Viviani, Vincenzo, De maximis et minimis, geometrica divinatio : in qvintvm Conicorvm Apollonii Pergaei

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            illa APOLLONII reperta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s160" xml:space="preserve">Facilè etiam perſuadere ignarum me,
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            vel ipſius Arabici alphabeti, nec vnquam mihi tractatas, aut cogni-
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            tas noui libri figuras. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s161" xml:space="preserve">Eſto aiebant me tantùm collineaſſe ad eundem
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            cum APOLLONIO ſcopum (quamuis latè ſe fundat mea de MA-
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            XIMIS, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s162" xml:space="preserve">MINIMIS ratiocinatio) non ne plures vię eandem ducunt
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            Corinthum? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s163" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi ab eo penitus abeam, dum plura conſector
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            geometrica, emolumenti inde tamen aliquid accedet literis, ac eo
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            ſaltim nomine, quia nouum commendabitur.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s165" xml:space="preserve">Fateor autem, mihi alioquin pertinaci deditionem hæc exprimere
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            incipiebant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s166" xml:space="preserve">vehementiùs tamen a criores ſtimuli aliundè ac cedentes:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s167" xml:space="preserve">ſed digito compeſce labellum.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s169" xml:space="preserve">Inter hæc Borellus ſub octaua Iunij, ni fallor, Romam contendit,
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            cum ſuo illo diues noui APOLLONII viatico. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s170" xml:space="preserve">At ego delinita ob-
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            ſtinatione meis velut ad lucem diſponendis ſenſim incumbo, quod
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            Viris CCLL. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s171" xml:space="preserve">Senat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s172" xml:space="preserve">Arrighetto, ac Dato bona fide patefacio; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s173" xml:space="preserve">nec prę-
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            ſtantiſſimo Adoleſcenti Laurentio Magalotto celatum volui, inſimul
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            ratus, amicitiæ candori labem inferre, ſi hæc mea qualiacunque in-
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            uenta feliciſſimum, atque admirabile prorſus ingenium latuiſſent,
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            Mathemati cis non minus, quàm Philoſophicis, atque Anatomicis
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            ſtudijs impensè addictum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s174" xml:space="preserve">Iuriſprudentiæ ſacris initiatum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s175" xml:space="preserve">Muſis,
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            quà latinis, quà Etruſcis apprimè carum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s176" xml:space="preserve">ad omnia egregia æque na-
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            tum, nulliſque demum equeſtrium exercitationum decoribus deſtitu-
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            tum, qui ingenuum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s177" xml:space="preserve">ornatiſſimum Patricium decent, è cuius tam
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            clara Adoleſcentię Aurora fulgentiſſimum Virilitatis meridiem Patria
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            hæc meritò auguratur.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s179" xml:space="preserve">Sic pluteos, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s180" xml:space="preserve">ſcrinia compilans mea confuſas pagellas in melio-
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            rem ordinem digero, aptiora huic tractatui ſeligo, atque in claſſes
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            partita tribus diſtinguo faſciculis.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s182" xml:space="preserve">Sed interim agrum petens Solem cogor pati noxium, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s183" xml:space="preserve">immodi-
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            cum, qui febri ſtatim iniecta acutiſſima penè ad necem me afflixit;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s184" xml:space="preserve">fuitque dies Iunij decimus octauus cum quindenis alijs inter meos
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            egritudinum faſtos, magnis februalibus nimiùm quantùm nefaſtos. </s>
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            Diù inops virium omnem ſtudiorum curam abieceram: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s186" xml:space="preserve">nec caput,
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            nec mens conſtabat paginis recenſendis, quæ multo punice, multaq; </s>
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            litura indigebant, multa etiam perſcriptione; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s188" xml:space="preserve">quippe adumbraueram
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            meditationes, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s189" xml:space="preserve">confuſanea opera, nequid interim deperiret, tan-
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            tummodo innueram.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s191" xml:space="preserve">Neſcio autẽ quo pacto labores hi mei SERENISS. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s192" xml:space="preserve">LEOPOLDO
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            ſuboluere, qui partitè mox de tota illorum ratione, ac proceſſu à </s>
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