Monantheuil, Henri de, Aristotelis Mechanica, 1599

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              à nobiliſſimis hominibus inuenta, & vſurpata ſunt, & nunc
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              ad vſus humanos perquam neceſſaria honeſtiſſimum quæ­
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              ſtum, & qualem agricultura dominis agricolis ſuppeditant.
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              <s id="id.000217">Quanquam non eo animo à nobis hæc dicuntur, vt ad eas
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              artes, quarum ſunt inſtrumenta, veſtras animi, corporiſque
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              vires ſuadeam conferatis: vos dico,</s>
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              Queis meliore luto finxit præcordia Titan:
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              <s id="id.000219">atque quos ad his altiora præmeditanda iamdudum euexit
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              animus, vbi tamen nihil aliud eſſet, quod ageretur, cur non
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              aliquod horum relaxamenti gratia etiam quæratis? </s>
              <s id="id.000220">vel ſi rei
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              familiaris exiguitas poſtulat, cum ijs agatis, potius, quam
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              nihil? </s>
              <s id="id.000221">Neque enim magis horum aliquod nobis indecorum
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              putare debemus: quam ſibi Aſcræus ille poëta,</s>
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              Qui alium ditem cernens, cum deeſt quod agatur,
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              Ipſe ſolum vertit tauris, & ſemina ponit.
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              <s id="id.000224">Sed eo animo hęc pręſertim
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              à me dicuntur, vt audacter
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              & ſine rubore aliquando ingrediamur officinas fabrorum
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              generis omnis, vt & inſtrumenta, & machinas quibus vtun­
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              tur in ſuis operibus conficiendis primum dignoſcamus, mi­
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              rificas ex iſta dignotione voluptates conſecuturi, maximè
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              cum eas, quæ magna vi pollent, ſummoſque habent vſus
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              cognouerimus, maiores adhuc multo poſtea percepturi, ſi
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              tantæ efficaciæ adiumenti que cauſas inueſtigantes inuene­
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              rimus, quod feciſſe Ariſtotelem non puduit, qui vno hoc li­
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              bello
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              certè iucundo & vtili edito tanta inge­
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              nij ſubtilitate atque diligentia perſecutus eſt, vt omnia ad
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              vnum principium, quod eſt circulus, reuocari poſſe inue­
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              nerit, & reuocanda eſſe non quidem leuibus probabilium
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              argumentorum: ſed grauiſſimis demonſtrationum geome­
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              tricarum momentis oſtenderit. </s>
              <s id="id.000225">Itaque ſi quis audito huius
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              libelli titulo, ſtatim ab huius lectione volens aufugere, inſu­
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              per pueriliter irrideat, quod regius mathematicarum ar­
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              tium profeſſor in rebus, vt putabit, viliſſimis philoſophari,
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              &
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              contenderit. </s>
              <s id="id.000226">Huic reſpondebimus, quod ali­
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              quando Heraclitum dixiſſe ferunt ijs, qui cum alioqui evm
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              vellent, quod forte in caſa furnaria caloris gratia ſedentem
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              vidiſſent, accedere temperarunt, & ingredi fidenter cum </s>
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