Fabri, Honoré, Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, 1665

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              torum vel pedum circiter 32. vt vir erat Totricellus profundi ratiocinij,
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              illico prædixit, fore vt Mercurius attolli non poſſet ſupra altitudinem
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              pedum 2 3/4 vel 1/3 circiter; quod cùm in fiſtula vitrea probaſſet; provt præ­
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              dixerat, ſucceſſit eventus; in hunc porrò modum probavit; Sit vas ABG,
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              in quo ſit Mercurius EBF, ſit fiſtula vitrea BCD probè clauſa in D,
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              apertain B, repleatur Mercurio, tum admoto preſſè digito in B, immerga­
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              tur extremitas B intra Mercurium, ſtatutaque fiſtula in perpendiculari ſitu
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              ſubducatur digitus ex B, deſcendit Mercurius, nullo aëre ſubeunte, ita
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              tamen, vt ſegmentam extantis Mercurij CI; ſive longior ſit fiſtula, ſive
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              brevior, ſit ſemper pedum 2. 1/4 circiter, ſive tubus anguſtior ſit, ſive
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              Chryſocom.
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              <s id="s.002166"> Huius experimenti primum inventorem & auctorem P. </s>
              <s id="s.002167">Va­
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              lerianum Magnum fuiſſe, accepi, immo hic, ni fallor, libellum de hoc ar­
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              gumento in lucem edidit, in quo hoc idem atteſtatur, quantum ſcilicet
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              meminiſſe poſſum. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.002169"> Nihil profectò magis à veritate alienum; Torricellus haud
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              dubiè, & citra omnem controverſiam, primus inventor fuit; immo alij
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              multi hoc idem argumentum ante Valerianum tractarunt; cujus ratio, &
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              cauſa phyſica vtinam æquè facilè & certo ſtatui à nobis poſſet, atque in­
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              ventor; nempe res mihi difficillima eſſe videtur, ſtatuere, quid occupet ſe­
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              gmentum illud fiſtulæ CD, quod vacuum eſſe videtur; & qua vi alterum
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              IC ſupra ſuperficiem EF, ſuſtineatur; in his duobus enucleandis, tua
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              deſudabit, opinor, induſtria, Antime; vtinam, de quo valde dubito,
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              fœliciter. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.002171"> Tentabo ſaltem, idque vnum operæ pretium erit, quod nec in
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              mea, nec in alia cujuſpiam hypotheſi, difficultatem, ſi quæ fortè inſit, diſ­
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              ſimulaturus ſim. </s>
              <s id="s.002172">Ab illa autem initium duco, quæ & Torricelli & mul­
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              torum hodie num eſt, in qua ſcilicet, præfatum experimentum in hunc </s>
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