terra varij, varijque
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              vſus terrarum genera, tum varij coloris me­
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              tallica pleráque: ſed non in
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              tantùm
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              quærimus. </s>
              <s id="s.003515">Indicio autem eſt ſic eſſe, cum quę
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              olim terræ infœcundæ haberentur, vt Ger­
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              mania, argenti nunc ſit feraciſſima: aliæ de­
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              ſierunt poſtquam feraces fuerant. </s>
              <s id="s.003516">Cauſa eſt,
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              quod cum vbique metalla, & lapides, & ſucci
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              ſint, temporum ſucceſſu terra euaneſcente
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              deteguntur, alia creſcente occultantur, vt re­
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              ctè videatur dixiſſe Anaxagoras, quaſi in om­
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              nibus eſſe omnia, verùm in montibus præter
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              copiam, hoc eſt, vtilitatis, quæ aquæ ad hu­
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              miliora loca, ſi quæ occurrant, facilè deriuan­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.003517">In agris autem aquam quæ ſub terra ma­
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              nat, cùm exigua ſit, exhauriendo ſiccabimus
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              prius, inde muro aut ſaxis loca, ex quibus ma­
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              nat, impediemus atque obſtruemus. </s>
              <s id="s.003518">Siçque
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              cuniculos ad euertenda oppida etiam ſub
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              aqua effodiunt, & foſſas ipſas fodiendo ſub
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              ipſis ſuperant. </s>
              <s id="s.003519">Alio modo per circuitus dedu­
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              cta aqua, vt etiam apud Herodotum Cyrus
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              docetur à Crœſo flumina exinanimus, rurſus
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              tamen in priorem alueum inferius deducen­
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              tes: eodem modo etiam ſub terra fluentes ri­
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              uulos aliò auertere licebit, in eoſdem rurſus
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              deducentes, vt ſic effodere infra aquam poſ­
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              ſimus. </s>
              <s id="s.003520">Sunt & loca humiliora, in quæ tradu­
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              cimus
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              illam, non amplius reducen­
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              tes: quo præſidio in montibus maximè vti
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              conceditur, ob loci altitudinem. </s>
              <s id="s.003521">Nam aqua
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              quæ paſſim ſub terra inuenitur, neque
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                dum</expan>
              profunda, nec æqualis, nec continua exi­
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              ſtit. </s>
              <s id="s.003522">Quòd profunda non ſit, oſtendunt muro­
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              rum fundamenta & ædium, quæ plerunque
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              ad terram quæ ſub aqua eſt, pertingunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003523">Quòd
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              non æqualis ſit altitudinis, diuerſitas profun­
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              ditatis puteorum declarat. </s>
              <s id="s.003524">Quòd non conti­
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              nua, ſed
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              riuulis deriuetur, facilè
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              eſt intelligere, cùm duorum puteorum aquæ
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              vix ſenis paſſibus diſtantium admodum ſa­
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              pore, & ſalubritate diſſideant. </s>
              <s id="s.003525">Deducuntur
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              autem riuuli non recto tramite, ſed & ple­
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              runque tortuoſi, vel ob alterius aquæ occur­
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              ſum, vel ob lapides media in via conſtitutos,
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              vel quia cauitatem quandam in quam com­
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              modius confluant aquæ inuenerunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003526">Ergo ſi
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              ſub ea fodere libeat, liceat (vt dixi) tribus mo­
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              dis, tetráſque diuerſi generis, lapides, metal­
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              la, ſuccos, ac reliqua huiuſmodi inuenire. </s>
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              Terra bene
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              olens.</s>
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              Vaſa omnia
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              iucundi odo­
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              ris qui
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              à cibo ſit
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              alienus, cibos
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              reddunt in­
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              ſuaues.</s>
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              Terra malè
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              olens.</s>
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              Quid ſub
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              terra.</s>
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              Terra Bri­
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              tannica.</s>
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              Dies multa
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              detegit, alia
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              occultat.</s>
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              De aqua
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              ſub terra.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Cuniculi ſub
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              aqua.</s>
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              De aqua
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              quæ ſub ter­
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              ra paſſim,
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              inuenitur.</s>
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              Cur riuuli
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              aquarum
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              obliqui.</s>
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              <s id="s.003537">Sed ad terrarum rurſus vſum deuenio. </s>
              <s id="s.003538">In
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              Valdeburgia Germaniæ, argillæ genus eſt
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              denſum ac pingue, tenuiſſimæque ſubſtan­
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              tiæ, quod nec ignibus læditur, nec liquo­
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              res ſorbet, nec exudat. </s>
              <s id="s.003539">Videntur enim fi­
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              gulinorum vaſorum eſſe hæ quinque laudes,
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              vt ſint leuiſſima, vt non ſorbeant, vt non
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              exudent, vt non facilè frangantur, vt ignibus
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              reſiſtant. </s>
              <s id="s.003540">Mirum quàm parua diuerſitate,
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              quòd vaſa ſua ignibus non frangantur, Flo­
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              rentini in condiendis cibis commodi aſſe­
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              quantur: Mediolanenſes non: fiunt tamen
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              vbique, ſi quis rationem ſciat conficiendi
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              optima, ſcilicet è terra illa quæ ad figulina
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              vaſa pro liquandis metallis conficienda in
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              vſu eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003541">Terra autem illa è lapide metallicam
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              partem continente fit. </s>
              <s id="s.003542">Quis enim dubitet,
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              vaſa quæ ſuſtinent auri & argenti liquati
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              vim,
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              cibis non ſufficere? </s>
              <s id="s.003543">Itaque mi­
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              hi ex tali terra lebetem pro vſu paraui, æter­
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              nam propè rem, niſi concutiatur: nam ab ig­
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              ne nihil patitur. </s>
              <s id="s.003544">Manifeſtum eſt igitur, quòd
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              tenuem oportet eſſe argillam, imò tenuiſ­
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              ſimam, & natura leuem ac pinguem. </s>
              <s id="s.003545">Hoc
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              genus ſi bene ſubigatur, ac diu, vaſa efficit </s>
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