Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              Galilei ſcientiam falſitatis conuinceres, tuam tan­
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              <s id="s.000554">Ecquid-nam verò,
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              <s id="s.000555">Abſit hoc à me, optime virorum, qui habeo te po­
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              que ſinceritate viſa narrantem. </s>
              <s id="s.000556">Sed patietur ſanè
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              <s id="s.000557">Itaque cùm tua verba
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              relegens, deprehendam te nihil aliud tibi, tanquam
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              obſeruatum à te vindicare; quàm illud, quod iam re­
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              tuli,
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              Expertus ſum ego globum plumbeum vnius vnciæ ex
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              altitudine ſex pedum, ſiue diametrorum centum quatuorde­
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              cim cadentem, vncias totidem vltra æquilibrium, hoc eſt li­
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              bras ſeptem, & vncias treis in altera lance impoſitas ſuo
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              impetu eleuaſſe.
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              <s id="s.000558"> Itemque illud, quod poſteà impedi­
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              menta memorans,
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              Propria,
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              inquis,
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              experientia ipſe
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              edoctus ſum, qui adhibita omni induſtria globum vnius vn­
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              ciæ ex altitudine ſex pedum in lancem ſubiectam, viginti
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              quinque, aut triginta vicibus dimittens, ter ſolùm centrum
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              attingere, & pondus perfectè attollere potui.
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              Cùm, in­
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              quam, ita deprehendam, non cauſor tuam fidem,
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              quam cum perſuaſione aliqua non vera (re familiari </s>
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