Fabri, Honoré, Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, 1665
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              nendum ſit, eo dumtaxat fine hoc à me fiet, ad vberiorem explicationis
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              lucem extorquendam. </s>
              <s id="s.000027">Eminentiſſimus Princeps, eo animo te invitavit,
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              vt cùm de te multa à nobis inaudiiſſet, de rebus Philoſophicis diſſerentem
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              audiret; & non modico huiuſce rei deſiderio teneri ſe, nobis ſemel atque
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              iterum ſignificavit. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.000029"> Quid tandem à me expromi queat, quod Eminentiſſimi auri­
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              bus dignum ſit, profectò non liquet; quicquid enim, etiam cum aliquo
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              mentis niſu excogito, nugas inter & quiſquilias mihi ſemper huc vſque
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              reponendum eſſe viſum eſt, quaſi verò mea pluris faciam, quàm me? </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000031"> Dic, vt voles, illud ſaltem conſtat, quidquid vel ex tuis lu­
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              cubrationibus, vel ex tuo diſſerentis ore accepi, mihi ſummoperè pla­
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              cuiſſe: vnum tamen eſt, ne quid diſſimulem, quod in te aliqui deſide­
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              raſſent, ne ſcilicet tanto adversùs Copernicanam hypotheſim odio flagra­
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              res, in quo nonnullis paululùm excedere mihi viſus es; poteras haud du­
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              biè oppoſitam ſequi, quam & ego demiſſa fronte oſculor, cum iis præſer­
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              tim, qui Eccleſiaſticam vitam amplexi, Pontificiis ſtare debent decretis,
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              quibus in Galileum eiuſdem ſententiæ egregium & nunquam ſatis lauda­
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              tum propugnatorem animadverſum eſt; ſed non erat, quod tam alienum
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              animum oſtentares. </s>
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              Antim.
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              <s id="s.000033"> Vix me teneo, Auguſtine, dum hæc à te audio, præter omnem
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              expectationem meam: odium vocas contrarium ſenſum, abſque vllo im­
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              moderato affectu, in iis præſertim, in quibus opinari, cuique liberum
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.000034">Nullo, crede mihi, odio, nullo contentionis ſtudio ducor; ſed cùm
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              quædam in hypotheſi Copernicana diſpliceant, quæ in oppoſita nullum
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              mihi negotium faceſſunt, facere non potui, quia hanc illi anteponerem;
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              nunquam tamen inficias iturus, præclarum inventum eſſe; Copernicum
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              Aſtronomorum ſui temporis principem jure cenſeri, eumque Galileum
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              fuiſſe, qui nulli, quod ſciam, impar ingenio æſtimandus ſit, quique eo no­
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              mine vel maximam gloriam ſibi comparavit, quod argumenta, quibus
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              præfata hypotheſis impugnabatur, ita diluerit, vt maximo inde plauſu re­
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              lato, iiſdem illam potiùs confirmaſſe videatur, cùm vero certum ſit, nec
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              ipſe Galileus hoc inficietur, nullam demonſtrationem hucuſque excogi­
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              tatam fuiſſe, qua hypotheſis Copernicana probetur, ab antiqua illa, quæ
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              terram in mundi centro immobilem adſtruit, diſcedendum eſſe non puta­
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              vi; præſertim cùm hæc novis argumentis, ſi non demonſtrari, plurimùm
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              ſaltem confirmari poſſit, quibus, vt liberè dicam, quod ſentio, mihi valdè
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              perſuaſum eſt, hanc multis nominibus alteri eſſe anteponendam. </s>
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              Auguſtin.
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              <s id="s.000036"> Doctiſſimis illis, tui certè amantibus, & quos ſingulari etiam
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              cultu perſequeris, haud modicum riſum moveres, ſi hæc fortè à te audi­
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              rent, nec vllum mihi dubium eſt, quin per jocum, vel ironiam hæc à te
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              dici putarent, vtpote qui apprimè ſcias, Copernicanam hypotheſim iis
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              rationum momentis inſtructam eſſe, quæ vt demonſtrationem Geometri­
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              cam minimè adæquant, quod certè vltrò damus, ita proximè ad eam acce­
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              dunt, atque adeò communi Doctorum omnium conſenſu longè aliâ pro­
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              babiliorem jure cenſeri. </s>
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