Fabri, Honoré, Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, 1665
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              explicentur nondum ſtatui poſſe, riſi plures & magis accuratæ Obſerva­
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              tiones fiant. </s>
              <s id="s.000342">Porrò cum Venus proximè ad terram accedat, & circa hori-
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              zontem vt plurimum Obſervetur, non eſt dubium, quin refractio eius La­
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              titudinem non parum mutet, ac proinde valde difficile ſit, certam regu­
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              lam ex Obſervationibus, quæ tot fallaciis oculorum ſubjiciuntur ſtatuere;
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              ſed ne ſim prolixior, & ſaltem extra chorum, hæc omitto, cùm manifeſtè
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              conſtet, in qualibet hypotheſi ; hæc valde difficilè explicari; in ea tamen,
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              quam indicavi longè faciliùs. </s>
              <s id="s.000343">De Mercurio nihil dico, quia eadem pro
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              illo faciunt, quæ de Venere diximus, niſi quòd ſuas revolutiones citiùs
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              abſolvit, minuſque digreditur à Sole, quàm Venus; ac proinde illius Ob­
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              ſervationes longè difficiliores. </s>
              <s id="s.000344">De diverſis phaſibus horum Planetarum
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              nihil etiam dico; quia non dubitas; opinor, quin facillimè citra veſtram
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              hypotheſim explicentur: quare his peractis, vide quæſo, vtrùm alia pro
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              tua hypotheſi ſuppetant argumenta. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000346"> Omiſſis Aſtronomis, quæ haud dubiè ſatis feliciter ſolviſti,
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              alia duo ſunt, quæ magnum noſtræ hypotheſi plauſum pepererunt, pri­
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              mùm petitur à maris æſtu, alterum à Magnete: quod ad primum ſpectat,
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              ſupponimus, Terram moveri motu quodam mixto ex motu orbis & cen­
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              tri, quaſi ad inſtar rotæ in plano, vt iam ſupra inſinuaſti, ac proinde par­
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              tes illius inæquali motu ferri, alias tardiùs, alias velociùs. </s>
              <s id="s.000347">Suppono præ­
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              tereà aquam in vaſe, ſeu cymba vectam, vbi cymba motum remittit, ex­
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              currere versùs illam partem, in quam cymba tendit; in oppoſitam verò,
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              vbi cymba motum accelerat, cogita quæſo aquam Occani, quaſi in vaſtiſ­
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              ſima concha, à Globo Terræ delatam & circumactam, ſed dicto motu
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              inæquali, haud dubiè vbi motus acceleratur, aqua versù; Occaſum ex­
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              currit, vbi remittitur, versùs Ortum: En tibi germanam cauſam æſtus
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              marini, quæ certè, vt cum noſtra hypotheſi optimè conſentit, ita in aliis
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              explicari non poteſt. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.000349"> Negare non poſſum, quin hoc fuerit ingenioſum inventum,
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              fictum tamen & commentitium. </s>
              <s id="s.000350">Primo enim ita æſtus diurnus ſuas pe­
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              riodos metitur, vt ad motum Lunæ dumtaxat, diurnum ſcilicet, non
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              Solis aut Terræ ſeſe componat; nam ſummi æſtus, vel ſummæ aquarum
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              elevationis terminus eſt Luna meridiana, tum in hoc, tum in oppoſito
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              hemiſphærio; principium verò eſt eadem Luna, Quadrante circuli di­
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              ſtans à Meridiano: Igitur Luna exiſtente in Meridiano, æſtus creſcere
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              deſinit, decreſcere incipit, remota vero Quadrante circuli à Meridiano,
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              hinc inde æſtus decreſcere deſinit, & creſcere incipit: rem ita fieri per
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              ſe conſtantiſſimum eſt, habeturque ex indubitatis Obſervationibus; licèt
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              autem per accidens fieri poſſit, vt crementum decremento inæquale ſit;
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              hoc tamen non obſtat, quin poſtero die dementum incipiat eadem hora
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              Lunari, ac proinde 48. minutis tardiùs, quàm pridie. </s>
              <s id="s.000351">Quid autem ad
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              hæc, Auguſtine mi, Terræ motus conferat, nemo capiat; cùm enim ea­
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              dem motus inæqualitas, eadem ſemper hora, eidem Æquatoris terreſtris
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              globi puncto inſit, idem ſemper effectus ex eadem inæqualitate, ea­
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              dem hora ſequi deberet: igitur eadem hora ſemper eſſet ſummum cre-</s>
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